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Jul 12, 2019

Today, travelers have the ability to review and rate virtually every aspect of their travel experience and prospective travelers base many of their purchase decisions on what others are saying. Consumer satisfaction plays a strong role in the evaluat...

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Jul 10, 2019

The number of international travelers is expected to almost double by 2036, and as this number grows, so too do the demands on the hospitality industry. This is a period of unprecedented change, where advances in cloud and analytical technology meet ...

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Jul 08, 2019

Decisionmaking is a cognitive process defined by psychologists as the selection of a course of action from multiple alternatives (e.g. what to eat, where to shop). John Dewey, the pragmatic philosopher and psychologist, introduced the first decision ...

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Jun 29, 2019

The United Kingdom is rich in cultural heritage; it offers landscapes of outstanding natural beauty as well as vibrant city life and urban attractions. From the one thousand years of history of the Tower of London to the unique Giant’s Causeway...

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Jun 28, 2019

Despite new technology allowing for free international calls and video conferencing, business travel is still an integral part of corporate life. A recent survey by Travelodge found that over half of employees in Britain say they regularly travel for...

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Jun 27, 2019

Learners experience difficulties because even if vocabulary has been learned well, the words have been learned as individual units (e.g. “put” with several possible translations into the native tongue of learner) while now in context only...

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Jun 26, 2019

How do you take a mature travel programme to
the next level? It’s a challenge many organisations
spending upward of £2m a year on corporate travel are
struggling with.

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Jun 25, 2019

There are so many travel apps out there that it can be tricky to know where to start. Which ones can you trust 100% with employee data? Which ones will allow you to plan a programme that’s compliant with your travel policy? Below are some popul...

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Jun 24, 2019

We believe that data-driven marketing shouldn’t be confusing. Every company should know what works for their campaigns in order to make more ROI-driven decisions. At Directive, we not only craft customized campaigns for your unique marketing ob...

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Jun 20, 2019

With business travel rated one of the five biggest expenses
for a business of any size, it is hardly surprising that
cost-control remains a high priority for travel managers
and business owners today

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Jun 20, 2019

We live in an increasingly global world; new markets are always on the horizon, and with new markets comes the need for expanded services. One aspect of this globalization is the rise in business travel, which shows no signs of slowing down. The busi...

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Jun 15, 2019

Driven by a desire to help you, help travellers, we felt a good starting point was to sense-check where we are as an industry and identify what would be most beneficial going forward in creating a rigorous research process with an emerging evidence-b...

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Jun 15, 2019

Countless papers and articles over the past months and years have outlined dynamic pricing, not just for the travel industry. Interestingly, the airline industry has always been somewhat of a leader in dynamic pricing as it is a concept that airlines...

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Jun 12, 2019

We know that cutting costs and making savings wherever possible  is on every company’s agenda. And of course, every business strives to get the best possible hotel rates when its employees travel. But are you saving as much money as you co...

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Jun 12, 2019

When searching for hotels online, the choice of booking options can be overwhelming. Prices differ from site to site and from day to day; hotels are fully booked on one site but not another, and inclusions vary considerably too. That’s where a ...

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Jun 10, 2019

As consumers increasingly research, shop and book travel on multiple digital platforms, travel marketers have amped up their digital advertising budgets, their focus on measuring the true impact of their ad spend and identifying what is working, and ...

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Jun 06, 2019

A recent study in the UK by the Dynamic Currency Conversion Forum showed unclaimed travel expenses cost business travellers an average of £142 (R2,621) per international trip. The study also found that fewer than one in eight corporate travelle...

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Jun 04, 2019

Most People Travel because they want to see
their families and friends who live far away. Invitations from families and friends are seldom so
you will decide to travel just to see them.

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Jun 04, 2019

As one of the world’s largest economic sectors, Travel & Tourism creates jobs, drives exports, and generates prosperity across the world. The sector, comprised of a wide range of industries, aims to serve and support domestic, international...

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Jun 03, 2019

Since its very first stages the tourism industry has always
represented a global strategic market. However, due to
the post-industrial society’s changes in terms of
collective needs, much has changed and new business
...

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May 31, 2019

Controlling your business travel costs doesn’t need to be a complicated process. By following a few simple rules, you too can keep track of your travel budget and save valuable time for your business. To help you, we’ve put together five ...

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May 28, 2019

For the most part, booking flights for work isn’t like booking flights for your next personal trip. In business travel, time is money. And quite often, travel time can be dead time, with your travellers having to get to the airport, wait around...

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May 22, 2019

Air travel and the associated loyalty program has become a commodity in today’s world. Loyalty program, also known as FFP (Frequent Flyer Program), is one area which has shown tremendous growth, since first such initiative was launched 40 years...

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May 18, 2019

Booking a hotel room for a business trip isn’t the same as booking a room for a business trip. There are so many things to consider: will your traveller need to check-in early so they can freshen up before a meeting? Will they need a workspace ...

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May 15, 2019

Data specialists from both ARC and Expedia Group analyzed ARC’s global flight data and Expedia Group’s lodging trends to distill actionable information to help people save money on travel. While it’s impossible to guarantee when to ...

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May 15, 2019

The Travel & Tourism sector, which accounts for 10.4% of global GDP, is a cornerstone of the global economy; creating jobs, driving exports, and generating prosperity across the globe. As the world urbanises and cities cement their roles as globa...

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May 13, 2019

The 2018 U.S. traveler is more informed and uses more media and sources of information than ever before in the history of travel. That’s why Miles funds independent research biannually to help our clients make the most of their marketing dollar...

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May 10, 2019

Tourism into the GCC has grown considerably in recent years as the region continues to rapidly develop its retail, hospitality, entertainment, F&B and cultural offerings. Experts note this growth will only continue as more human and capital resou...

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May 08, 2019

When building out a Travel Policy, it is important to understand your goals for cost savings, as well as your traveler’s buying behavior towards compliance. Focusing on only one area will dramatically reduce your opportunity to run an effective...

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May 08, 2019

In many organizations, employee travel policies are severely enforced, as if every employee was a criminal in the making. In this hostile environment, companies may distance competent, loyal and hard-working people, resulting in significant retention...

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May 03, 2019

The good news is that the data about customer interaction sits with you. But the big question is – what to do with this big data that can deliver value to the end customer and the travel service provider as well. The following represents a most...

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May 02, 2019

Humanitarians travel to save lives and to help others. That’s why it’s essential that the trip goes smoothly. Raptim is in the business of organizing and preparing humanitarian travel. So, we have some insider knowledge on how to make sur...

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Apr 30, 2019

The State of the American Traveler tracking survey, shows that 32.7 percent of leisure travelers expect to increase the number of trips they will take this year. This is down from 37.6 percent one year earlier. Leisure travel spending expectations al...

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Apr 27, 2019

The future of air travel is here. Already over the last few years, we have seen a significant shift towards more convenience for travelers, from the booking process to crossing the border at their destination..

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Apr 26, 2019

The hospitality and leisure (H&L) industry is big and diverse; it has traditionally claimed some of the closest relationships with global consumers of any sector. People eat, sleep, play games, cement friendships and seek cures in H&L facilit...

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Apr 22, 2019

Many cultural communities lack the convenience and services of big cities while holding enormous tourism potential. Moreover, the access to healthcare, financial services and others is often very limited. Due to their location, the members involved h...

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Apr 22, 2019

Many cultural communities lack the convenience and services of big cities while holding enormous tourism potential. Moreover, the access to healthcare, financial services and others is often very limited. Due to their location, the members involved h...

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Apr 18, 2019

The Global Travel & Tourism industry continues to grow at a healthy pace, but not without some challenges. Over the past decade, we have been witnessing significant resident backlash against tourism growth in several major international destinati...

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Apr 18, 2019

For Travel Agencies, ticketing is a function that
entails high process time, while being low as a
value generating function. It is a function that
adds to the agency‘s costs in terms of the time
spent on query handli...

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Apr 17, 2019

Every year, data breaches expose billions of records worldwide.1 2 In most cases (76%), perpetrators are financially motivated.3 For several reasons, corporate travel programs may be particularly vulnerable: 1) Vendor data: Travel involves financial ...

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Mar 29, 2019

The year 2018 will be the year of embracing smart technology in business travel. After our first whitepaper on ‘Business Travel in India’, we’re delving deeper into the biggest disruptor in travel – digitalisation and how we&r...

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Mar 28, 2019

Tavitt’s ‘Travel Recommendation Service’ recommends the best and most efficient travel route for people to visit all the tourist attractions they select. Please think about the ‘cue’ or ‘chance’ for people to...

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Mar 25, 2019

The Power Of Tourism: Travel And Tourism Marketing Essentials. Define Your Target Audience. Identify the specific travelers and their interests that you want to target. Don’t try to be all things to all visitors. Make sure you clearly define wh...

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Mar 21, 2019

Hotelier Coin’s team of international luxury hoteliers, blockchain and fintech experts partnered with the best hotel tech, travel tech and fintech companies around the globe to build a legacy that will power the greatest change the hospitality ...

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Mar 20, 2019

Booking abandonment is a major issue that affects all online travel sites. The term ‘abandonment’ is used when an online visitor browses a website, looks at the products or services, but then leave the site before completing the payment p...

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Mar 15, 2019

However, we should also celebrate the good things about air travel; in the last 100 years we have amassed a rich cultural folklore around this subject. There’s the one involving catching people at the airport (having bought “whatever the ...

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Mar 13, 2019

With 83% of passengers travelling with them, mobile devices are an essential part of the travel journey today. Mobile is well integrated into the modern Travel & Tourism experience: with travellers using apps to arrange a ride to the airport, get...

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Mar 06, 2019

Whether you’re a state tourism office, a hotel marketing director or even the owner of an ice cream shop on Wildwood’s boardwalk, understanding how tourists tick can help sell more tickets, bookings and single-scoops.

