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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

Requests for Proposals (RFPs) are just getting longer, more prolific and, too often, ignored. There has also been a shortening of booking windows almost throughout 2021. While booking windows are typically about 180 days, he was seeing RFP booking windows of more than 200 days in March and as few as 150 days in late September.

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

Smart Meetings

billion passengers in 2023, nearly reaching 2019 numbers, a year that saw 4.54 ADR for group bookings follow the same trend. Aggregate travel spend to increase the value of regular contract proposals. Air Travel Despite the chaos airlines have seen over recent years, passengers are not staying away. Consolidate and compromise.

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MICE sourcing volume on track to exceed pre-pandemic numbers by more than 17% 

Travel Daily Media

With more than 100,000 venues worldwide, Venuedirectory.com hosts the largest MICE booking and venue database in the UK, and the latest figures highlight the continued growth and confidence in the MICE sector. 38% of responses are addressed within the first hour, which is 9% lower than 2019.

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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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Top Reasons to Book NYC for Your Next Meeting

MeetingsNet

Our Convention Development team helps planners narrow down venue and hotel choices, distributes RFPs to a network of hospitality businesses, collects and reviews proposals—even coordinates site visits. Booking New York City guarantees record-breaking attendance. See why here. Learn more here.

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