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Sustaining the Resilience of Community-Based Tourism Initiatives in Brazil

Solimar International

This paradigm shift reinterprets tourism models, emphasizing consciousness, autonomy, and bottom-up strategies while detaching from predatory practices. Community-Based Tourism (CBT) exemplifies sustainable tourism, promoting local development through social justice, resource redistribution, sustainability, and empowerment.

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The Top 7 Event Industry Trends for 2024 

Bizzaboo

Maintaining a Commitment to DE&I and Measuring Impact As the executive director of Tourism Diversity Matters, Greg DeShields is laser-focused on helping the industry create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive events. I think the extent of our networking in the early days was a networking lunch,” Olerich explained. “We

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Destination spotlight Bern, Switzerland: Site visit from 28–30 August 2020 for Event Planners Talk e-conference

The MICE Blog

There are products made from recycled materials, and attendees can visit the factories of these products or a national park to become involved in corporate volunteering. Between 2009–2011, the property was completely refurbished and reopened in 2011. We also have the ‘Clean & Safe Label’ from Switzerland Tourism.

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The New Economic Significance Study: Making Sense of the Numbers

MeetingsNet

economy, these meetings generated: • $325 billion in direct spending • $104 billion in federal, state and local taxes • a $446 billion contribution to the Gross Domestic Product. Direct spending on meetings increased 23 percent since 2009 when Oxford Economics conducted its first study on the economic significance of the meetings industry.

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Airline Marketing and Advertising Use Cases from American Airlines, Ryanair, Air France, and Others

AltexSoft Travel

At the bare minimum, the same products are marketed to customers (leisure and business), and distributors differently. So, the aim of this article is to explain how airlines market their products. Customers are the buyers of travel products. Now let’s talk about the challenges airlines face in marketing their products.

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5 Ways the Meetings Industry is Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

” For these reasons, millennials value networking over almost any other aspect of events. But make no mistake, the networking is there: over 3,000 face-to-face meetings were scheduled at C2 2017 alone. since 2009, but the total number of attendees at these meetings has grown 22.7%.

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Travel Payments Integration: Hands-On Experience with Solutions for OTAs and Other Resellers

AltexSoft Travel

More than two-thirds of sales in travel and tourism are made via the Internet, and the share of online vs offline bookings will only grow in the coming years. A merchant of record (MoR) is a business entity that actually sells products to end customers. So the ability to accept online payments is becoming vital for any travel business.

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