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Feb 28, 2019

When your employees travel for business, their safety is of the utmost importance. And so, before they even think about heading off on their journeys, both you and your travellers must be aware of the risks involved.

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Feb 27, 2019

Most business travelers agree that business travel helps create and maintain strong relationships, helps with professional development, and is a good use of their time. Also, more than three-quarters of travelers across all countries agree that busin...

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Feb 26, 2019

Travel is getting much more tech-savvy, but some brands still have a long journey ahead. With airlines facing massive turbulence on the customer experience front, and thousands of hotels and tour providers struggling to differentiate at a time when l...

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Feb 25, 2019

We are Team RoadX - a FESTIVE ROAD and PredictX innovation partnership creating data services which will increase the strategic function of travel management. We wanted to know how far travel has come to achieving the data visibility needed for trave...

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Feb 21, 2019

Digitalization hasn’t just changed the way people shop and pay for travel, it has raised customer expectations – over price, over user journey and, increasingly, over ways to pay. Travel companies could be forgiven for thinking that match...

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Feb 21, 2019

Often, after the implementation of an SBT * within the company, buyers and/or travel managers come up against the following comment from users: “I can find it cheaper on the Internet! “. Except, even if this means challenging the rates on...

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Feb 13, 2019

Hotelier Coin’s team of international luxury
hoteliers, blockchain and fintech experts
partnered with the best hotel tech, travel tech
and fintech companies around the globe to build
a legacy that will power the grea...

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Feb 05, 2019

Tourism marketing aims to present a traveller with a vision of a destination, hospitality accommodation or event that will raise his intention to travel and hence lead to a booking. Virtual reality (VR) is a software-created artificial environment pr...

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Feb 03, 2019

Metasearch is a critical component in the online hotel marketing and distribution landscape, with more than 94% of online travelers ¹choosing metasearch when booking accommodation online. This translates into millions of searches that give leadi...

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Jan 23, 2019

The hospitality sector is one of the key drivers of the European economy, both in terms of employment as well as of direct contribution to the economy (close to 5% of GDP*). Indeed, the hospitality industry alone created 1,6 million new jobs between ...

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Jan 19, 2019

The dynamics of business travel have been
changing around the world in sync with the
new age corporate traveller. India continues
to grow at a rapid pace with increasing
contribution to global business travel spends.
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Jan 16, 2019

Whether you’re new to travel or not, every country comes with a unique set of challenges for its visitors. India is one of the most unique challenges of all—take our word for it, we’ve been doing business there for 15 years! In many...

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Jan 16, 2019

The increased use of mobile devices for travel has been nothing short of dramatic since the first apps appeared nearly a decade ago. Smart phones and tablets are a necessity in the business travel space and most will have multiple travel apps downloa...

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Jan 16, 2019

AI Travel Marketplace is a realization of Blockchain 3.0. Our objective is to make travel industry flat. We provide a marketplace where all travel agencies in the industry can all join to sell their content with one-click publishing and resellers can...

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Jan 15, 2019

We live in a time of disruption and rapid change in the global travel ecosystem. From initiatives such as New Distribution Capability (NDC) and ONE Order to dynamic shifts in technology, business models and consumer behavior and expectations, travel ...

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Jan 14, 2019

Airlines are launching holiday brands, hotels are launching their own tour operators, rail companies are selling accommodation, metasearch players are upselling packages within flight search results, even Google is taking an interest in the practice ...

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Jan 09, 2019

As one can guess, we all love traveling. Getting out and seeing the world is reinvigorating. However, while traveling is a great stress reliever, setting up a holiday can be a pain. We’d like to add the fact that setting up a holiday can be a p...

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Dec 27, 2018

Consider this report a round -trip ticket through the mind of today’s American consumer and their expectations and attitudes about travel in 2019. As aspirational as travel is, requiring daring and imagination, it also calls for immense practic...

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Dec 22, 2018

This Business Plan is not a prospectus or offer document of any sort and is not intended to constitute in itself an offer of securities of any form, units in a business trust, units in a collective investment scheme or any other form of investment, o...

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Dec 15, 2018

With 15 locations to choose from, there really is
something for everyone among the YFC holidays
available in 2019. From working in New Zealand
to volunteering in Sri Lanka or Costa Rica, YFC
Travel has so much to offer mem...

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Dec 12, 2018

While the term “risks” may conjure up thoughts of terrorist attacks and natural disasters, we’re also talking about smaller, more personal risks. This includes risks that affect your employees’ wellbeing, and smaller events th...

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Dec 05, 2018

Did you know there are 9.5 million Millennial households in the United States? Typically defined as the generation born between the early 1980s to mid 1990s, the average Millennial is planning to take 3 trips over the next year.In this post, see the ...

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Dec 04, 2018

There is no doubt that the OTA model based on the Internet has made travelling easier for all of us, and this is a huge improvement and disruption for the travel industry. However, as the saying goes, “Too much water drowned the miller”. ...

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Nov 21, 2018

Tourism in Iowa is about more than places to visit; it’s jobs, economic growth, quality of life, and revenue generation. It’s about investing in Iowa’s future. Iowa’s tourism and travel industry asks for your support and inves...

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Nov 21, 2018

Accounting for more than 10% of global GDP and the creation of one in five new jobs according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, travel and tourism continues to be one of the world’s fastest-growing industries. It is also an industry unde...

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Nov 20, 2018

Whether abroad or here in the UK, when you or your employees travel for business, it’s important to be aware of any potential risks. You should know how to avoid these risks, as well as how to deal with them appropriately, should they occur. Wh...

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Nov 18, 2018

Turning around a destination to once again attract profitable customers often requires a reevaluation of its competitive positioning. This issue of the Wanderlust Report presents a method for addressing positioning problems of underperforming and dis...

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Nov 18, 2018

In 2017, offline retail experienced a 5.5% increase in holiday sales1, exceeding forecasts. 2018 could be even better for your business - but only if you’re checking the right boxes.
Whether you are in the middle of holiday planning or j...

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Nov 15, 2018

Considering that the travel industry has been in the crosshairs of disruption for years, this is not unexpected. What is extraordinary, however, is that only 63 percent of C-Suite direct reports agree with their bosses in believing that past approach...

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Nov 15, 2018

The travel and tourism industry is the world’s largest commercial service sector industry. The World Trade Organization (WTO, not to be confused with the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)) is the leading international body that monitors int...

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Nov 14, 2018

According to Aberdeen Research, 100% of “best-inclass” companies (those with the highest customer retention and sales growth numbers) offer group travel to recognize year-end sales success. And while the concept of incentive travel works,...

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Nov 07, 2018

For 28 years the Readers’ Rail Tours have been taking our loyal readers on unforgettable journeys exploring the rich history and culture of New Zealand. Like-minded travelers come together to enjoy this unique experience of rail, cruise and coa...

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Oct 30, 2018

Travel - one of the most critical fuels to human inspiration, and a primary reason many of us
have had to work all year round. The ability to travel to destinations we want to see and experience
the world from vastly different locations...

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Oct 30, 2018

Experience Columbia SC executes a robust paid and earned
media strategy in key markets, increasing awareness while
driving an incredibly qualified, active travel-planning
audience to their official travel-planning channels

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Oct 24, 2018

The US lodging industry has experienced six consecutive years of growth from 2010 to 2016, with an average annual RevPAR growth of 6% according to Smith Travel Research. The majority of the survey respondents were largely optimistic about the growth ...

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Oct 23, 2018

Whether it’s for business or leisure, travel presents many challenges when it comes to money. For consumers, there are risks associated with carrying cash or credit cards. Your money - or worse, your identity - can be stolen. Traveling to forei...

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Oct 22, 2018

In each year, we spend one part of our time on resting or holidays to travel, play and enjoy and anyone feels difficult to deciding where to go, how to rest, what to eat as well as play and more importantly whether that place is suitable with us and ...

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Oct 18, 2018

The airline industry has always been dependent on intermediaries to provide critical services like settlement, distribution, and maintenance among others. Airlines depend on the various intermediary agencies to manage and share a lot of passenger and...

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Oct 17, 2018

Travel trends change, and the new top travel trend among Canadian travellers is multigenerational travel. With the baby boomer generation retiring in large numbers and wanting to spend more time with family, and with millennials having an increasing ...

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Oct 17, 2018

The past 12 months have been challenging for the wider UK economy, with inflation outstripping wage growth and a continued assault on the value of the pound providing the backdrop to the year.

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Oct 15, 2018

The way international travel and border crossings take place is the subject of ever new challenges and continues change. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations agency that oversees international air travel, formulate...

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Oct 12, 2018

The market for solo tourism products in Europe is booming. The number of singles is growing, as is the number of people that travel solo by choice. They increasingly tend to visit developing countries, seeking adventures, relaxation, solitude or conn...

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Oct 11, 2018

When managing a business travel programme, it’s important to monitor how that programme is performing and keep track of how much your employees are spending. This is where reporting comes in.

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Oct 10, 2018

Behind a country’s wealth and success are the policies that create possibilities, the people that drive the effort and the history that shapes the environment and perspective. Globalization has expanded a country’s presence beyond its phy...

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Oct 03, 2018

The first CRM launch truly changed the way sales were managed. We went from tracking customers on spreadsheets (and even in rolodexes) to tracking them and their attendant opportunities with software. It wasn’t long before reps started to feel ...

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Oct 03, 2018

Let’s explore some of the current processes around pipeline management and forecasting and how they can be improved.

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Sep 30, 2018

Just as there is much more to the whole travel process than the booking, there is also more to business travel than the expense. In any Managed Travel programme, corporate and social responsibility and optimisation of spend remain at the forefront of...

