Meeting formats are changing
To help incentivize companies to book in-person gatherings, hotels have been thinking beyond the boardroom, leaning into unconventional experiences centered around team building, mental health, wellness, sustainability, and more.
With Cendyn, hotels can activate their unified data across revenue, eCommerce, distribution, marketing, and sales - at scale, in real-time, and across every channel.
Desire to travel to Europe this summer goes far beyond the inconveniences
Travelers to the continent can tack on climate disasters to a list of 2022 obstacles that include the evolving coronavirus, canceled flights, lost luggage, insane ticket prices, huge crowds and - yes - labor strikes.
Video an especially effective format for promoting travel
As the most downloaded app two years in a row, TikTok holds the promise of global reach, while the video format allows travel providers to transport viewers to a destination showcasing their brand personality.
Unmanaged accounts lead corporate travel recovery. American Airlines' business travel revenue is "fully recovered" compared with 2019, led by unmanaged or lightly managed accounts.
Expedia launches travel agent rewards program for lodging bookings. The TAAP Rewards program was introduced as a pilot test to a group of agents in July 2021, and is now expanded to all U.S. travel advisors.
Marriott hosts customer conference in NYC. THE EXCHANGE brought together 1,072 customers, hoteliers and industry leaders to engage and rally around new approaches to doing business.
Accessibility and diversity in travel. Expedia commissioned custom research to understand how consumers feel about inclusive travel, and how they believe the current travel landscape stacks up.
'Guilt-free travel' through offsets faces rocky road. Rather than claiming to compensate for emissions, companies could make a claim to contribute to climate action that also brings tangible benefits to people and environment.
Dubai launches metaverse strategy. It aims to turn Dubai into one the world’s top 10 metaverse economies as well as a global hub for the metaverse community.
Your Facebook feed is getting an update. The move shifts the Facebook experience more into line with TikTok, which calls itself an ‘entertainment app’, not a social network.
MEWS: Benefits of dynamic product pricing. Whether it’s age, day of the week, seasonality or other attributes, the flexibility of dynamic product pricing opens doors to new ways to meet revenue goals.
D-Edge: The three most important steps in digital hotel marketing. If you are not promoting your hotel on the web, someone else will do it … and you don’t want that to happen.