Business Traveler USA

AUGUST 18, 2021

The majority of business travelers (61 percent) report having already taken their first multiday domestic business trip of the year, but international business travel is slower to recover. This according to a survey of 1,700 experienced travelers by Global Rescue, a travel risk and crisis response provider. Business travel owes the comeback to rising COVID-19 vaccination rates and the easing of government quarantine and testing mandates.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 18, 2021

The second place winner of an algorithmic bias bounty contest sponsored by Twitter showed how Twitter’s image-cropping algorithm cropped out people with white or grey hair. (Courtesy of Twitter ). This year’s jointly held hacker conferences Black Hat, for cybersecurity professionals, and Def Con, held the first week in August in Last Vegas, were “significantly rejiggered” in response to the rapid spread of the Delta variant, according to The Washington Post , with in-person attendance down to ab

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Leonardo

AUGUST 18, 2021

Live CMS is a flexible content management system that improves your team’s workflow with a centralized approach to managing direct channels. Whether you’re building a multi-property brand.com or an individual hotel website, Live CMS has a host of hospitality-centric features and functionality to manage all your marketing needs. We empower hotel brands to tell their story and stand out from the crowd.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 18, 2021

This mural, at 38th and Chicago Avenue South in Minneapolis, is one of the many pieces of street art on the Urban Art Mapping George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art database. (Jean Beller/Unsplash). When the COVID-19 pandemic first made its way around the world in 2020, a group of researchers from the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis started working on a database of pandemic-related street art.

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TravelBoom and sister agency, The Brandon Agency, release new consumer sentiment study on travel amidst the COVID-19 second wave

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Travel Daily News

AUGUST 18, 2021

Live educational event with networking opportunities for hoteliers, short-term rental managers and serviced accommodation providers who want to grow their businesses independently.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dzidra Junior, who left MGM Resorts International for a new role at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, Colorado, said she now has “all this extra time on my hands to focus on self-care.” Dzidra Junior had a tentative start — as a temp in the sales department at the Las Vegas Hilton — to what has turned out to be a long and successful career in the hospitality and events industry.

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Travel Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2021

The new mandate comes as destinations, attractions and government begin reacting to the Delta variant surge.

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Travel Daily News

AUGUST 18, 2021

62% of European travel managers have sustainable travel programmes; 20% rely on their TMC to ensure programmes are sustainable. Business Travel Show Europe launches Ethical Travel Trail, and Wellness Retreat makes a welcome return.

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Business Traveler USA

AUGUST 18, 2021

Canada’s government has announced development of a COVID-19 vaccine certification for Canadian citizens who have been fully vaccinated to use while traveling internationally. The federal government is working with provinces and territories to establish a proof of vaccination system, according to a statement from Marco Mendicino, minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship. “We are working actively with the provinces and territories on a secure, pan-Canadian proof of vaccination for i

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AltexSoft Travel

AUGUST 18, 2021

Pricing in the airline industry is often compared to a brain game between carriers and passengers where each party pursues the best rates. Carriers aim at selling tickets as expensive as possible — while still not losing consumers to competitors. Passengers want to buy flights at the lowest cost — while not missing the chance to get on board. All this makes flight prices fluctuant and hard to predict.

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The evolution of the DMC industry requires that it embark upon a renewed relationship with clients that is built upon transparency, trust, and understanding.

IT&CM Events

AUGUST 18, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked new challenges for the global business events sector. For a sector that was heavily dependent on physical interaction, the onset of the pandemic spurred the need for innovation and evolution. To remain at the top of mind and ready businesses for the new normal, industry brands and players had to adopt a growth mindset, accommodate multi-channel approaches and encourage remote participation while leveraging on technology.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 18, 2021

In June, Women in Association: Leaders of Tomorrow , had over 70 people tune in digitally and attend in-person to brainstorm actions that could advance women and activate a future-shaping leadership mindset. The event created in collaboration with BEAM and powered by Marina Bay Sands , saw experienced and emerging leaders in the Asia Pacific region discuss the hurdles women in leadership need to overcome and the development of women leaders.

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Travel Daily News

AUGUST 18, 2021

Three-day live event being planned to include in-person and virtual events. Africa Travel Week to include headline shows – WTM Africa and ILTM Africa.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 18, 2021

Razlan Manjaji, Head of Global Events at South China Morning Post (SCMP). The pandemic had stirred up transformative changes for the events industry in the past year. Managing that change is paramount in these disruptive times for organisations. We spoke with Razlan Manjaji , Head of Global Events at South China Morning Post (SCMP), on how they not only survived over this time but thrived as they increased their events four-fold, while decreasing costs and doubling revenue.

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Special Events

AUGUST 18, 2021

Special events business news

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I-Meet

AUGUST 18, 2021

AMEXGBT AWARDED PATENTS FOR THEIR TRAVEL MARKETPLACE. [link].

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The Abbi Agency

AUGUST 18, 2021

Luxury-Oriented Millennial Travelers. After years in which the Millennial Generation has alternately been the object of bemused head-shaking by older generations or found itself blamed for the demise of beloved retail chains , consumers born between 1981 and 1996 now find themselves in a new role: They’re an economic powerhouse driving the growth of luxury travel.

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IT&CM Events

AUGUST 18, 2021

When the pandemic put the brakes on travel around the globe, business travellers had to make the drastic shift from in-person meetings and events to congregating in virtual spaces on the Internet. But rising vaccination rates and gradually opening borders are giving event planners hope that face-to-face meetings and events will be able to increasingly take place, albeit on an initial domestic and regional basis.

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Business Traveler USA

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Transportation Security Administration has announced an extension of the current mask mandates on airplanes, trains and buses and at airports and train stations through Jan. 18. The current transportation mask requirement was set to run out Sept. 13. The news comes as COVID-19 cases linked to the highly transmissible delta variant have surged nationwide. “The purpose of TSA’s mask directive is to minimize the spread of COVID-19 on public transportation,” an agency spokesperson to

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Travel Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2021

Time for ‘pleasantries’ is over, decisions have to be made.

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