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Sep 28, 2018

Holiday shopping predictions for eCommerce this year are off the charts. Holiday sales are expected to reach an all-time high; but unfortunately, the shares will not be split evenly amongst merchants and retailers.

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Sep 25, 2018

In this paper, Triphop, an online travel company with over 90,000 members, outlines its vision of a decentralized ecosystem utilizing smart contract technology to align incentives between travelers and travel suppliers thus facilitate market growth a...

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Sep 20, 2018

The tourism sector is one of the few sectors in South Africa that continues to grow economically and globally despite the recent economic challenges. The tourism sector is one of the six core pillars of growth in the country according to the New Grow...

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Sep 19, 2018

This document details the impact of winter on Canadian Pacific (CP)’s operations, including how we measure the magnitude with a series of critical operational metrics that constantly assess the performance and health of the rail system.

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Sep 18, 2018

Alaska Airlines business units regularly evaluate whether application workloads should be placed into the public cloud or in on-premises data centers. Alaska Airlines evaluates application placement based on a number of factors, including cost, capac...

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Sep 17, 2018

Travel & Tourism is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing sectors, generating over US$2.3 trillion in direct contribution to global GDP in 2016. Together with the value of the supply chain in the form of indirect and induced impact...

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Sep 15, 2018

It was commissioned by IATA’s Industry Affairs Committee (IAC) carried out by the School of International Futures (SOIF), and informed by exchanges with the airline industry and external experts.

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Sep 15, 2018

Our vision is to create a community of people, whoad here to the principles of sustainable tourism and the environment while traveling and exploring smnmma
countries. Additionally, a small part of every Trawil 9 U: e.
transaction on the...

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Sep 15, 2018

Over the last couple of decades the entire airline industry has been going through a paradigm shift: As air travel became an ever-more easily accessible commodity, airlines had to rethink what their roles should be beyond simply being an operator of ...

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Sep 14, 2018

The GOZO Token is a coin that can be used to purchase goods and services within the Gozo ecosystem. Acquisitions of GOZO Tokens through the initial coin offering are non-refundable. GOZO Tokens are only to be used in connection with Gozo.

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Sep 13, 2018

Despite seeing a healthy industry growth, luxury hospitality brands are finding increasing challenges in digitalisation. Technology is not only contributing to a very crowded market space by giving smaller brands a chance to be seen, but it has also ...

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Sep 10, 2018

The travel industry is an important and decisive sector to the global economic development. Its direct impact to the global economy was more than 7 trillion USD in 2017. Given the current globalization typified by a changing pattern of traveler's...

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Sep 09, 2018

Public information on airline fuel efficiency remains scarce. Starting in 2013, the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) began assessing the fuel efficiency of U.S. airlines on domestic operations for 2010, with subsequent updates for...

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Sep 03, 2018

In the last decade, the membership economy has witnessed a drastic boost. It is no longer limited to premium clubs and societies. Individuals belonging to different domains can take the benefit of membership-driven companies. It allows a consumer to ...

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Aug 30, 2018

They did this because they consider the TMC to be their most important business partner today and wish to see them continue to play that role. But it also would be fair to say that, broadly speaking, the TMAG participants would like to see the TMC co...

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Aug 24, 2018

Travel & Tourism is a massive sector, with substantial opportunity for Blockchain technologies to improve traveller experience. It is one of the world’s largest industries, with a very bright future. There are currently over 1 billion inter...

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Aug 24, 2018

When we think of the managed travel industry we generally think about suited up travellers, kitted with laptops, briefcases and corporate presentations all packed neatly into compact hand luggage. But there is a whole other side to managed travel and...

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Aug 23, 2018

Travel-insurance sales to Americans
traveling outside of the country will
increase 3.96% in 2019, up from our
2.88% projection for 2018.

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Aug 16, 2018

Travel can be defined as many things to many people. Whether it’s for business or pleasure, the
thought of leaving your world of familiarity behind for the unknown can be exciting and glamorous.
We are entering a new golden age of...

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Aug 15, 2018

Since the growth of Lyon as a tourist destination, which began a decade or so ago, joint-production, jointconstruction and participative development have been the cornerstones of an approach intended to be collaborative and agile from the outset. The...

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Aug 15, 2018

The actual travel experience might be fleeting, but memories—no matter how big or small—last forever. This is even more true for today’s digital traveler: Memories are shared with friends all over the world, travel decisions are mad...

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Aug 15, 2018

Travel business has shown incredible growth in recent years, far exceeding the growth of global GDP in general and will continue to do so over the next decade. The use of innovative digital technology is the most advanced one of the main drivers of t...

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Aug 15, 2018

The world is an increasingly dangerous place, so the health and safety of business travelers is rightly at the top of the corporate agenda. According to 2017 research by Ipsos Mori, 72% of business travelers and travel managers believe that health an...

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Aug 10, 2018

All information and materials contained in this document are provided for informational purposes only and are subject to change at any time. REITECH Pte Ltd ("REIDAO") may, on behalf of Crowdvilla Ltd (A Non-Profit Organisation) (“Cro...

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Aug 08, 2018

After lots of hard work, training, and dedication, your team has the opportunity to tour. Of course, this is great news, and everyone’s very excited, but then, reality sinks in.

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Aug 08, 2018

TapestryKPI is a SaaS-based solution tackling the challenge of aggregating disparate data from multiple sources and transforming the data into usable clean data sets that organizations require for business performance monitoring. TapestryKPI saves ti...

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Jul 27, 2018

Destination Melbourne is pleased to announce an exciting rebrand of our Melbourne Tourism Industry Exchange (MTIE). Over the past 10 years, MTIE has been the centerpiece of Melbourne Tourism Week, and it will continue to be. Now called The Exchange, ...

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Jul 25, 2018

By following a few simple rules, you can save valuable time for your business, and control your travel costs at the same time. To help you, we’ve put together some top tips on how to get smart with your travel budget: Once you’ve decided ...

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Jul 23, 2018

Custom ICM solutions are built for you, not auditors, so they typically don’t offer visibility into actions performed over time. Auditors may lack confidence in your homegrown system, especially if they find errors or omissions. In fact, audit ...

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Jul 23, 2018

It all ties together. You want your sales reps to behave a certain way and close a certain amount of deals in specific verticals that match your company’s 3- and/or 5-year vision, but the systems you currently have in place to drive this behavi...

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Jul 23, 2018

You’ve reached a certain point in the evolution of your company and you know it’s time to invest in a CPQ system. But buyer beware: There’s a certain misconception around CPQ systems as being plug-in devices or turnkey-ready overlay...

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Jul 23, 2018

The spreadsheet conundrum... Joe Smith, sales director for Great Start-Up Number 5 Billion and Thirty-One, puts on a blindfold and reaches out blindly for something, ANYTHING, to help him organize his team’s deals and commissions. He’s ho...

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Jul 19, 2018

For tour and activity operators, it can be challenging to find current travel trends and statistics without having to look at hundreds of articles across the web. At TrekkSoft, we know how valuable travel statistics can be to operators, so every six ...

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Jul 17, 2018

At Ipsos Affluent Intelligence, we’re focused on helping companies understand Affluent influencers (Affluencers)—the most influential consumers in every category. Affluencers are category enthusiasts, early adopters, experimenters, and he...

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Jul 16, 2018

Travel business has been showing amazing growth in the past years, far outstripping the growth of the global GDP as a whole, and will continue to do so in the next decade. The use of the most innovative digital technologies has been one of the prime ...

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Jul 15, 2018

Choose Chicago executes a robust paid and earned media
strategy in key markets, increasing awareness while driving
an incredibly qualified, active travel-planning audience to their official travel-planning channels.

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Jul 10, 2018

By harnessing Code Halo thinking, travel and hospitality
companies can transform their business models by offering
an automated and customized trip planning experience,
ushering in a new era for the travel industry

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Jul 05, 2018

Travelvee is a decentralized platform for tourist bookings and travels, in which the blockchain is used, and smart contracts targeting the sector in the tourism industry on not occupied rooms in hotels of all levels. We offer a completely new approac...

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Jul 04, 2018

Think you know your company’s total travel spend? Think again. With travel spends often fragmented across multiple sources, it can be hard to keep track of your overall figures. It’s not unusual for a company’s travel costs to come ...

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Jun 29, 2018

Once you’ve written your travel policy, you’ll want to make sure that it is adhered to. On top of that, making the policy fluid, allowing it to continually evolve to support both your objectives and your travelers’ experiences, will...

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Jun 29, 2018

More and more people are choosing to book travel online but what are the benefits of this system? And how should you go about using it? In this guide, we look at everything you need to know about booking holidays or transport on the Internet. We will...

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Jun 28, 2018

Our Skift Megatrends annual package is the largest annual editorial effort from the Skift reporting team. These megatrends reflect our work on connecting the dots through Skift's intensive daily and long-term research coverage of various parts of...

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Jun 20, 2018

Few topics in recent years have captured the business travel industry’s collective attention as has the spread of Millennials in the workforce. The habits and desires of today’s youngest workers and their perceptions of structured travel ...

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Jun 20, 2018

The Institute of Hospitality is the professional body for individual managers and aspiring managers working and studying in the hospitality, leisure and tourism industry. The Institute has been in existence since the 1930s and its reputation as a mem...

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Jun 19, 2018

Tourism is a traditional industry. With the advent of the "Internet plus" era, the tourism industry has undergone tremendous changes. In the process of reform and transformation, the areas, businesses, service modes and position of the tour...

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Jun 16, 2018

No part of this document (hereinafter referred to as the “Whitepaper”) is to be reproduced, distributed or disseminated without including this section “Disclaimer of Liability”.

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Jun 15, 2018

Mastering the art of communication in the hospitality industry goes beyond the words themselves – the right conduit for realizing effective communication is essential.

