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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A new travel platform aims to majorly expand your options for racking up points. This week in Smart Travel, we cover all these updates, as well as Hilton’s next global move and a new study that reveals the major benefits of cruise travel to destination economies. Live in Central Florida?

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MARCH 18, 2024

Travel Association introduced Aimee Misako Gabel as the organization’s first senior vice president, events and education. Travel with a strong track record in meetings. Travel to ask about how she will apply her experience to this new, elevated role. Travel Association? Travel members are well-traveled.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

and China Drive Business Travel Recovery A new report by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) predicts business travel spending will reach a new height of $1.5 and China, whose business travel markets have expanded 13.4% trillion by the end of 2024. Key players are the U.S. million people).

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APRIL 18, 2024

Skift Meetings Studio Team Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: It's time to reevaluate the best destinations and properties for your events. Knowing what's new around the world is sure to give you plenty of new ideas.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Prince Harry’s Travalyst aims to provide clarity to sustainable travel. Refugio Garcia Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: Sustainability is flooded with authoritative-sounding designations and convoluted certifications.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Travel Association Says Airlines in the United States Are Sub-Par In a new quarterly press conference launched today , the U.S. Travel President and CEO, Geoff Freeman. Travel National Chair and Hilton President and CEO Chris Nassetta. Freeman was joined on the presentation by incoming U.S. Other issues that U.S.

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MAY 23, 2023

Skift Take: Skift Research reports complete travel recovery as the current Travel Health Index has topped 100, indicating that global tourism is now performing better than it did before the pandemic. Every region in the index has grown, and meeting professionals must take note.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Skift Take: Today’s incentive travelers want more than just a free trip — they demand deep, meaningful experiences that are good for the planet and food for the soul. Here are three ways incentive destinations can help travelers connect not just with each other but also with their purpose and place in the world.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Skift Take: Anna Marie Presutti is finding new ways to increase funds for the San Francisco Travel Association, which is crucial to revitalizing its meetings and events business. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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APRIL 6, 2023

United Adds New Non-Stops to 100+ International Cities This Summer to Meet ‘Soaring Overseas Travel Demand’ United Airlines has announced that it will fly to 114 different international cities this summer and has expanded its flying by 25% versus last year to meet the sharp increase in demand for travel outside of the U.S.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

Meeting booking platforms purport to streamline the RFP and venue sourcing processes, saving hours in the search for venues and back-and-forth with sales staff. The post Will Meeting Booking Platforms Ever Be as Automated as Travel Sites? The post Will Meeting Booking Platforms Ever Be as Automated as Travel Sites?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Travel Association is restructuring and, in its wake, has created a new position to increase group travel to the United States. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: U.S. Ishma Haider, director of convention marketing at Visit Orlando, will assume this new role.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Skift Take: The twists and turns of the global travel industry's recovery continue to impact how event destinations are selected. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Some effects are obvious, others not so much.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Skift Take: A chief travel officer role could streamline current business travel processes, but will this role be taken by a human or AI? Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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AUGUST 30, 2024

Welcome to Smart Travel, our weekly column where we share our latest tips and tricks to stay up to date on the can’t-miss news in travel. Today, we explore top travel apps and services, can’t-miss pricing for those planning a South American getaway, new international airline routes and more.

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JUNE 27, 2024

We reveal how event planners can inject the unexpected into their next off-site meeting by seeking out classic activities with a dash of quirkiness, creativity, and place. Arizona Office of Tourism Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Skift Take: By now it's old news that business professionals are looking for bleisure travel experiences. How can meeting planners and event organizers capitalize on this growing movement? Marriott Bonvoy Events™ Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Here are five ideas for five different types of events.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Skift Take: California's travel ban is no more. Refugio Garcia Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings State-sponsored events can once again take place in any of the 26 states previously banned. Instead, California will fund outreach to LGBTQ communities in those states.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

With leisure travel strong and transient business travel well below pre-pandemic levels, the number of flights into and out of some big cities are being cut. But with the post-pandemic situation quite different, that business-traveler perk seems to be going away, at least temporarily. percent lower than they were in June 2019.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

But as promising as this sounds, the hurdles facing SAF as a solution to the air-travel industry producing 2.5 A new means of offsetting carbon from air travel is converting carbon to non-degradable blocks for long-term storage, a process known as carbon casting. percent of global carbon emissions are significant.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Barbara Scofidio Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: A new generation of attendees will shape the incentive programs of the future driven by values like freedom, individuality and authenticity.

