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Summer 2024 Travel Trends with Meaning

Smart Meetings

Make your summer meetings meaningful and memorable with these tips and trends Summer is approaching fast and meeting professionals want to stay up to date on every seasonal trend. With these tips and recommended venues, your summer meeting or event will be memorable, meaningful and even give back to the community.

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Accessible Tourism – Truths, Tips & Trends

Dana Communications

sensory-friendly live performances, barrier-free arts & culture destinations and boundless playgrounds, as well as accessible recreational trails and parks. Fully accessible multi-day group tours with inclusive accommodations and specially trained guides are becoming more frequent. These changes can be seen globally as well.

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Corporate Travel That Works: New Trends

Smart Meetings

From our own research, third-party sources and knowledge from Travelport’s TMC customers, we’ve identified six trends that are waking up the sector and driving big changes in corporate travel. For many, this could mean handier departure times, meeting schedules or incorporating more time for recovery after a long flight or train ride.

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Business Travel Strikes Back, A New Company Culture Dawns

Smart Meetings

In the face of doubt, however, business travel has emerged with critical and pivotal strategies for recovery in its pocket and a renaissance of travel in its sights, as evidenced by American Express Global Business Travel (GBT)’s white paper, “ Why Business Travel Is the Center of the New Company Culture.” The Great Reprioritization.

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Sign of the Times? GE Sells its Famed Training Facility

MeetingsNet

A private group of investors has purchased Crotonville, General Electric’s management-training facility for nearly 70 years, for $22 million and will operate the suburban New York venue as a conference center—which means that business groups can meet in the same spaces that legendary GE CEO Jack Welch educated his management teams.

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Feeling Good: 2022 Wellness Tourism Trends

Dana Communications

First, let’s note that wellness itself is one of the key travel trends for 2022. Keep an eye on these trends—and capitalize on them! Here are some of the top 2022 wellness tourism trends, in which we’re seeing US travelers: Actively seeking out domestic destinations closer to home , where they feel safer.

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Hot Trends in the Land of the Rising Sun

Smart Meetings

Insights into a Changing Culture. Takatani provided the following insights into other Japanese trends, based on his experience with Fujisankei and travel agencies. Taxi fares have dipped in the Tokyo area by about 10 percent recently due to more people opting for subway trains and buses. Kazutoshi Takatani.

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