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Jun 06, 2018

Achieving the right level of spend on your business travel can be a tricky balancing act, like an equation. Spend too much and you’ll make a large dent in your PnL; spend too little and you’ll limit your company’s overall growth in ...

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May 31, 2018

Global inbound arrivals are expected to grow by 5% to 1.4 billion trips in 2018. On the back of an upgraded economic outlook for major economies such as the US, Japan and the Eurozone, inbound receipts are expected to see an even stronger rise of 11%...

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May 31, 2018

The San Francisco 2018 summit was all about helping travel industry professionals separate the real from the hype. Check out the Round-up to see where the industry is placing its bets for the future.EyeforTravel’s San Francisco Summit 2018 brou...

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May 29, 2018

Asian sourced cruise passenger numbers hit another record high in 2017 with 4.052M taking an ocean cruise (up 20.6%). While mainland China posted a much slower growth than in previous years, it maintained its dominance in 2017, accounting for 59% of ...

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May 27, 2018

Travel and tourism have generated an approximate of $7.2 Trillion which is 9.8% of global GDP last 2016. Online booking comprises a majority of the revenues with 76% of those transactions conducted online.

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May 24, 2018

With the travel distribution landscape undergoing a period of great transformation, major players in the industry need to be on the lookout for potential “black swans” if they want to succeed in the years to come. For this paper, Amadeus ...

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May 17, 2018

When you or your employees travel for business, duty of care is of the utmost importance. Not only should you have systems in place to ensure the safety of your team while they’re away, but make sure they know where to turn in the event that th...

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May 15, 2018

The Internet is a global network connecting individuals and entities around the world. In the 30 years since
widespread use, the Internet has broken down barriers and distances in terms of information and commerce.

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May 13, 2018

Hotels are increasingly challenged by emerging competitors and shifting customer demands and expectations; Airbnb being just one example of the former and Millennials of the latter. It is becoming clear that all of the ‘traditional’ playe...

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May 06, 2018

With this additional negotiation strength, we can access special corporate rates at a vast range of hotel options in all four corners of the globe. Furthermore, we’re able to include complimentary value-added extras, such as free breakfast, Wi-...

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May 05, 2018

The online revolution has changed the way consumers research and shop, and cruise vacations are no exception. Whether consumers book their cruise online or simply start their research there, travel sellers need to be ready to assist them through the ...

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May 05, 2018

Tourism across the globe is becoming more about journeys and experiences than simply viewing or visiting sites and destinations. Research has repeatedly found that what encourages a visitor to a certain destination is its ability to engage in unforge...

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Apr 28, 2018

The choices for U.S. and Canadian travelers flying to Bonaire continue to change. Many of these airline alternatives require knowledge of schedules, days of operation, gateway cities and routing to successfully navigate and find the most viable choic...

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Apr 24, 2018

"Let’s make it happen" reflects the values of our country while keeping the invitation open and thus allowing everyone to feel concerned by it. The two elements of the symbol X and the invitation complement each other and communicate ...

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Apr 24, 2018

Forgive us the throwback moment, but when it comes to engaging consumers, brands are smart to embrace the power of partnerships. Any brand – be it a start-up or a global powerhouse-has the power to drive a bottom line strategy while providing m...

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Apr 24, 2018

The OECD Tourism Trends and Policies 2018 report provides a clear picture of policies designed to support tourism competitiveness, innovation and growth. The report also highlights the significance of the tourism economy, providing data on domestic, ...

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Apr 24, 2018

Your travel brand needs to reach an increasingly mobile traveler and to do so in a smart, linked up way, but do you know how? This free mobile market report will give you the analysis, insight, and strategy to become a mobile master. The results from...

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Apr 24, 2018

A blockchain facilitates secure online transactions. It is a decentralized digital ledger that is used to record transactions across many computers so that the record cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks and...

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Apr 24, 2018

Every day, visitors to your community are spending locally: it might be on a bed for the night, a rental car, petrol or maybe a bus ticket; buying meals, snacks, and a coffee; visiting a museum or trying a round of golf; maybe hiring a bike for the c...

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Apr 21, 2018

German travel consumers are set to spend more than €130 billion on leisure travel in 2018 in a market that is going from strength-to-strength. Download the free report excerpt now to understand the international and domestic travel markets.Germa...

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Apr 19, 2018

A strengthening global economy lies at the heart of industry growth. Each year, the global traveler pool is flooded with millions of new consumers from both emerging and developed markets, many with rising disposable incomes and a newfound ability to...

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Apr 18, 2018

Facebook is on a social mission to make the world more open and connected. Since its humble beginnings in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, Facebook has grown to become the dominant social network in the world with over 1 billion users and the distinction...

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Apr 18, 2018

Digital is changing how we live. Connected humans and machines continuously learn, innovate, take control, disrupt-all the time. A person with an idea and a laptop can mobilize a movement and change the world. Think Mark Zuckerberg.

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Apr 18, 2018

Tourism is one of the fastest growing economies of the word. This does not only imply that economic growth is increasing, but also that more travellers demand a greater variety of destinations and attractions and that the experiences tourists are see...

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Apr 15, 2018

Ireland has an exceptional tourism offering and the sector is of critical importance to the economy. To ensure the sector continues to grow in a sustainable manner, it is essential that a clear policy framework is in place.

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Apr 14, 2018

The right policy and investment decisions are only made with empirical evidence. For over 25 years, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has been providing this evidence, quantifying the economic and employment impact of Travel & Tourism...

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Apr 14, 2018

Everybody’s habits, needs, and preferences are just a little different when they travel. Window or aisle seat? A preference for a room on a higher floor? An automatic or manual transmission rental car? Pad thai or tuna maki rolls? And those pre...

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Apr 12, 2018

Companies with a strong handle on their data have a major edge. They can move first and move faster than their rivals and speak to their consumers in ways that other can’t. EyeforTravel’s Smart Travel Data Summit North America Round-up br...

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Apr 10, 2018

Crowdvilla aims to provide true sharing of its global portfolio of hotels and holiday properties on the blockchain. Based on the concept of the common good, Crowdvilla’s community pools their resources to acquire properties together for their s...

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Apr 10, 2018

Cool Cousin is a decentralized travel agency, connecting travelers and like-minded locals for personalized on-demand guidance.

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Apr 09, 2018

Germany is Europe’s most important travel market. It alone accounts for 30% of EU citizen’s overnight stays in foreign countries and is the world’s third-largest outbound market. Click here for a free report extract giving an overvi...

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Apr 01, 2018

Forgive us the throwback moment, but when it comes to engaging consumers, brands are smart to embrace the power of partnerships. Any brand – be it a start-up or a global powerhouse – has the power to drive a bottom-line strategy while pro...

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Mar 31, 2018

The travel and hospitality industry has always been and still is an early adopter of technological innovations. However, the changing business scenario and dynamic customer preferences are giving rise to challenges that call for a new strategy &ndash...

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Mar 29, 2018

There has been a lot of talk recently about Marriott’s proposed acquisition of Starwood and what it would mean for guests, competitors, intermediaries, and the companies’ loyalty members if the transaction ultimately happens. Would SPG me...

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Mar 26, 2018

In the hospitality business, it’s a given that turnover is generally high. In fact, Deloitte puts employee turnover in the sector at around 30% - nearly twice the average. This is expensive - the combined costs of continual recruitment and the ...

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Mar 25, 2018

As managed travel programs move into their teen years, the twenties and even thirties, many managers are asking ‘what’s next’ as they strive to demonstrate returns. Nearly 60 percent of travel buyers surveyed by The BTN Group and Tr...

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Mar 23, 2018

The cruise market is set to continue growing in Australia with the estimate for the next 12 months to be in the range of 14-18%. It is expected that by July 2018, 1.63 m Australians will have cruised. A third of Australians have some likelihood to cr...

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Mar 20, 2018

Millions of people take to the roads and skies every year to visit or travel to their favourite holiday destination. As the world goes mobile, travellers are using their mobile devices to book tickets, search for leisure and adventure activities and ...

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Mar 14, 2018

California is the number one travel destination in the United States. In 2010, approximately 200 million visitors generated $95.1 billion in spending on goods and services in the state. Visitor spending directly supported jobs for 873,000 Californian...

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Mar 14, 2018

This document follows the processes of the Concierge.io design and development and execution. Concierge.io is a decentralized travel booking marketplace that utilizes the NEO blockchain, reducing 3rd party interaction, whilst pledging a transparent o...

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Mar 14, 2018

Many travel management companies offer business travel technology platforms. Technology can be anything from online booking tools (OBTs) to mobile apps, and come with features such as traveller tracking, traveller profiles and travel alerts. The main...

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Mar 13, 2018

The general availability of SMS — those 160-character messages exchanged on mobile phones — on everything from the most basic handsets to the most feature-rich smartphones makes text messaging the lowest common denominator for information...

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Mar 06, 2018

AQUA Intelligence is a data-driven platform on the blockchain that enables consumers to monetize and validate their personal data. Based on trusted data and other sources, AQUA Intelligence creates the most comprehensive and decentralized profile for...

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Mar 06, 2018

Euromonitor International’s city arrivals research covers over 600 cities. This report highlights the top
100 cities based on 2017 international arrivals. International arrivals by city includes visitors from abroad
who arrive at ...

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Mar 05, 2018

The way people pay for travel is reaching a new level of complexity. There are now a host of local players offering e-wallets, currency cards, peer-to-peer exchanges, and credit and debit cards, all hoping to compete with cash. Download this free rep...

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Mar 03, 2018

The way businesses are managing employee travel and expenses (T&E) is changing. New technologies, a world of new travel options and a more empowered workforce have transformed the playing field for the finance team – even compared to just a...

