Smart Meetings

AUGUST 16, 2022

Canadian Association of Tour Operators (CATO) recently publicized a partnership with Tourism Cares , a non-profit organization focused on sustainability in travel and tourism. Partnerships like this will help meeting professionals, as the entire industry gravitates towards more sustainable travel. . About Tourism Cares .

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Dana Communications

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Tourism is fascinating. Tourism is exhilarating. Tourism is also easily affected. Those of us in the tourism industry know all too well that in the blink of an eye, a natural disaster can turn a beautiful top-selling destination into a disaster zone. With tourism after a natural disaster focus on the positive.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 6, 2022

Meeting profs in Charlotte, North Carolina, are meeting at the newly expanded Charlotte Convention Center for lunch, accompanied by a speech by the state’s House Budget Writer Jason Saine and the North Carolina Travel Industry Association lobbying team. The post How Planners Are Celebrating GMID 2022 appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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ETC Corporate

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

At an award ceremony hosted in Prague by Czech Tourism on November 15, the European Travel Commission (ETC) and Eurail B.V. honoured recipients at the second ever Best European Rail Tourism Campaign Awards. The awards recognise the marketing campaigns that best promoted rail travel as a sustainable tourism model.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

MAY 15, 2023

2023 is shaping up to be a great year for travel. Travel foundation predicts an increase in spending compared to 2022, and even when compared to levels in 2019. Travel foundation predicts an increase in spending compared to 2022, and even when compared to levels in 2019.

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Business Traveler USA

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The World Travel and Tourism Council is projecting that the travel and tourism sector’s contribution to the global economy could reach $8.6 trillion in 2022. WTTC figures show travel and tourism generated nearly $9.2 Travel of the future should be contactless while guaranteeing safety.”.

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ETC Corporate

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The outlook for travel to Europe is promising despite global pressures such as high inflation, the war in Ukraine and consequent energy crisis, and the looming economic recession. The latest data indicates a recovery of 75% of 2019 travel volumes to Europe in 2022.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 19, 2023

We’ll Always Have Paris…Until Beijing Takes Over A new study from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) shows Paris is the world’s most powerful “city destination” with almost $36 billion USD in 2022 in terms of direct GDP contribution to the city, but it also reveals that Paris will cede its place to up-and-coming Beijing by 2032.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 10, 2022

Ferguson came together at Union Market for its annual Travel Rally, held during U.S. Travel Association’s National Travel and Tourism Week—which happened this past week—where they discussed the region’s forecast and data from 2021. Travel, overseas visitation will likely not reach 2019 levels until 2025.

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Dana Communications

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The great travel recovery is here. As we all flipped the calendar to 2021, industry pundits were already forecasting when travel would return to pre-2020 levels. Travel Takes Flight The U.S. We recommend fully leaning into the travel upswing. The post The great travel recovery is here. The good news from the U.S.

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Solimar International

JUNE 24, 2022

Solimar International is proud to introduce our Summer 2022 Virtual Travel Writing and Sustainable Tourism Internship Cohort! This semester’s cohort features 18 talented individuals with a shared passion for sustainable development and tourism. She also enjoys traveling to new places and is an outdoors enthusiast.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 20, 2022

Destinations International (DI) has announced its 2022 Hall of Fame Inductees and Destination Organization Leadership Award recipients. DI’s Hall of Fame was created and designed to recognize those who’ve positively changed destination and travel marketing and management, made significant contributions to the industry.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Cisco predicts that over 82% of consumer online traffic will be in video form in 2022. Speaking of smartphone-created videos, brands will have increasing opportunities for user-generated content (UGC) in 2022. Destinations can encourage travelers to record and share their experiences on social media. Like what you see?

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 30, 2022

Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. sent a letter to Secretary Buttigieg with demands that meetings and travel planners dealing with participants missing days at events because of flight snafus might applaud.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2022

The free course in partnership with Tourism Cares discusses how to offset carbon emissions, find sustainable suppliers and offer equal opportunities for women. The best way to combat climate change is through large-scale action, which is where WeTravel Academy ’s new sustainable tourism course comes in. More Travel-focused Resources.

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ETC Corporate

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The European tourism sector successfully endured another challenging summer as worsening inflation and staff shortages threatened recovery. Encouraging data suggests a positive outlook for 2022, with the region expected to recover close to 75% of 2019 inbound travel volumes this year.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

That said, if you’ve been relying on significant third-party data for your advertising strategies, you’ll need to shift your efforts to first-party-focused methods in 2022. What does this mean for travel marketers in 2022? First-party cookies are still safe, allowing you to gain data from your website viewers on all browsers.

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The Abbi Agency

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Outdoor Media Summit showed content creators and brands how to promote responsible tourism. Over 175 media, content creators, marketers and big-name brands came together to collaborate and discuss the state of sustainable tourism. By Alli Williams. Let’s Get Political. Consider History of the Land.

