Dana Communications

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Venice…and its volume of visitors As a bucket list destination for generations of travelers, Venice has seen the downside of overtourism. In 2017 alone, the city welcomed 36 million international visitors. Soil and vegetation erosion attributed partly to daily tours helped cause serious mudslides in 2010 and 2017.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 12, 2018

You can also go to the Event App Bible 2017: Reboot if you want to start building event apps this year. Brand New Destinations That Will Attract Avid Travelers in 2018. Most travelers now crave the uncharted and are willing to venture there just for the unique experience. Learn from the Best Music Festival Activations of 2017.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

JULY 26, 2024

Remember, Safari and Firefox started blocking third-party cookies back in 2017. Join Advance Travel and Tourism as they demystify what’s happening to third-party cookies and how that impacts marketers. The post The Cookie Rollercoaster Continues appeared first on Advance Travel and Tourism. Our industry is evolving.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 20, 2021

Under Whitaker’s leadership, Chicago was voted Best Big City by Conde Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards from 2017-2020. “I I am honored, thrilled and blessed to have the opportunity to return home,” Whitaker said. He is coming back to an expanding Miami.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Blockchain Ticketing: The distributed database transaction system developed around Bitcoin could be a boon for event professionals as counterfeit-proof ticketing would streamline operations for large events, making scalping and ticket fraud so 2017. Travel Tech: Biorecognition could eliminate lengthy screening lines at airports.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 13, 2022

Read More: NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference Starts with Hopeful Vision of Return to Travel. IHG has had steady growth over the past few years, even in the face of the pandemic hitting the travel industry especially hard. Since 2017, it has acquired or launched six brands to add to its portfolio.

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Dana Communications

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Today, were sharing the ways its overlapping manifestations rising seas, extreme weather, higher temperatures and melting glaciers affect the travel industry. Hurricane Maria (a Category 4 storm) caused such catastrophic damage to Puerto Rico in 2017 that it was considered a humanitarian crisis. of drought and wildfires.

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Dana Communications

MAY 2, 2023

Since many of these states are still hammering out policy and licensing, we looked to the west to uncover travel trends from destinations who first blazed the legalization trail. NOTE: We did not look into data beyond 2019, as the pandemic virtually extinguished travel in 2020 and overall visitation is only beginning to course correct.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2022

Sustainability efforts are key to keep the travel and tourism train going. In a report by World Travel & Tourism Council and JLL, “ Destination 2030: Global Cities’ Readiness For Sustainable Tourism Growth ,” the two organizations take a look at the cities making tourism sustainable. In 2020, leisure travel accounted for 80.4%

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Smart Meetings

MAY 4, 2021

Anderson serves on the board of directors for United States Travel Association (USTA), is an executive committee member of Meetings Mean Business Coalition, co-chair of USTA CEO Roundtable and is a member on Destination International’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 22, 2021

Destinations International (DI) unveiled its 2021 Hall of Fame inductees and Destination Organization Leadership Award recipient.

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Dana Communications

JANUARY 17, 2022

When the global pandemic that started unfolding in 2020 shifted all of our lives dramatically, it fueled a wellness crisis—physical, mental and spiritual—in addition to putting the brakes on travel and resulting tourism revenue. The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) projects that after the 2017-2019 boom and then bust of -39.5%

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2024

He brings over 30 years of expertise in the travel and tourism industry and has served in executive roles local to the region for 15 years. He served as vice president of sales for RSCVA since 2017 and is a third-generation Nevadan. Cory Rosenberg Cory Rosenberg, PRA Rosenberg joins PRA as regional vice president.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Travel Association, speaks Wednesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Travel Association). The travel industry won’t fully recover until the meeting industry recovers, Roger Dow, president and CEO of U.S. Travel Executive Vice President of Public Affairs and Policy Tori Emerson Barnes said at the press conference.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A post shared by Oinkari Basque Dancers (@oinkariboise) on Jul 29, 2017 at 3:19pm PDT. 60 percent of travelers post on social media daily. Wellness trips are up 200 percent as compared to 2017. Itineraries catered to friend-group travel, LGBTQ travel and solo travel are trending. Shawna Suckow.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

1 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Nashville was named No. ” Cvent Top Meeting Destinations | North America As pandemic restrictions eased and travel returned, convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) worked diligently to promote their cities and revive the industry as quickly as possible, and those efforts are paying off.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Visit Houston President and CEO Mike Waterman described the first months of 2017 as “bad ass.” We marketed around traveling with a purpose,” Waterman said. The CVB and travel industry have to speak with one voice and be the primary source of reliable information,” Epton said. Strangers Stepped Up. Hospitality Strong Won Day.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Measures in sustainability have been implemented across the board in tourism and hospitality industries, from more sustainable forms of travel to eco-friendly practices at hotels and meetings venues. Hospitality, Tourism Industries Combat Climate Change. Local Government Takes Action.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Before her new position, Berwick was global marketing director for Reed & Mackay Travel Ltd. Pereira’s hospitality career began with Westin Grand Cayman in 2017, when she began as pool and beach concierge. Victoria Berwick. Berwick is global marketing director for CWT. Jordan Steffan.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