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Mar 01, 2018

In the world of hospitality distribution, we often refer to the “content conundrum:” the challenge of taking images, property and room information and everything else consumers want to know about a hotel’s services, rules and amenit...

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Mar 01, 2018

Travel and Hospitality is one of the key sectors of the Indian economy. Not only is it one of the highest foreign exchange earners, but also one of the largest employment generators. The future looks bright for travel and tourism, with more demand fo...

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Mar 01, 2018

It is obvious that the future belongs to platforms that are capable of collecting and structuring any data. Artificial Intelligence applications will be able to use collected and stored data to anticipate user preferences and provide accurate recomme...

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Mar 01, 2018

Its purpose is to describe the anticipated plans of TravelBlock for developing a new blockchain token (“Token”) that will be used on a platform sponsored by TravelBlock (“Platform”). Nothing in this document should be treated ...

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Feb 27, 2018

The Securities Act of 1933 sec. 2 (a) defines “security” as: “any note, stock, treasury stock, security feature, security-based swap, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-...

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Feb 25, 2018

The travel and tourism industry is booming. During 2017, the UN’s International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, international tourist arrivals grew by 7% to reach a total of 1.326 billion. This total far exceeds the United Nations ...

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Feb 23, 2018

Climb Mount Everest. Win a prize in Mega Millions. Get accepted into Harvard. These are all things that you’re more likely to do than click on a banner ad. So how can the travel industry overcome the resistance to click on ads? Two simple words...

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Feb 20, 2018

Few topics in recent years have captured the business travel industry’s collective attention as has the spread of Millennials in the workforce. The habits and desires of today’s youngest workers and their perceptions of structured travel ...

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Feb 20, 2018

The information set forth in this document may not be exhaustive and does not imply any elements of
a contractual relationship. Its sole purpose is to provide relevant and reasonable information to potential token holders in order for them to ...

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Feb 20, 2018

In recent years more floating developments, both individual properties and larger communities, have sprung up around the world. That’s led some development experts to say on-the-water communities could be a more sustainable, affordable and, in ...

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Feb 17, 2018

Amadeus has commissioned Oxford Economics to undertake a study exploring the trends shaping the future of travel, and examining a range of factors including global trends in travel growth, travel in emerging and frontier markets, business travel and ...

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Feb 15, 2018

As the quest for travel program compliance and savings remains the focus at many companies, travel executives reported that quarterly, if not monthly reporting to senior management, chief financial officers, and business unit budget owners has become...

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Feb 15, 2018

Facebook is on a social mission to make the world more open and connected. Since its humble beginnings in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, Facebook has grown to become the dominant social network in the world with over 1 billion users and the distinction...

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Feb 14, 2018

The collaborative opportunities have always been so close. After all, the travel and hospitality sector circles the globe, with customer touch points at every airline, airport, hotel, and restaurant. Meanwhile, retailers fulfill consumers’ mate...

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Feb 14, 2018

Blockchain has been having been heralded as a transformational technology. While several use cases have been identified by airlines and airports, research is required to establish the suitability and practicalities of using blockchain to establish a ...

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Feb 02, 2018

Business leaders widely accept that an organizations success is underpinned by an efficient and integrated systems infrastructure. The speed and sophistication of new technologies and connectivity are driving change everywhere, and more and more orga...

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Feb 02, 2018

Tripio is the first travel marketplace based on the blockchain. It leverages the decentralized network provided by blockchain technologies to directly connect global customers and service providers. Moreover, it builds a service ecosystem based on tr...

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Feb 02, 2018

The EBCoin ecosystem will revolutionize the duty-free/tourism tax refund market, currently estimated to be valued at $60 billion a year. EBCoin will function as an ERC20 token, standardized on the Ethereum blockchain and will be complemented by a com...

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Feb 01, 2018

Almost every industry can be seen to be distancing itself from the conventional product-centric business model in favor of providing the right kind of experience. Tourism as a whole is no different. There seems to be an ever-emerging emphasis on the ...

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Jan 24, 2018

People have a special skill to see the world in the most unique ways. Their opinions, views, and discoveries alter the way we see the world and have an enormous impact on our daily decision making. These days, a lot of decisions are made based on onl...

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Jan 24, 2018

Luxury has a perennial fascination for humans and the travel industry is no exception. But that fascination is easier to recognise than to define. “Luxury, we all know what it is when we see it, but it’s almost impossible to define”...

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Jan 22, 2018

What exactly will the travel organization of the future look like? Attendees from around the globe came to EyeforTravel’s Digital & Data Strategies for Travel 2017 summit to find out. Read the free round-up report to see what their conclusi...

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Jan 20, 2018

In recent years, bots were heralded as critical to the future of the travel industry, but only 4 percent of our survey respondents anticipate booking a trip through a travel bot or chat bot in 2018, and only 22 percent say they’re even aware of...

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Jan 19, 2018

The travel and tourism industry is booming. During 2017, the UN’s International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development,
international tourist arrivals grew by 7% to reach a total of 1.326 billion. This total far exceeds the United N...

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Jan 17, 2018

America’s love affair with leisure travel remains strong. Our most recent travel sentiment tracking study shows leisure travel expectations are continuing the pattern of stability seen in recent years. The State of the American TravelerTM resul...

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Jan 17, 2018

Accidents can happen while you’re overseas – even if you’re visiting a “safe” destination. If your trip goes south, you could be saddled with an enormous bill for medical, legal and other expenses. The New Zealand Govern...

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Jan 16, 2018

As the age-related demographic shift takes place across the globe, staying active and engaged will be essential to ensure the health and well-being of individuals and society as a whole. Globally, there will be 1 billion people over the age of 60 by ...

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Jan 15, 2018

The George Washington University (GW), the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA), and Xola Consulting (Xola) undertook the following study of the Adventure Travel Market in 2009. The goal of the study was to gain a better understanding of the siz...

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Jan 10, 2018

Ten years ago a seminal blueprint for cultural and heritage tourism was adopted by the more than 1,500 dedicated political and industry leaders and practitioners as part of their national agenda for the travel industry, which they developed at the 19...

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Jan 08, 2018

Voice is the hot investment area for the biggest players in tech at the moment but what do they see and can AI-powered voice services really change a field as complex as travel? Download this free report to find out. If you haven’t encountered ...

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Jan 01, 2018

Passionate about this province—its resources, its opportunities—and its athletes, Canadian Sports Tourism Alliance (CSTA) and Tourism Toronto jointly commissioned this White Paper. It is intended to stimulate focused dialogue and set in m...

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Jan 01, 2018

Tourism in the Western Cape and its related components and activities have not been managed and developed in accordance with a clear, collective policy and strategy. As a result, the various components of the industry are largely uncoordinated and in...

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Jan 01, 2018

Travel - one of the most critical fuels to human inspiration, and a primary reason many of us have had to work all year round. The ability to travel to destinations we want to see and experience the world from vastly different locations is something ...

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Dec 29, 2017

Tourism, as with most industries, exerts both positive and negative influences on the world. On the plus side, the sector’s economic contribution is enormous. World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) estimates that factoring in spending in anc...

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Dec 25, 2017

Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the world’s largest cruise industry trade association, has released the 2018 State of the Cruise Industry Outlook.

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Dec 21, 2017

As online travel in the U.S. enters its third decade, the distinction between online and offline travel is blurring. Speak to any travel marketer today and they will almost certainly agree: there is no more “online” vs. “offline&rdq...

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Dec 19, 2017

Communicating the benefits of travel program compliance to all travelers within an organization is a sizable task. Travelers, after all, take many shapes. They come from multiple generations; have varying levels of comfort with technology; including ...

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Dec 15, 2017

Today’s digital business traveler wants one thing above all: self-service. Travelers want the freedom to handle parts of their journey themselves – from downloading digital boarding passes on the go, to amending bookings in the event of d...

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Dec 15, 2017

Our airline reservation, management, and booking software provide a comprehensive solution for all aspects of Online Travel air-ticket booking, effectively integrating reservations, sales, flight details into one system.

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Dec 15, 2017

Punctual turnarounds have become a critical factor for success for airline operations, though
actively controlling ground processes is still relatively uncharted territory for many airlines. The
period of time between on-blocks and off-...

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Dec 10, 2017

The travel industry is a trillion dollar business, which accounts for over 10% of the employment worldwide. The industry is growing steadily every year. Due to technology, traveling has been made easier and we are able to travel further in less time....

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Dec 07, 2017

43% of international travelers always take their mobile professional devices with them on holiday or on weekend trips. 89% of seasoned international travelers say mobile professional devices are a means of staying in touch with their loved ones.

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Nov 30, 2017

A powerful tool for hospitality managers and car rental service providers to streamline processes and optimize booking management. Proper management is vital for the successful running of any business. However, this is far from being easy to achieve....

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Nov 30, 2017

Hospitality businesses live and die by their reputations but are accommodation brands really focusing enough on the one moment where they have the guest’s complete and undivided attention: The stay itself? Now, a wave of innovation is giving ho...

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Nov 27, 2017

In the near future, there will be 370 million traveling Millennials worldwide1, who, until the inception of Pally, had extremely limited access to social travel communities that offer useful local interactions, as well as affordable, high-quality cur...

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Nov 22, 2017

Change has been the only constant in the online travel business. Unrest in tourist hotspots, a hard-hitting recession, mergers and acquisitions, and a complete transformation of consumer behavioral patterns the industry has seen and suffered it all.

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Nov 21, 2017

You’re in the travel business. Congratulations for being a part of giving people something they love! In fact, 96% of American travelers are planning a domestic trip in 2016.1 Travel doesn’t just broaden the mind, it refreshes, rejuvenate...

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Nov 21, 2017

Business travel is ripe for a shake-up, with low-cost carriers and short-term rentals already muscling in. Business travel has the potential to become highly automated because it is a more frequent activity, whereby brands can deliver and improve on ...

