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Some chief executive officers are so eager for their employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 that they’re granting workers time off or cash incentives to get shots.

The pandemic closed borders, halted air travel and emptied destinations of tourists. As its first anniversary nears, we look at how six places dependent on the industry have adapted to the disruption.

Corporate travel retreats will be big business, as companies take over hotels to reunite staff after long periods of remote working.

Boring boardrooms are out and beaches are in, according to business travel executive Evan Konwiser.

The IMEX Group has partnered with creative agency Smyle to produce a series of digital activations leading up to IMEX America in November.

LinkedIn’s vice president of Global Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging hopes that insights from the company’s most recent inclusion report will spark necessary change in all workplaces.

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We explore lessons from China's travel and tourism industry during COVID-19.

Events and marketing specialist Rachael Kenny on why the experience economy should be the focus of our economic growth after Covid-19.

It’s generally not a vote of confidence in the strength of an industry when the leading trade group in the sector offers retraining education for laid-off and furloughed workers. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is sending just such a message with a new course aimed to help laid-off cabin crew employees find new jobs …

The future of meetings and events has become so much clearer after the last year and our team is equipped to support it in all of its forms. 

The association's BTI Outlook forecasts a 21 percent increase in business travel spending this year and significant growth in group meeting activity in 2022.

The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) recently announced some details of its MICE revival plan after receiving almost HK$765 million (US$1 million) from the government as part of the 2021-22 Budget.

After being sidelined for nearly a year, every one of Delta's 1,713 pilots is being returned to active service after the global pandemic brought flying to

Gross bookings in Latin America, which rose 3% to $57.4 billion in 2019, have plunged to 62% in 2020. One positive trend across the travel market is the continued growth of online distribution. We've taken the key highlights from Phocuswright latest travel research report on the region, Latin America Travel Market Report 2020-2024, and put them into an infographic that outlines the state of the market.

Every day, I check the CDC site to track how many shots have gone into arms. The quickening pace of vaccinations, along with the approval of a third

It’s a brutal week for hotels, as some of the industry’s largest companies reported staggering financial losses last year due to the pandemic.

About 37 percent of U.S. workers said that the lack of business travel in 2020 demotivated them, according to a survey released this week by InterContinental Hotels Group. 

A new Social Impact Paper released by WTTC reveals that the travel and tourism sector has enriched people at a faster rate than the overall economy.

Trends expert Daniel Levine sees the near future of live events as “nothing less than spectacular.” For special events company owner Kevin Molesworth, the picture is less rosy.

The rapid shift to virtual events has revolutionized the way event planners operate in 2021, but what of the parallel shift to working from home? In many ways, remote working itself has had a marked effect on how (and how well) planning teams operate.

The UK-based Meetings Industry Association recently released new research about how long the events industry can go on the way things are — and it doesn't look good. Here's our take.

The abrupt digitalization of the workplace in 2020 led to a surprise boom in a somewhat new form of corporate travel in the following years.