Travel Distribution & Marketing Barometer

whitePaper | August 22, 2022

Travel retail is a complex channel which includes airport retail (duty free & food services), cruise & ferry, border stores and other smaller channels. Airport retail is the biggest channel with a focus on international travellers. Retail is operated through a concession model which is costly for retailers which in turn must focus on high value and profit categories & products.

whitePaper | June 21, 2022

Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, global tourism had experienced a 10-year period of continuous growth fueled by the expansion of the global economy and the emergence of new tourism outflow markets in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Despite the headwinds from geopolitical and trade tensions, the slowing of economic growth as well as the collapse of Thomas Cook and certain European low-cost carriers, international tourist arrivals and receipts showed growth in 2019

whitePaper | December 16, 2019

The holiday season is quickly approaching, it’s essential that your destination or your hotel have the right Digital Marketing strategy guidelines laid out to boost engagement, visits and direct bookings.

whitePaper | October 31, 2022

Hospitality is an extremely challenging environment for designing and deploying Wi-Fi networks. The client device population of the guests literally changes on a nightly basis, so there is a constant barrage of new and unknown devices that are using the network. It is also quite common for guests to have multiple client devices (i.e., laptops, tablets, and smartphones) connected simultaneously, and to use their own devices for entertainment, such as streaming media from Netflix or Amazon Prime. Guests expect the same level of experience that they are used to at home

whitePaper | August 18, 2022

A vision for the perfect building What’s key is the synergy created in the building as a whole. It starts with the power that’s created using renewable sources of energy, which then feeds into the things that this power can do for the people within – from the infrastructure in the buildings right through to the emotional experience of the occupants, from the lowest parking level right through to the most exquisite penthouse suite.

whitePaper | March 15, 2022

t’s time to get back to in-person events – and to do so responsibly, in a way that minimises negative impacts on the environment. This white paper is designed to help travel and meetings professionals deliver the sustainable events their travellers and attendees expect.