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Smart Moves in Hawaii, Las Vegas and More

Smart Meetings

Gardner has more than 13 years working in hospitality sales and marketing—specifically with independent hotels—most recently as regional vice president of sales for Oxford Collection Hotels. Chris White Fairmont Scottsdale Princess has named White director of sales and marketing. based in Bellevue, Washington.

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Smart Moves in Reno, Paradise Coast and More

Smart Meetings

He brings over 30 years of expertise in the travel and tourism industry and has served in executive roles local to the region for 15 years. Peter Falke Peter Falke, Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal Falke takes on the role of director of sales and marketing for Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal.

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Bouncing Back: Tourism After a Natural Disaster

Dana Communications

Once these needs are met, recovery marketing efforts step in – through agencies and Direct Marketing Organizations (DMOs) with clear-cut messaging that tactfully acknowledges the devastation. Let travelers know about business re-openings, improvements and steps being taken to make the destination more resilient in the future.

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West Coast DMOs Rollout Alliance

Smart Meetings

The pandemic has been a very rough time for the nation’s destination marketing organizations , as it has for the hospitality and meetings industry as a whole. A total of 15 DMOs—second- and third-tier markets, but also majors like L.A. On the West Coast, at least, their response has been unprecedented: working together.

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How Did You Get Started in the Events Industry?

Endless Events

I was building websites and was able to find a way to make money doing that for a guy who had a marketing company and was also the dean at our local college of communications.” . I spoke there for the first time in 2005 or 2006 and had a good 12-year run on the show. Come 1993, and I was getting into web design. Network Early. “Be

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Global Air Capacity in 2022 Will Look a Lot Like 2015

Business Traveler USA

Capacity flown in 2020 was reduced to levels last seen in 2005. Areas with strong domestic markets – in particular in the US and China – showed accelerated recovery this year. International traffic experienced a slower recovery, with many nations restricting travel until the fourth quarter of 2021. percent, compared to 2019.

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Business travel spending plummets by 60% amid pandemic

Travel Daily Media

The post Business travel spending plummets by 60% amid pandemic appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. The Covid-19 pandemic turned the global travel and tourism industry upside down in 2020, grounding airlines, emptying hotels, and stopping almost all business and leisure travel for months.

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