Contactless Control Walking over to the bed, you take a seat and once again grab your phone. Opening the hotel app, you adjust the temperature and lighting of the room, before getting comfortable. You have just over an hour until your dinner meeting…
TUI’s optimism for 2021 should be noted with caution amid refund confusion and UK’s air bridges putting strain on industry recovery, says GlobalData
Following the announcement of TUI’s Q3 2020 results, Johanna Bonhill-Smith, Travel & Tourism Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers her view: “The news that bookings for Summer 2021 are up by 145% at TUI strike a note of…
Baby Boomers Deserve Big Attention From Businesses Too
Jill Filipovic argued in her new book – OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind – that millennials have been going through tougher economic circumstances than any other generations since the Great Depression. I am neither a millenni…
Hotel Quality Lab: Exploring Service Excellence
Against the backdrop of relentlessly evolving consumer demands and technological disruption, what does service quality mean today? What is required to maintain the prerequisite momentum? And how can hoteliers reconcile brand standards with the varyi…
Travel Advisors Say Clients Are Booking 2021 Vacations Closer to Home
Generally speaking, travel advisors say they are having a modicum of success booking destinations closer to home, primarily for 2021. “My clients are slowly but surely starting to book travel again,” said Jemica Archer of TruBlue Travels. “Most of m…
Harvard researchers discover a surprising reason why Zoom and Skype won’t kill business travel
It might actually do some good for the world, says a new study out of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Growth Lab, which finds a direct link—of causation, not correlation—between a country’s incoming business travel and its economic growth. The more bus…
Hotels pivoting toward more hybrid meetings
Groups are canceling or postponing their meetings and events due to concerns about COVID-19, but hoteliers are finding creative solutions to use technology to host the event in a safe fashion. Corporate clients are increasingly asking about hybrid m…
WTTC Calls For Leadership From Pm Boris Johnson, And Strong International Coordination To Save The Travel & Tourism Sector And The Global Economy
London, UK – The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has urgently called on the UK government for strong leadership and unprecedented international collaboration, to save the struggling Travel & Tourism sector and recover the millions of jobs alre…
Cvent Sees Record-Breaking Registration for Cvent CONNECT US
TYSONS, Va. – Cvent, a market-leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, announced its all-star lineup of speakers for its two-day virtual Cvent CONNECT US conference on August 25-26, which is set to be the largest gathering of m…
Business Travel Recovery will be Uneven; Innovative and Creative Companies Will Take the Lead
Alexandria, Virginia – The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) – the world’s largest professional association – hosted well-regarded futurist and trendcaster Dr. Shawn DuBravac for the first webinar in its GBTA Collaboratory 2020 series. DuBra…