Fusion Travel Management —Merging Eastern innovation with Western practice

China has partially missed out on the PC age and gone straight to the mobile age. That means it has also missed out on some problems PC-era technology is causing Western travel managers. China is creating mobile booking and payment innovations not yet seen in the West.

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Amtrak Vacations combines the thrill of riding the rails with inclusive travel packages throughout North America. Travel to amazing cities, scenic landscapes and spectacular national parks with the option to depart from the more than 500 Amtrak rail stations across the country.

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NATURE POSITIVE TRAVEL & TOURISM

whitePaper | September 22, 2022

Travel & Tourism are intrinsically linked to biodiversity and nature. Over half of Travel & Tourism demand is driven by the desire to explore nature, whether it is an international safari of a lifetime or a day trip exploring the countryside. Furthermore, Travel & Tourism is one of six economic sectors with over 80% of its goods and services highly dependent on nature. Similarly, conservation efforts, protected areas and local economies are fuelled by Travel & Tourism revenue and the presence of visitors. In literary terms, nature and biodiversity are the book and the Travel & Tourism sector is the publisher. This interdependence places our sector in a unique position to protect our planet’s natural wonders.

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Ten Principles for Sustainable Destinations: Charting a new path forward for travel and tourism

whitePaper | September 27, 2022

The World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Sustainable Tourism has developed the following principles to guide businesses, governments, destinations, travellers and resident communities to better design and manage tourism destinations and practices for many years to come. Over the past 50 years, international arrivals have grown from 200 million to close to 1.6 billion. This tremendous growth in international connectivity and travel has had countless economic and societal benefits worldwide, not least the contribution of 10% of global GDP in recent years and as the generator of 1 in every 10 jobs

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Enabling Safe, Secure and Seamless Travel to Accelerate Border Controls

whitePaper | December 7, 2022

Despite significant advances throughout travel and tourism, many aspects of international travel remain encumbered by manual processes that are susceptible to fraud. For many years, aspiring voices from government and industry have advocated a vision of better travel experiences. A vision where outdated paper-based processes are replaced by modern digital processes that include strong identity assurance; and where passengers can travel from anywhere to anywhere using just their Digital Identity1 But as both the travel and tourism sectors – and the technology that underpins them – have been transformed, it is important for governments to begin developing their own strategies to deliver safe, secure and seamless travel for all international travelers, regardless of their mode of transport.

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High availability -Solutions and implementations

whitePaper | September 8, 2022

With ever-increasing pressure to remain online and attend to customer needs, IT systems need to constantly review and adapt their solutions on how to cope with system failures and resume operation in the shortest amount of time, with minimum to no material/data loss. This is reflected in the variety of High Availability solutions available and number of business case scenarios that they address

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2022 Deloitte travel outlook

whitePaper | June 1, 2022

As travel moves toward recovery, new forces will shape its futureThe COVID-19 pandemic disrupted several industries, but travel fell particularly hard and fast. US air passenger volume plummeted by more than 90% in March 20201and in April 2020 U.S. hotel occupancy dove to 25%.2 Travel showed its resilience when relief arrived in the form of vaccines. Pent-up demand surfaced quickly; Americans’ intent to make bookings doubled across most travel categories from February to September 2021.

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The hotel of the future 2022

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

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