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JUNE 1, 2023

A significant percentage of meeting professionals say the NAACP’s advisory will be a factor in site selection. The responses came from 176 meeting professionals—from associations (35.6 We conduct too many meetings across the country to consider politics/social issues in the site selection process : 12.4%

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APRIL 21, 2023

In what may be a ground-changing move for hotels and meeting planners doing business in Florida, Brightline, the only intercity, eco-friendly high-speed rail in the U.S. The post Meeting Profs Travel Report: Brightline Adds Orlando appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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MAY 26, 2023

As travelers post “OOO” on their cell phones and head out to vacation time this long Memorial Day weekend, lower fares but full flights are indicative of some trends that may continue this summer. However, 2023 is predicted to be the most expensive for international travel in more than five years with fares to Europe up over 50% from 2022.

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JULY 17, 2024

Skift Take: The combined platform promises to be a new type of all-in-one offering combining meeting and travel management with venue and vendor sourcing. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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JANUARY 18, 2024

WTP’s Frank Harrison Shares the Top Three Business Travel Trends for the Coming Year Frank Harrison As the travel industry around the world continues to recover post-pandemic, new business travel trends have emerged that meeting professionals will have to master to optimize attendance.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meeting Means Business Coalition (MMBC) will fully integrate under U.S. Travel Association , after having close ties in meeting production over the years. Since its founding, Meetings Mean Business Coalition and U.S. The loss recorded in business travel spending in 2020 and 2021 is estimated at upwards of $315 billion.

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MAY 18, 2023

People are happy getting back to reclaim their life and their joy and people are traveling. Travel is something people are prioritizing. While these drawbacks have not yet put a dent in leisure travel demand, if this trend continues, travelers will reach a breaking point and some airline brands may be damaged.”

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MARCH 4, 2024

Hop on the train for travel and team-building For meeting professionals and their clients, traveling can be crucial to the job. Travelers may want to consider a more affordable and scenic experience—a good old fashioned train ride.

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MAY 29, 2024

Skift Take: Bleisure travelers don’t want the same old travel experiences they see on social media; they want to be the first in their friend group to explore and adventure somewhere new. Here’s how meeting planners can organize professional gatherings that fulfill that dream.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Meeting Profs Travel: Over Half of Passengers on Flights from China Test Covid-positive Hong Kong has announced the lifting of all mandatory PCR test requirements for inbound travelers; however, travelers coming to the U.S. The post Meeting Profs Travel Report appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

We’ll Always Have Paris…Until Beijing Takes Over A new study from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) shows Paris is the world’s most powerful “city destination” with almost $36 billion USD in 2022 in terms of direct GDP contribution to the city, but it also reveals that Paris will cede its place to up-and-coming Beijing by 2032.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Denver and Phoenix lead the way in the resurgence of business travel and meetings in the United States. The company says these bookings “very likely reflect travel by small and medium-sized businesses.”. See also : Border Openings Update: International Business Travel Restarts.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The San Francisco Travel Association now looks to Scott Beck to reverse that negative perception. Refugio Garcia Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: The recovery of San Francisco’s tourism and hospitality industry continues to be underscored by a narrative of lawlessness and economic demise.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

The US is easing its travel restrictions on international visitors as of November 8, 2021. The easing of the United States travel ban on international travelers is fast approaching. The post Make America Meet Again: What the US Reopening to Global Travel Will Mean for Events by Paul Cook appeared first on [link].

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JUNE 11, 2024

Skift Take: GBTA uncovers just how much business travel fueled the U.S. Meetings and events were a significant part of that. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings economy in 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Skift Take: Are you ready for the return of incentive travel? Sue Pelletier Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings. Here are six data-based trends to help you plan ahead. —

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