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Southwest Commits to Groups with Simplified Booking, Investment in Routes and People

Smart Meetings

Dave Harvey, vice president and chief sales officer for the airline, explained that the new product makes booking and/or changing names for group flights—something that could have taken weeks of manual confirmations, approvals and information gathering in the past—a self-service task with the potential to be condensed into a few minutes.

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Is the RFP Dead? Long Live Next Evolution of Booking

Smart Meetings

Hotel sales teams are barraged with automated forms, lean staffs and limited information to determine what the customer really needs. There has also been a shortening of booking windows almost throughout 2021. Some of the shopping around could also be connected to increased in rates above 2019 for 2022 dates and beyond.

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Mike Dominguez’s Vision for Hospitality Restaffing

Smart Meetings

Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) President and CEO Mike Dominguez is bullish about the demand for group bookings and the path for building up the capacity to service meeting professionals sending RFPs in a compressed market with shrinking booking windows. Fast Ramp Up.

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Mike Dominguez’s Vision for Hospitality Restaffing

Smart Meetings

Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) President and CEO Mike Dominguez is bullish about the demand for group bookings and the path for building up the capacity to service meeting professionals sending RFPs in a compressed market with shrinking booking windows. Fast Ramp Up.

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Is AI Putting Our Humanity at Risk?

Convene by PCMA

As artificial intelligence develops, the real threat is not that we will lose our jobs to robots, author Douglas Rushkoff predicted in 2019. When we used those words to introduce Convene ’s August cover story in 2019, we had no way of knowing just how bumpy things would become barely six months later as COVID spread across the globe.

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

AltexSoft Travel

For the record, the business developed into a global company operating its airline and dealing with multi-million revenue streams, went through a compulsory liquidation in 2019, and was relaunched as an online-only travel agency in 2020. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers.

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TIS2022 to define the future of global tourism

Travel Daily Media

Accenture, Amadeus, CaixaBank, City Sightseeing Worldwide, The Data Appeal Company, EY, Mabrian, MasterCard, Telefónica Empresas, Convertix, Keytel, PastView and Tourijobs are some of the many firms that will showcase their proposals to guide the tourism sector on the road to innovation and digitisation.

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