Brand USA

TTG Media | September 17, 2018

The event will comprise a series of B2B meetings and educational opportunities designed for the trade. Brand USA Travel Week will be held over September 9-13, 2019, aimed at increasing UK-US tourism. It was announced on Monday (September 17) during the second annual Brand USA Destination Marketing and Convention and Visitors Bureau Workshop in London. The workshop, said the US destination marketing authority, provides US destinations and their reps in the UK and Europe the chance to learn...

Travelpulse | May 03, 2018

Brand USA, the destination marketing organization for the United States, has singlehandedly increased visitation to this country by millions, which has led to billions in spending. A new return on investment (ROI) study conducted by Oxford Economics, which was presented to the Brand USA board of directors this week, showed that since the fiscal year 2013 Brand USA’s efforts are directly responsible for increasing international visitation by an incremental 5.4 million travellers. What's...

Travel Trends Today | January 16, 2020

EbixCash, a fully owned subsidiary of Ebix, announced a strategic travel technology partnership with Amadeus to grow its footprint across the Asia Pacific region and UAE and become a one-stop shop for travel. The partnership will provide EbixCash’s online websites, travel agents and corporations in Asia Pacific and UAE with greater access to the unrivalled breadth of content offered by the Amadeus Travel Platform, enabling EbixCash to better serve its customers. Built on fully open systems...

Travel Weekly | January 14, 2020

Direct Travel , a roll-up of travel management companies based in the Denver area, has acquired Professional Travel of Cleveland (No. 31 on the Power List). Terms of the acquisition, Direct Travel’s largest in the U.S. to date, were not disclosed. According to Direct Travel, Professional Travel has more than 175 employees with sales of $448 million. Professional Travel’s leadership team will remain in place following the acquisition. “We’re enthusiastic to begin this new ...