BIG DATA FOR BETTER TOURISM POLICY,MANAGEMENT, AND SUSTAINABLE RECOVERY FROM COVID-19

whitePaper | February 22, 2020

For most travel managers, corporate travel spend is expected to decrease while expectations for a pleasurable travel experience remain high. Of travel dollars going toward internal initiatives alone, most companies already spend more than 50% of their budget. In response, Advito’s April Bridgeman and LinkedIn’s Leslie Hadden share their tips to faciliate the most practical, enjoyable and cost-effective travel experiences for employees.

whitePaper | May 16, 2022

When we imagine the golden era of hospitality, visions of turn-of-thetwentieth-century grandeur and elaborate hotels with live-in general managers (GMs) come to mind. We think of these GMs briskly moving throughout the property, personally knowing each guest and taking care of their every need.

whitePaper | July 8, 2021

This whitepaper explains: Travel is an ultra-high-risk sector for card acquirers because most payments are for future delivery. If merchants fail to fulfill a service for which they have taken payment (often months in advance) customers can recover their money from the acquirer by initiating chargeback. Acquirers traditionally demand substantial cash collateral (holdbacks) or other financial security from travel merchants to mitigate this risk. Holdbacks lock away substantial funds for travel companies and can therefore be highly damaging to liquidity. High-profile collapses and the COVID-19 crisis have driven acquirers to impose harsher terms or quit the travel sector completely.

whitePaper | November 8, 2019

When it comes to booking business travel, whether you’re responsible for the travel arrangements of a small company with frequent, high-spending travellers, or a business owner who struggles to manage their own bookings, this guide will simplify everyday corporate travel processes. Flight Centre Business Travel has a team of over 170 Travel Experts that book business travel every day. There isn’t anything they don’t know about arranging corporate travel, which is why they’re our ‘experts’. And as Experts, they have some invaluable advice for others that are booking travel for business.

whitePaper | July 23, 2021

Business travel is a branch of the tourism industry focusing on visitors who travel for business and professional purposes. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), the share of GDP generated by the business travel market reached 0.7 percent in 2019. In that year, the business tourism spending worldwide - which has more than doubled since 2000 - peaked at roughly 1.28 trillion U.S. dollars. Corporations use a wide variety of ways to book from legacy booking systems to using regular consumer websites. It has given rise to modern Corporate Booking Platforms that are specifically made for this purpose, based on this trend we identified an enormous opportunity for a crypto company to jump on this trend and be able to have an extremely disruptive and superior go to market strategy.

whitePaper | September 5, 2021

In December 2020, Expedia Group conducted a study of 2,200 Americans in collaboration with data intelligence firm The Morning Consult to better understand how the travel industry has evolved since the outset of the pandemic, and the way consumersare feeling about traveling in the year ahead.