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Meetings Uncovered

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Transportation Secretary Buttigieg Asks Airlines for Hotels, Meal Vouchers. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has sent a letter to nine major airlines saying that they should pay for meals and hotels when travelers face delays or cancellations. Read more here.

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Get Around Green in Orange County

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Sustainable Transportation in Anaheim Reducing carbon emissions in transportation has been at the forefront of conversations in the meeting industry, and Anaheim has been taking it seriously. Not only for the day-to-day public transportation system in the city, but also for visitors as well.

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How Technology Can Help Us Build a Greener Events Industry

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We are also seeing increased usage of innovations in the audio-visual industry such as holographic projections, virtual, and augmented reality that can deliver captivating experiences and minimize physical build-out and transport. Transportation: One of our biggest challenges as an industry is how we approach transportation for events.

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Meeting Profs Travel Report: Can ‘Broken’ U.S. Airlines Be Fixed? Senate Hearing Spotlights Consumer Frustrations, Airline Accountability

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Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, “Enhancing Consumer Protections and Connectivity in Air Transportation,” William J. In 2020, the Department of Transportation received nearly 30,000 airline refund complaints, more than a 4,600% increase from 2019. In a March 23 testimony before the U.S.

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This Week in Travel: Denver Ditches Mask Mandates

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Denver’s public health order expiration does not impact the federal requirement for face coverings on public transportation, including public transit networks, airplanes, buses, trains, taxis, Ubers and Lyfts. The order, requiring face coverings indoors or proof of vaccination in lieu of them will not be extended. Rachel Bendick.

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CWT Study: Business Travel Costs Are Still Going Up, Slightly

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increase (forecast: 18.5%), ground transportation increased by 9.8% (forecast: 7.3%), and meetings and events, measured by the average cost per attendee per day, increased by 58.1% (forecast: 25%). According to Internal Air Transport Association, airlines are expected to carry 4.35 In 2022, air travel saw a 72.2%

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Sustainable event ideas in Lucerne

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Available exclusively to non-Swiss residents, it provides unlimited access to all modes of public transport throughout Switzerland. After a scenic boat tour, a vegan lunch, and networking on board, we arrived in Vitznau to take our next mode of transport, the Rigi Bahn.