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Smart Moves in The Palm Beaches, Los Angeles and More

Smart Meetings

Segarra joined the destination in 2022 as chief marketing officer and since then accelerated the organization’s widest range of promotional efforts in their history, resulting in record visitation rates and a $10 billion economic impact in the local tourism markets. He has held leadership positions in assistance operations for over a decade.

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TWT: Business Travel Rebounds, New Sustainability Tool for CVBs

Smart Meetings

” Say Travelers. Travelers planning both business and leisure trips are discounting inflation as a reason to cancel planned trips, says the Summer 2022 Traveler Safety and Sentiment Survey. According to the survey 79% of travelers surveyed said that inflation would not cause them to cancel their plans.

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Travel Startups and Tourism Trends to Invest In

AltexSoft Travel

Shifts in travel patterns opened up new niches for startups, giving them a unique opportunity to harness the emerging trends and address important but so far unmet customer needs. In this article, we’ll mention the budding tourism trends and give six examples of startups that capitalize on the changes in the industry.

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Remaking the Travel Experience

Carrousel Travel

At that time, we also had national unity in remaking the travel experience to ensure our own and fellow travelerssafety. I don’t have any illusions of national unity now but want to draw some comparisons to the stress we face in travel and tourism with Covid and the aftermath of 9/11.

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India logs in strong recovery in MICE business

Travel Daily Media

The post India logs in strong recovery in MICE business appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. The pandemic brought the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conference and Exhibitions) sector to a standstill for most of 2020.

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Travel Tech To Maximize Your Destination Marketing Efforts

DCI

Travel tech has evolved enormously over the past year, meeting the needs of a challenging new travel landscape. From contactless check-ins to restaurant orders, this technology has passed from a fun new innovation to a must-have in the tourism industry. It’s not some Star Trek fantasy.

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APAC business travellers eager to restart trips: SAP Concur

Travel Daily Media

Respondents to the survey carried out in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand believe that the current travel hiatus is hurting their careers ? While they hope to restart their in-person meetings soon ? by impeding their business goals ? and personal lives.

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