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Travel Destination Fascination in 2024 & Beyond

Motivation Excellence

Our travel planning team has barely been able to come up for air as they continue to be tasked with knocking out proposals for a wide variety of destinations around the world. We think the demand for international travel will continue as we already have programs going to destinations such as Paris and Argentina in 2025.

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Community-based proposals sought for East Maui Tourism Management Pilot Program

Travel Daily News

MVCB is currently seeking proposals from the East Maui community with innovative, community-driven management projects to address tourism’s impacts at highly trafficked hotspot areas identified in the Maui Destination Management Action Plan (DMAP).

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Labor Double-Whammy for Hotels Affects Planners, Too

MeetingsNet

Jan Freitag, national director of hospitality for hotel-industry analyst CoStar, said in this article from SmartBrief that although further growth is expected in hotels’ revenue per available room in 2024 and 2025, hotels are worried about increased expenses. Labor costs are a significant driver of overall expenses.

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CWT Study: Business Travel Costs Are Still Going Up, Slightly

Smart Meetings

In 2022, the average global ticket price rose to $749, a rise from its 2019 level of $670, which the study has attributed to the continuing shortage of pilots, a dearth that is expected to grow to 34,000 by 2025, and supply chain issues affecting manufacturing, maintenance, repair and overhaul of planes. Consolidate and compromise.

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Prague to celebrate 70th Anniversary of winning Nobel Prize by hosting World Chemical Congress

Travel Daily Media

In the Hague, the Netherlands, representatives of the Czech and Slovak Chemical Society and the Prague Convention Bureau, the umbrella organization for the Prague meetings industry, presented he proposal that received the strongest support in a secret ballot of delegates of all national organizations of IUPAC member states.

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ASEAN Tourism Ministers approve professional standards to strengthen MICE

Travel Daily Media

We worked with partner agencies such as Thailand’s Department of Tourism, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, MICE-related associations, and educational institutions to draft a professional standards proposal for 11 job roles – 1. Project Manager, 2. Production Manager, 3. Show Manager, 4. Event Coordinator, 5. Marketing Coordinator, 6.

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Travel and Tourism Trends in U.S. and Canada

Smart Meetings

Public engagement sessions are held periodically to give local residents the chance to ask questions and voice any concerns they may have on proposed policies. Canada has a very aggressive immigration plan over the next few years with the ability to accommodate up to 500,000 new people each year until 2025. “In

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