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DMA West: Going Viral, What’s Trending and Crisis Communication

Smart Meetings

The September event brought destination marketers from Alaska to Texas to Riverside Hotel in Boise, Idaho, for networking, breakout sessions, a lesson in crisis communication and a taste (and a twirl) of downtown Boise’s booming Basque Cultural District. (If 80 percent of consumers want to book with minimal human involvement.

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5 Great Ways To Use SMS for Events and Retail Experiences

Eventtia

SMS communication comes with multiple challenges, such as managing user experience, capturing relevant data, ensuring timing, and maintaining a solid brand image and reputation. Next, we’ll discuss ways to leverage SMS communication for events and retail experiences. SMS notifications offer a simple, efficient solution to this issue.

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Language Interpretation Is the Next Wave in Virtual Meetings

Smart Meetings

KUDO and its partners work to create “personalized experiences and break the language barrier in meetings, business and events,” said Pia Decarsin, marketing communications manager at KUDO. KUDO, for instance, has 12,000 certified interpreters available through KUDO Marketplace , the company’s automated booking site.

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TIS – Tourism Innovation Summit selects the top 40 startups impacting tourism worldwide

Travel Daily Media

The Telefónica Award also went to the Hospitality sector rewarding Aphy, a robotic process automation tool in the sector, which facilitates the integration of systems and operational optimisation of hotels with a fully managed service.

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

AltexSoft Travel

A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. In most cases, tour operators book travel services from external suppliers. You’ll be able to send booking requests and receive confirmations and other status updates through your own system interface.

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5 Tips for Improving Accessibility for Meetings

Smart Meetings

When Keely Cat-Wells, founder and president of C-Talent , arrived to speak at an event about the importance of diversity and accessibility with her colleague, who was in a wheelchair, the two were met with a startling realization: the room that was booked for the event was entirely inaccessible. People have to take this seriously now.”.

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Leonardo partners with Asksuite’s AI-driven Chat and Reservation Assistant

Leonardo

Leonardo uses a proprietary search engine optimization strategy to boost website traffic for hotels looking to revamp their direct booking. We’re working with Asksuite to implement their booking assistant on hotel websites to take our hotel clients’ direct booking potential to the next level.