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Nov 21, 2017

With the emergence of new technology, supplier-direct efforts and shifts due to generational changes, business traveler behavior is changing. As a result, modern managed travel programs must implement tools to capture data from all booking sources. I...

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Nov 19, 2017

Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association (HEDNA) set up a Global Hospitality Payment
Working Group in early 2016 to provide clarity as to options, design and best practices for the entire
stream of payment processing in the hot...

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Nov 18, 2017

In today’s fast-paced, digital world, technology is advancing rapidly making it critical for businesses to evolve to stay competitive. The need to stay abreast with emerging technology is being felt across industries including the airlines. A s...

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Nov 18, 2017

'All independent (independent of the family) trips for periods of less than one year by people aged 16-29’, motivated in part or full by a desire to experience other cultures, build life experience and/or benefit from formal and informal le...

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Nov 18, 2017

Impressively, since the 1970s Bonaire has championed efforts to protect its natural environment and resources. There is no doubt that these efforts have interlaced themselves with the resident’s everyday life and are a fiber in the fabric of Bo...

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Nov 18, 2017

When did business travel become so boring? If there’s one type of company document that occupies the most space on a file server, it’s the policy. Think back to the last time you asked someone to read one and sign a piece of paper to say ...

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Nov 18, 2017

Egencia works across 65 countries worldwide, each with its own culture, business norms and often its own language. As we have grown to become one of the world’s largest Travel Management Companies (TMCs), Egencia has focused on one commonality ...

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Nov 17, 2017

The report highlights key insights such as, the destinations that students will be traveling to, either as a holiday or backpacking, the reasons for travel and what gadgets students are planning to take with them.

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Nov 16, 2017

The comfort and convenience of your regular travelers should always be a top priority but not at the expense of your bottom line. Oversights and overspends on travel requirements can eat into your profit margin, negatively affecting your business. Wi...

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Nov 15, 2017

State all activities offered at a specific location, and
define if you are going to include them in your
tourism package or you are going to offer them as
additional items.

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Nov 15, 2017

In today’s fast-paced, digital world, technology is advancing rapidly making it critical for businesses to evolve to stay competitive. The need to stay abreast with emerging technology is being felt across industries including the airlines. A s...

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Nov 14, 2017

Since it is planned to develop the white paper right up to the project implementation, we recommend checking the updates of this document at least once every 2 weeks. We will systematically improve the content of this document, disclosing aspects of ...

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Nov 11, 2017

Online Travel Agencies (OTAs), like Expedia, provide travelers with a variety of accommodation options in one place and put information at their fingertips. OTAs are the leading resource during the planning phase of a trip, and remain prevalent throu...

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Nov 09, 2017

Every day, visitors to your community are spending locally: it might be on a bed for the night, a rental car, petrol or maybe a bus ticket; buying meals, snacks, and a coffee; visiting a museum or trying a round of golf; maybe hiring a bike for the c...

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Nov 06, 2017

Our vision is to inspire and empower millions of people to travel the world. This is why we have brought together a team of avid travelers, technologists, and blockchain enthusiasts to launch Explorio - the world’s first decentralized travel re...

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Nov 01, 2017

Triip Pte. Ltd – a profitable travel startup founded in 2014, licensed by the Singapore Tourism Board, is doing a reverse ICO. We have been helping travelers book authentic local tours, hotel rooms, and accommodations seamlessly in 227 countrie...

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Oct 27, 2017

This report was produced in collaboration with the Jonathan M. Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism. The Tisch Center is a leading academic center and research partner for the tourism and hospitality industries.

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Oct 24, 2017

Disruptive Forces and New Technologies are Changing the Game: The travel industry is undergoing constant change and innovation. Suppliers seek to take advantage of new technologies that can increase their brand value and pricing power in a changing, ...

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Oct 24, 2017

The challenge before the travel and tourism industry is real. In 2015, there were 1.2 billion international tourism arrivals, and billions more domestic tourists; this is predicted to nearly double by 2030, prompting the UN World Tourism Organization...

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Oct 18, 2017

Global Buyers Survey allows us a look into the trends and habits of medical travelers. What are they interested in? What drives them to choose a destination? What are their expectations? Out of the results of this survey and our previous surveys cond...

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Oct 18, 2017

Under ‘Tourism 2020’, Australia’s national strategy to enhance growth and competitiveness in tourism, the industry aims to increase annual overnight visitor expenditure to more than $115 billion by 2020. › Tourism Australia w...

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Oct 17, 2017

Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG) is a non-profit association with a mission to foster, through collaboration and partnership, the development of next-generation systems and solutions that will enable hoteliers and their technology vendor...

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Oct 17, 2017

Most of us are told of the value of collaboration from an early age and throughout life learn about the many positive benefits associated with working together. Fast-forward to 2017, where it has never been more of an important time for businesses to...

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Oct 15, 2017

The information and documents that appear in this Whitepaper are exclusively informative. No content on may be construed as an offer, invitation or recommendation, for the subscription or acquisition, holding or sale of any financial instrument.

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Oct 15, 2017

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a merk...

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Oct 15, 2017

At the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) 2016 global conference, dynamic hotel pricing versus preferred hotel rates versus open booking was a popular topic among panelists.

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Oct 11, 2017

International online travel agencies provide benefits to many parties – travelers, accommodation providers, and local economies. This paper seeks to explain how this industry works, clarify its benefits, and provide advice on how regulators can...

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Oct 11, 2017

The top travel destinations have changed many times over the years. While some vacation spots have remained consistently popular, others have risen and fallen out of favor.

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Oct 10, 2017

Business travel is on the rise. Sources indicate that between 2017 and 2019, global business travel spending could increase by 5.8% to 6.4% year on year1 . However, with an increasingly mobile workforce comes potentially more risk. With a duty of car...

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Sep 19, 2017

Just as there is much more to the whole travel process than the booking, there is also more to business travel than the expense. In any Managed Travel programme, corporate and social responsibility and optimization of spending remain at the forefront...

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Sep 18, 2017

We design and build LockTrip, a decentralized open source bookings ecosystem for renting hotel rooms, private properties or accommodation (the decentralized LOC Ledger). LockTrip will be the first system which allows end customers and property owners...

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Sep 15, 2017

Despite significant advances in online conferencing and other exciting technologies such as virtual reality, business travel remains a fundamental, accepted part of modern business life. As the focus for many multinational companies has become region...

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Sep 15, 2017

A traveler’s journey knows no borders or boundaries. They don’t see channels, devices or publishers – they just see their perfect holiday or next adventure. This eBook will provide you with key insights and initiatives to simplify a...

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Sep 05, 2017

The medical tourism market is considered to be a revenue-generating and competitive industry; it is also a novel field in the tourism sector. At the macro level, governments are eager to utilize the economic advantages originating from the tourism in...

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Aug 29, 2017

The traditional travel buying process faces assault from a barrage of disruptors, including shifts to open-booking, emerging “sharing economy” platforms and new tools that can track both traveler behaviors and preferences as well as prici...

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Aug 25, 2017

As the quest for travel program compliance and savings remains the focus at many companies, travel executives reported that quarterly, if not monthly reporting to senior management, chief financial officers, and business unit budget owners has become...

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Aug 21, 2017

TravelCoin™ Foundation (TCF) is a not-for-profit community interest company (CIC) registered in the United Kingdom. The objectives of the Company are to carry on activities which benefit the community and in particular to commission research an...

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Aug 20, 2017

Corporations have long struggled with the ideal reporting structure for the travel management function. Over the past decade, increasing numbers of travel managers saw their titles change to “buyers” as they reported to procurement, or in...

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Aug 18, 2017

Travel management companies are the operational backbone of most managed travel programs. As close allies to travel managers, TMCs can take on many roles for the organizations they serve. They often act as transaction enablers, assisting with plannin...

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Aug 17, 2017

Being online is an increasingly personal experience that people want to tap into at their own convenience, whatever the time of day and wherever they happen to be. Staying connected to the Internet is also essential for travelers. Mobile data traffic...

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Aug 15, 2017

Business travel management during the past few decades has shown itself as a flexible and durable concept. The constants of its blueprint for success, like driving traveler compliance and directing volume to suppliers, have helped organizations adapt...

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Aug 07, 2017

On behalf of ASSA ABLOY, market intelligence researcher SAC Insight conducted exclusive qualitative and quantitative research on the size, nature and growth prospects of the holiday rentals market in Europe.1 For the first time, we are able to publis...

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Jul 28, 2017

Efficient transport connectivity and services are important to the economy and people of Brunei Darussalam. Hence, the Land Transport White Paper is developed to support the realization of the overarching goals of Wawasan 2035 and the Strategic Plan ...

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Jul 27, 2017

Results from the 2016 National Travel Survey show that in recent years there has been a trend of steadily falling trip rates. In 2016 people made nearly 15 trips a week on average (774 trips on average in the year) excluding short walks. This was 13%...

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Jul 27, 2017

Although the travel & hospitality industry has been an early adopter of technological innovations, the changing business environment &customer preferences are giving rise to challenges that call for a new strategy-one that not only leverages ...

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Jul 25, 2017

Tours and activities are now a major target for investment for all verticals in the travel sector. Their aim: To offer the customer everything they need to make their next vacation special, drive personalization, and capitalize on a shift to experient...

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Jul 12, 2017

Based on our Economic Cohorts® consumer segmentation system, Travel and Hospitality Propensity Digital Targeting Segments take into account both interest and capacity to buy. Our unique buying capacity insights are driven by the Economic Cohorts ...

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Jul 12, 2017

Most travel agents only accept payments in fiat, exposing the customer to a variety of unnecessary problems including extortionate foreign exchange rates, transaction delays, and double bookings. Travelers are also wasting too much time navigating a ...