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DCI

AUGUST 4, 2022

This year, the United Nations World Tourism Organization celebrates its annual World Tourism Day 2022 on September 27 with a clear theme: Rethinking Tourism. As we move forward, however, destinations looking beyond recovery efforts to the future of travel must showcase how they are rethinking tourism.

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DCI

JANUARY 6, 2022

While some travel industry trends are fleeting, others catch on and become part of everything we do. With all sorts of quick studies and snazzy headlines coming out as we begin 2022, we want to look past all of that to see what’s really going to be important this year. Here’s our look at 2022 travel trends.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 18, 2023

People are happy getting back to reclaim their life and their joy and people are traveling. Travel is something people are prioritizing. While these drawbacks have not yet put a dent in leisure travel demand, if this trend continues, travelers will reach a breaking point and some airline brands may be damaged.”

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Solimar International

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Solimar International is pleased to announce our Fall 2022 Travel Writing and Tourism Development Internship Cohort! This semester’s cohort comprises 14 inspired individuals with a common interest in sustainable development and tourism. Meet the Current Tourism Development Internship Cohort: Ellison Fellers.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

IMEX 2022 concluded its 11 th American run Thursday following a thunderous return with over 12,000 people in attendance at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, a 45% increase over last year’s event due to pandemic travel restrictions. — JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 13, 2022. meetsmart pic.twitter.com/xY7qsyppLz.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Advocacy within the travel, tourism and hospitality industries takes on many forms. Smart Meetings has collected a list of advocacy stories from 2022 and we are all excited to see even more in the new year. Read More : 2022 Smart Women in Meetings: Visionary. Nonprofit Makes Meetings Work with Innovative Software.

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Dana Communications

MARCH 14, 2022

The past two years have taken the travel sector on a wild ride—from brutal decimation in 2020 to the renaissance of the road trip in 2021 to the growing, but guarded, optimism of today. So we’re exploring where that leaves us in the interim by considering the question: “Is the rise of regional tourism here to stay?”. The short answer?

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The post Event tourism market to progress at a CAGR of 4% between 2022-2032 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. The global event tourism market size is expected to reach USD 2.1 Trillion in 2032, to surge at CAGR of 4% during forecast period 2022-2032. Different types of event tourism.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 16, 2022

Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. AmEx Global Travel Financials Show Strong Business Travel Recovery. airlines” shows that in the second quarter of 2022, “the demand for business travel is very strong.”.

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ETC Corporate

JULY 8, 2021

Improvements in vaccination rates and the introduction of the EU Digital COVID Certificate provides hope for tourism rebound in Europe for the summer months. Intra-European trips are expected to account for over 80% of Europe’s travel in 2021. We therefore believe that safe travel is possible this summer.

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Travel Daily Media

APRIL 8, 2024

The post The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) publishes new GSTC MICE Criteria appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. The Global Sustainable Tourism Council® (GSTC®) is pleased to announce that the GSTC MICE Criteria have been published and are available to the public for non- commercial use.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The post ATM 2024 to explore the full spectrum of travel and tourism appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. Revenue in the global travel and tourism market is projected to reach $854.7 Allied Market Research valued the global business travel market at $689.7 billion in 2022.

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Travel Daily News

APRIL 4, 2023

CAPE TOWN – Leisure travel, and particularly safari, is driving the recovery of travel and tourism in Africa. This according to the Africa Travel Week Trends report released this week at World Travel Market Africa , being held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre this week.

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ETC Corporate

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Atout France has joined ETC as a full member to collaborate on the renewal and revival of European tourism. ETC is proud to welcome the France Tourism Development Agency on board to share best practice and work together for all Europeans.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Global DMC Partners (GDP), the network of independent destination management companies and event service providers, has recently unveiled its 2022 Global Destination Index , which highlights the most popular meeting and incentive destinations around the world, according to booked and pending business across its worldwide partners.

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Tourism eSchool

JANUARY 31, 2023

Home Regenerative Tourism vs Sustainable Tourism – The future of our industry, traveller and planet By Nic Cooper, Regenerative Tourism Specialist Published on February 1, 2023 As an industry, we have a clear understanding that the conscious traveller is no longer ‘niche’, but mainstream.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The post TIS2022 to define the future of global tourism appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. TIS – Tourism Innovation Summit 2022, the technology event for travel and tourism professionals, returns to Seville (Spain) from 2 to 4 November.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Since June, however, borders that had closed in March of last year have begun to open back up for business travel. While tourism has not yet resumed in full, international destinations are developing plans to reopen to tourists in the final months of 2021 and at the start of new year. border openings. Here’s an update.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The post TIS – Tourism Innovation Summit selects the top 40 startups impacting tourism worldwide appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. A dozen startups have been recognised at the Touristech Startup Fest 2023, the global entrepreneurship competition hosted every year by TIS – Tourism Innovation Summit.

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