There was a 71% increase in online searches for sustainable goods — plus, public concern for the environment has grown by 16% since 2017. They’re incredibly eco-friendly because they don’t require travel, hotel stays, or catering. Sustainability is a hot-button issue for consumers around the globe. Plan a Virtual Event Instead.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Best Destination-Based Experiential Incentive Travel Program. Excellence in Incentive Travel: Africa/Middle East. Excellence in Incentive Travel: Asia Pacific. Program: US Foods President’s Cup 2017. Excellence in Incentive Travel: Europe. Excellence in Incentive Travel: Latin America & Caribbean.

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2018

The LeadDog Marketing Group took to the airports for the first National Business Travel Day. They installed luxury lounges that gave travelers a chance to win various raffle prizes. According to Forbes this 2017, being an event coordinator lands squarely in the 5th most stressful job in their ranking.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 19, 2018

MTV’s 2017 Video Music Awards would be the perfect inspiration. Of course, this means putting yourself in the shoes of your participants, trying to understand what they want to gain out of attending your event, as well as how they travel on their event journey. The stage is the centerpiece of most events.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

JT welcomes Kevin Coffey, a travel security and meeting risk advisor, who brings decades of expertise from his time as a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department’s LAX Airport Crimes Investigation Detail. Kevin Coffey : Kevin Coffey is our travel security and meeting risk advisor and trainer. He was a detective.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2017, Choice Hotels International Inc., The conversion trend itself goes beyond just converting existing hotels into brands owned by hospitality conglomerates. Some properties are converting buildings which previously served other purposes. for instance, began looking to convert vacant Washington, D.C.-

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Sojern

JULY 27, 2021

Real-time and historical data, machine learning techniques and a multichannel marketing strategy—that’s the recipe for travel marketer success in a cookieless world. One of the key market shifts that will impact every travel marketers’ future is the demise of the third-party cookie. But that’s not as simple as it sounds.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Right now, COVID-19 is so big in the news that no event wants to get on a headline that says ‘five people contracted COVID-19 here’ or ‘it’s a superspreader event’ ” He reminds listeners about the 2017 – PAX West and the swine flu outbreak that took place there.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 24, 2023

Since 2017, in the United States, 135 brands have premiered,” Ford reported. People are buying hotels, building hotels and renovating hotels because Mexico was pretty open to most travelers during the pandemic,” he said. That is leading to record conversions. Mexican resorts did very, very well during the pandemic.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2018

You need to think of smaller costs like taxes, fees, gratuity, marketing, and travel. Here are some things to consider for budget line items: Costs to travel to your event: Is there a room block for your event? Don’t stop at just the big-ticket items like your venue, food and beverage, and AV (although these do make it on the list).

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Motivation Excellence

JANUARY 30, 2019

A sunny forecast is on the horizon for Incentive Travel, according to the Incentive Research Foundation. The average spend has increased in both 2017 and 2018, compared to previous years, with one in two buyers reporting a rise in their overall incentive travel budget and the number of eligible participants.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Travel Association and The Downtown DC Business Improvement District, has seen that associations are getting 30% or more attrition and it is more difficult to have in-person, one-on-one meetings when many are working from their kitchen in the suburbs and some from second homes in the Caribbean. The needs of the customer have changed.”

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2019

October 2017. PSAV President and CEO, Mike McIlwain stated in the press release “The addition of SAV is an important step toward PSAV’s goal of being the ultimate local resource for corporate, association, and event planners around the globe.”. PSAV acquires Hawthorn Theatrical, LTD. January 2018.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

And 946 books have been donated since 2017. Long-range plans include offsetting air travel impacts and increasing renewable energy at Mandalay Bay Convention Center to 100%. Since 2012, the conference has been tracking diversion, recycling and reuse and has averaged an 86% diversion rate.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2018

Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts has received a patent for its “guest room of the future ,” which is designed to help meeting professionals and other business travelers enhance their productivity in a space that fits their lifestyle. It includes the following key components.

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DCI

APRIL 27, 2023

The results are in and in 2023 Canadian travelers are on the move more than ever, thanks in no small part to the lifting of pandemic-era restrictions. Following the 2020 edition, this newest version provides insight into the habits and preferences of outbound Canadian travelers along their “path to purchase” for international leisure travel.

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DCI

MARCH 15, 2023

With pandemic era restrictions mostly a thing of the past , Canadian leisure travelers are in high demand, and fresh 2023 Canadian traveler research is helping marketers understand what’s new. The results in this new report build upon the 2017 and 2020 editions with a host of fresh results and data.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2017, after similar allegations of hostility toward Black travelers, NAACP issued an advisory that warned travelers of the potential for discrimination. The advisory was removed in 2018 after American agreed, among other things, to create a DEI advisory council.

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