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Jul 12, 2017

Deciding when to change travel management company can seem like an onerous task for your business, but it doesn’t need to be. At Corporate Traveller we regularly help companies like yours to review their travel programmes, helping you to identi...

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Jul 08, 2017

Traveling for business can be stressful. You face long hours on the move, trying to keep track of all your meetings, not knowing which time zone you’re in, and that’s not to mention the added hassle of flight delays or last-minute itinera...

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Jul 07, 2017

There is one segment of the travel industry whose growth will be slowed only by its capacity: cruising. And the reasons are really quite simple: the product is priced inclusively; guests typically awaken in a new “destination” every day; ...

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Jun 30, 2017

The rise of mobile has created a huge and constantly engaged user base in social and messenger apps. Whereas the biggest travel apps have millions of downloads, the biggest social media players have billions. Furthermore, the amount of time spent in ...

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Jun 30, 2017

The rise of mobile has created a huge and constantly engaged user base in social and messenger apps. Whereas the biggest travel apps have millions of downloads, the biggest social media players have billions. Furthermore, the amount of time spent in ...

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Jun 29, 2017

State legislation approved in April allows Transportation Network Companies (ride-sourcing agencies such as Uber and Lyft) to operate anywhere in New York State (outside NYC) with state oversight beginning 90 days from enactment. By June 29, these co...

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Jun 25, 2017

Whether short or long, weak or strong, simple or highly complex, travel policies form the backbone of most managed travel programs. Consequently, getting them aligned with corporate objectives, updated to reflect the latest marketplace nuances and st...

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Jun 24, 2017

Engagement and loyalty programs are no longer trinkets and cash. Today, it’s a question of understanding travelers through data and offering meaningful recognition and rewards to elicit expected behaviors. It’s time for organizations to m...

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Jun 23, 2017

When consumer travel apps are cheap, easy to download and offer choice to business travelers, one could ask why managed travel must duplicate the effort. As long as travel compliance to an agency or online booking tool is secure and the travel buyer ...

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Jun 22, 2017

Across-the-board transformation is disrupting the hospitality industry. Here’s how organizations can prepare for a future of chatbot services, expanded loyalty ecosystems, staff-less lobbies and tech-driven guest experiences while facing new co...

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Jun 20, 2017

Over the past decade, procurement and finance increasingly have driven the processes, metrics, and contracts for corporate managed travel services. Savings have dominated the focus for most travel managers in recent years as companies sought to stret...

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Jun 20, 2017

Whether consolidation or co-operation, the concept of a formal working relationship between meetings and travel teams has been discussed and debated for more than 20 years. While a recent study indicated that few companies have mastered such integrat...

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Jun 20, 2017

There is a positive outlook for tourism in Saudi Arabia, with strong growth forecast and a wave of investment underway. At a total contribution of SAR 190bn in 2015, Travel & Tourism is currently the second highest contributor to Gross Domestic P...

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Jun 16, 2017

Digital customers want authentic, personalized and ”frictionless” experiences throughout their travel journeys. A recent Accenture survey indicates 76 percent of the travel C-Suite believes “customer expectations are increasingly sh...

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Jun 14, 2017

As business travel becomes increasingly global, the focus on travel risk management continues to grow. There are perhaps four influential factors driving this growth: Increased travel to developing markets (some high risk), Increased media coverage a...

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Jun 13, 2017

Data management reporting and airline ancillary fees were the top inefficiencies costing their organizations money, according to 150 travel buyers who responded to an online survey conducted this spring by The BTN Group and ALTOUR. Both topics, as we...

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Jun 07, 2017

One of the easiest ways to monitor and control your business travel spend is to implement a travel policy. This useful set of guidelines, aimed at both business travel bookers and business travellers, will give you a clearer idea of what you can book...

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Jun 05, 2017

Twenty years after online booking tools were introduced for managed travel, it’s clear that the technology has revolutionized the playbook for such programs. But as consumer tools have launched seemingly endless feature and functionality innova...

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Jun 01, 2017

The reality of a multi-generational workforce has begun to emerge at many companies and with its pressures to adapt corporate travel policies and practices. About half of 139 travel managers surveyed earlier this year by The BTN Group and Travel and ...

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May 28, 2017

Consumerization, mobile technologies, the sheer availability of data along with the ability to share it-these are the market realities that simultaneously challenge the managed travel industry and inspire it with a broad scope of opportunity. Mobile ...

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May 20, 2017

Latin America has developed as a dynamic region for business travel with both internal growth and expansion of globally consolidated programs. But successful travel management in this area of more than 20 countries depends on careful navigation of ke...

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May 17, 2017

Virtual reality could change the way people consumer travel content but are consumers ready to embrace this new technology and is it worth travel brands investing today? This white paper explores market conditions and the business case for virtual re...

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May 17, 2017

Travel is an act, a passion, a human right and an industry. To those not involved in the sector, tourism is rarely seen as a serious affair, certainly not one that can overshadow pressing issues, such as climate change and global terrorism. And yet, ...

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May 16, 2017

In a recent client publication, Carlson Wagonlit Travel identied “connectivity” as “the next big thing” for travel management. Beyond ground transportation, beyond the ability to harness meetings spend day-to-day access to in...

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May 12, 2017

A year after the concept is known as “Open Booking” was first introduced, the travel industry continues to debate the advantages, obstacles, and costs of a new style of travel management. About one-third of 139, travel buyers/managers sur...

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May 05, 2017

Like many industry sectors and professions, travel and travel management are working to move past the buzz and hype of the ‘Big Data’ headlines to assess the potential challenges, impact, and benefits it could have on this space. Many are...

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May 01, 2017

Travel managers say the ability to track travelers directly affects their ability to perform their job, but how to manage the tracking still presents issues. According to a summer 2012 AirPlus International survey, the use of traveler tracking system...

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Apr 30, 2017

A new generation of Millennial employees (21 to 30-year-olds) is poised to become a stronghold in the workforce and they are bringing their intensive technology habits with them. A proliferation of consumer and business-focused mobile travel apps and...

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Apr 28, 2017

We will explain how biometrics - and face recognition in particular - can be combined with new self-service solutions to help meet the challenges of security, quality of service and the sustained growth in air passenger numbers.

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Apr 28, 2017

Hotels today are spending as much time, effort, and resources on technology and improving their internal networks as they are on the quality of their linens and food service

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Apr 26, 2017

Traveler managers who rely on past experiences with and prior knowledge of business travelers are missing opportunities to connect with today’s new breed of business traveler. Those are some of the findings of a Global Business Travel Associati...

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Apr 26, 2017

Travel & Tourism is important and often overlooked
the export sector that makes a significant direct contribution to jobs and global trade, spreading its value widely across the world.

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Apr 25, 2017

Nearly 60 percent of travel managers recently surveyed identified travel management reporting and lower travel costs as top priorities for the New Year. With projections for “record corporate hotel rate increases,” flat airfares and conti...

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Apr 24, 2017

It’s common knowledge that US health care spending is an issue of concern and spiraling out of control. Voters rank health care as the single most important domestic issue. There’s growing awareness that the US doesn’t get the value...

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Apr 24, 2017

Companies need to take stock of their travel and expense (T&E) costs since these add up to unimaginable overheads. We believe the agamied T&E management system to be a viable solution. With millennials – who look for engaging and enric...

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Apr 18, 2017

Medical tourism has been gaining an important place in the globalized healthcare market. That of this research are to discover the possible methods in medical tourists to Joint Commission (JCI) accredited hospitals in Saudi Arabia and to measure the ...

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Apr 03, 2017

Data is not just a buzz word surrounding the travel and tourism industry, it is fundamentally changing every part of it. No decision should be made without supporting evidence, no marketing campaign started without market analysis, no pricing set wit...

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Mar 29, 2017

We live in an era of unprecedented connectivity. Technology and innovation have revolutionized travel and transport, communication and the way we share data. Effectively, barriers to travel have been reduced, improving links between nations and enabl...

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Mar 29, 2017

International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects c.1% of world GDP to be spent on air transport in 2016, totaling almost $750 Billion and estimated to grow at a healthy 6.9% in 2016. The industry as a whole is 02 Introduction bracing for increa...

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Mar 20, 2017

In the past decade, DMO head offices and ITOs have focused on adapting their tactics to the rapid shift in digital marketing. Most have not had the time to step back and assess the impact on team structure and functions. ITOs used to operate fairly i...

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Mar 15, 2017

DFID is comrnitted to maximising the contribution the private sector can make towards its poverty reduction goals through encouraging responsible business practices. Responsible business embraces economie, social and environmental as well as fmancial...

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Mar 11, 2017

Traveling is always a nightmare. Until you get to your destination, of course (well, hopefully!). While we’ve got the checklist and hacks for packing covered (see guide, tips + how many undies to bring), no one’s really provided us an all...

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Feb 21, 2017

The industry’s rapid evolution continues unabated. To profit through this turbulence, leaders must focus on what really matters—the customer. The landscape of travel distribution has been shifting. Until the mid-1990s, distribution was a ...

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Feb 13, 2017

Travel and hospitality are one of the fastest growing industries as consumers gravitate toward purchasing experiences rather than products. For companies in this industry, customer service is key to providing that sought-after experience.

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Feb 13, 2017

Travel and hospitality are one of the fastest growing industries as consumers gravitate toward purchasing experiences rather than products. For companies in this industry, customer service is key to providing that sought-after experience. The nature ...

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Feb 05, 2017

Pennsylvania has been a national leader in heritage tourism development for the past decade,
launching a number of state, regional and local
programs that have been replicated around the
country. But those responsible for Pennsyl...

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Jan 20, 2017

This study of real-world travel purchases, alongside detailed behavioral data, will help you to understand the steps consumers go through to arrive at their final bookings. EyeforTravel and Jumpshot tracked more than a quarter of a million travel pur...

