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The City of Melbourne uses sentiment analysis provided through TSI Live to compare its tourism performance with competitors.

The UK's recent announcement that it was overhauling its destination marketing organizations, so-called DMOs, with a "radical restructuring" shows a new The UK’s destination marketing organizations (DMO) will undergo “radical restructuring,” the government announced Tuesday. The UK government will launch an accreditation program for destination marketing organizations and fund a pilot business model.

Qatar Airways will cut service to 30 destinations world wide and may lose money during the World Cup in Doha later this year.

As the meetings and events industry levels out after the pandemic shutdown, mergers and acquisitions are heating up.

Although face-to-face events are back, attendance is certainly not at 2019 levels.. What is causing attendees to stay home?

Are meetings too complicated for instant booking? New online booking platforms are allowing meeting planners to secure group bookings online.

Expedia Group has been busy shedding non-core brands to simplify, so why did it just expand a travel agent program into 53 new countries?

The "Destinations and Their Impact on Motivation" study delves into the new trends of incentive travel and site selection.

Now that in-person events are increasingly common once again, what are you enjoying about being out in the world? Anything that surprises you?

The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday will unveil a new strategy aimed at boosting international tourism hit hard by COVID-19 and government travel

Amid incessant global disruptions, from war to inflation and a zoonotic virus that has spread to 11 countries through cross-border movement, travelers

Peering in from the outside, it can appear that the multi-day tour sector is lagging in digital transformation when compared to almost every other sector of travel. We don't see the layers of digital infrastructure and haven't seen the money that can flow with them

“The pandemic has merged all boundaries of work and personal lives, in many cases permanently. And technology and life have adjusted to address this new reality of ours,” Rafat Ali, founder of Skift said about The Great Merging. This was the focus of Skift’s Future of Lodging Forum held May 11-12 in New York City, […]

A scarcity of the new generation of participants at today's events leads to diverse attempts at attracting this demographic.

They've seen their position reinvented again since the start of the pandemic, being asked to play different roles to help consumers navigate an environment still replete with travel restrictions and constantly changing Covid regulations.

Pace of meeting recovery speeds up fueled by smaller meetings and events of 200 attendees or less.

Airbnb has selected 20 destinations that will receive landing pages on the platform that are intended to serve as a “one-stop shop” for remote workers.

Barcelona is trying to avoid limiting the growth of its tourism industry, yet again, balancing an economic reboot and residents’ needs.

The pace of industry growth in the U.S. has again picked up, with a 12.5 percent increase in May over April 2022, according to Knowland.

In the wake of the pandemic’s disruptions, convention centers are going all in on human-centered needs — plus broadcast capabilities, nature, and outdoor spaces — to bring back groups.

Not only is business travel back with some ferocity, how people travel for business — and indeed leisure — has changed. Amongst the most fascinating changes has been which departments within companies are now traveling and how that compares to pre-pandemic makeup of business travelers. Based on latest data from the corporate travel agency TripActions […]

A first-quarter report from CEIR reveals significant growth since 2021, though still well below prepandemic levels.