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Jan 15, 2017

Back in the 80s, Forte Hotels launched Lady Crest-women-only floors in selected hotels. Lady Crest rooms were equipped with ironing boards, hairdryers, better mirrors, and spy holes – all features taken for granted today by any business travele...

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Dec 29, 2016

There’s a battle going on as we speak. A battle among travel suppliers, travel intermediaries, and travel destinations, all vying for the attention of prospective visitors. According to Expedia, the average leisure traveler these days visits 38...

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Dec 18, 2016

In an increasingly competitive business environment and with sharply rising demands for passenger and cargo mobility, the global transportation industry is going through a challenging time. Industry players need to look for innovative ways to improve...

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Dec 17, 2016

This document follows the process of the Travala.com design, development and execution. Travala.com is a decentralized travel booking marketplace that utilizes the NEO blockchain, reducing 3rd party interaction, whilst pledging a transparent operatio...

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Dec 17, 2016

This document follows the process of the Travala.com design, development and execution. Travala.com is a decentralized travel booking marketplace that utilizes the NEO blockchain, reducing 3rd party interaction, whilst pledging a transparent operatio...

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Dec 15, 2016

A revolution in payment control and simplicity, virtual card numbers (VCNs) are the new standard for corporate payments. They are as dramatic an improvement in the way people pay each other as the introduction of cheques in the 17th century or plasti...

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Dec 15, 2016

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world’s leading companies build stronger businesses.

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Dec 15, 2016

We all have our own reasons to travel – perhaps looking for a change of scenery, wanting a break from the daily routine, or seeing a different part of the world. Some of us feel the need to experience the foreign or to explore the differences. ...

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Dec 01, 2016

From small to large, nonprofit to Fortune 500, hundreds of corporations are using Egencia to manage their travel programmes and save time and money. The Egencia online booking tool is built with the same technology that powers Expedia and is a simple...

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Nov 28, 2016

As the number of people moving to and within cities increases, several challenges present themselves in regard to urban transportation. To start with, public transport systems often do not meet demand with respect to capacity, comfort or safety, whic...

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Nov 24, 2016

This AirPlus white paper delivers visionary answers based on research and predictions for future payment scenarios. The white paper will give readers a clearer idea of what should be in their personal focus and finally will enable them to create thei...

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Nov 18, 2016

The hospitality sector has taken on several changes
in the past. However, nothing has been nearly as
transformative as the digital movement.

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Nov 16, 2016

Travel and hospitality brands can’t afford to ignore the most significant change in their customers in decades: 81 percent of today’s travelers carry a smartphone, according to a Passenger IT Trends Survey.1 Not only do mobile devices and...

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Oct 21, 2016

Japan's tourism industry is on the verge of becoming a major economic engine for the country. In 2020, Japan will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games and enjoy a global platform for its people, culture, and landmarks. Recently, tourism has been...

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Oct 16, 2016

In the hospitality industry, where “experience is the product,” the ability to deliver excellent customer experiences is the only path to overall business success. If you’re a leader at a hotel, casino, airline, restaurant, car rent...

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Oct 11, 2016

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently unveiled its New Distribution Capability (NDC) program. According to IATA, the program, which defines a new technology standard with which airlines, travel agencies and travel technology pro...

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Oct 11, 2016

Business travel is the essence of change. Reservations systems have changed. Communications systems have changed. Payment systems have changed. Airplanes have changed. Travel policy expectations have changed. Inevitably, business travelers have also ...

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Sep 15, 2016

The sharing economy is the latest wave of disruption to hit travel. First, it rapidly transformed the possibilities for leisure travelers. Now, the great wave has impacted the world of managed travel.

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Jul 28, 2016

There has been a lot of talks recently about Marriott’s proposed acquisition of Starwood and what it would mean for guests, competitors, intermediaries, and the companies’ loyalty members if the transaction ultimately happens. Would SPG m...

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Jul 12, 2016

With US outbound journeys growing by nearly 8% in 2015, this huge market is one of the world’s largest and most dynamic. This white paper analyses the US outbound market from top-down and bottom-up perspectives, providing market sizing and fore...

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Jun 28, 2016

Data drives decisions. It should be the foundation of virtually every managed travel activity: creating and monitoring annual travel budgets, designing intelligent and usable policy, tracking compliance, informing supplier negotiations, and managing ...

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Jun 15, 2016

The point is that travel stereotypes and generalizations are now used as flippantly as hashtags, and if we’re not careful, we’ll drift worryingly deeper into regurgitated flimflam. Our perception of the planet and the countries and societ...

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Jun 06, 2016

Smart technologies reach into almost all aspects of life nowadays, although they are often not yet noticed by users and taken as a given in a lot of cases. This research project is concentrated on the iBeacon technology which is still rather new to t...

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Jun 04, 2016

New entrants are disrupting all facets of the travel industry. New traveler expectations of the service experience are challenging all of us to continually improve how we operate. New sources of data and information are challenging each travel brand ...

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May 15, 2016

We’ve been pushing the message that Jersey is a great place to visit. Tourism is a vital industry that brings growth and benefits to our island community.

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May 01, 2016

The objective of the overall Tourism Marketing Plan and Visitor Experience Bundles is to promote the geographical area as a consistent brand, increase the socio-economic benefits of tourism in the area and provide an enhanced visitor experience whils...

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Apr 25, 2016

The emergence of online travel agencies (OTAs) perfectly demonstrates the value of leveraging new technologies to disrupt existing industries. OTAs have an undeniable advantage over an individual hotel’s online presence as they can capitalize o...

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Apr 24, 2016

Explore the benefits of consolidating logistics and commercial travel with the launch of the CWT Energy, Resources & Marine and IBS Software Services white paper: Mining for Savings in Travel & Logistics. By combining logistics and commercial...

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Mar 18, 2016

In a scenario where you are planning a vacation to your favorite getaway or you are traveling on business. You would compare travel and hotel prices on multiple Online Travel Agencies (OTA) websites.

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Dec 08, 2015

Many travelers tell us that the air travel industry feels vast and complicated; that it’s hard to feel informed, let alone empowered about making the right choice when navigating the open skies.

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Dec 01, 2015

Whether short or long, weak or strong, simple or highly complex, travel policies form the backbone of most managed travel programs. Consequently, getting them aligned with corporate objectives, updated to reflect the latest marketplace nuances and st...

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Nov 24, 2015

LONDON, July 11, 2018: Hostelworld has revealed a 42% increase in solo bookings by travelers between 2015 and 2017. More and more people are choosing to travel solo and the noticeable trend in those ‘going it alone’ looks set to continue ...

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Nov 15, 2015

The global hospitality industry entered 2014 on an upward growth trajectory; a greater sense of optimism was palpable across most regions, as accelerating capital markets, favorable supply, and demand balances, and strong investor appetites fueled hi...

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Oct 11, 2015

Amadeus is a leading provider of advanced technology solutions for the global travel industry. Customer groups include travel providers (e.g. airlines, hotels, rail and ferry operators, etc.), travel sellers (travel agencies and websites), and travel...

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Oct 11, 2015

Big Data. It’s big. But it’s not just for the biggest corporations anymore. In fact, any serious company that oversees the consistent business travel of its employees can, with the right technology, use big data to help them determine whe...

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Sep 23, 2015

Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) is a non-profit association with a mission to foster, through collaboration and partnership, the development of next-generation systems and solutions that will enable hoteliers and their technology vendors to d...

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Sep 15, 2015

A growing popularity has recently been gained by medical tourism but there is no general agreement on a standard definition of this business with speculation-based insight and significant gaps of evidence-based knowledge due to an experiential consum...

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Sep 09, 2015

In today’s world the above quotation holds very true; with the growth of the medical tourism industry, human beings have started deriving benefits from their illnesses in the form of travel. This change has brought about a new industry called &...

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May 15, 2015

Modern accommodation providers are already harnessing the internet and implementing creative yield management strategies to boost their bottom line. But to stay relevant, small accommodation providers are getting smarter at adapting to emerging trend...

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Mar 30, 2015

The audit of travel and hospitality was included in the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) Risk-Based Audit Plan approved for the fiscal years 2014–15 to 2016–17. Given the Treasury Board’s (TB) enhanced coverage of conferenc...

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Mar 25, 2015

This White Paper - Women in Tourism and Hospitality: Unlocking the Potential in the Talent Pool – was produced by the Hospitality Industry Pipeline (HIP) Coalition and launched at the Women in Tourism and Hospitality Forum in Hong Kong on 5 Mar...

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Oct 30, 2013

The National Travel and Tourism Coalition
(NTTC) seeks to engage government in the
development of a new and comprehensive
national strategy for the growth of the travel
and tourism industry in Canada in order to
rea...

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Jun 11, 2010

A usability study was conducted to identify usability problems as well as recommendations for improvement for three travel sales websites. The study performed testing on twenty participants, between the ages of 19 and 65, recruited from the universit...

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Cosmetic surgery tourism is a price-driven phenomenon that has experienced increased growth over the past decade. Numerous companies offering all-inclusive vacation packages that include cosmetic surgery are popping up all over the world and can be e...

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Online hotel booking is a classic example of a market that heavily relies on intermediaries. This creates overheads at the expense of both customers and businesses while third parties keep control of customer data in silos and hinder customer relatio...

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Rapidly falling oil prices and high profile disasters have kept the region in the headlines. But as the region emerges into the Chinese New Year, conditions appear to be growing ever more ripe that will allow APAC to grow rapidly to become a travel d...

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EyeforTravel conducted a global survey amongst key travel executives in January to February 2011 with the aim of investigating distribution and marketing performance and perspectives for the quarter. This is the first edition of the Travel Distributi...