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By Prabhjeet Singh, President, India & South Asia at Uber Travel industry is always at the forefront of innovation and as we look at building…
By Prabhjeet Singh, President, India & South Asia at Uber Travel industry is always at the forefront of innovation and as we look at building…
By Ajay Prakash, President at TAFI – Travel Agents Federation of India Two years ago the world changed – and changed beyond recognition. Everything that…
By Riaz Munshi, President at OTOAI – Outbound Tour Operators Association of India The travel industry has been incredibly resilient for the last two years.…
By Tejbir Singh Anand, Vice Chairman at Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism & Hospitality (FAITH), Founder & Managing Director at Holiday Moods Adventures Pvt…
By Kamal Gill, Managing Director at OptiMICE Events What is the new face of MICE post-pandemic? Well, “it’s something old, something new, something known, something out-of-the-blue”.…
By ITB Community and Hoshang Garivala, Director of Operations – India at Oakwood As the travel industry worldwide is recovering from the COVID-19 crisis, we…
By Laura Houldsworth, Managing Director & Vice President of Asia Pacific at Booking.com The world we live in is a different one from two years…
By BER – Berlin Brandenburg Airport India has given the world the Holi festival, the Hindu spring festival, also called the “festival of colours”. In…
By Linus Benjamin Bauer, Managing Director at Bauer Aviation Advisory As I got back to work after a two-week holiday earlier this year, I added…
By Lize de Kock, Marketing Communications Director at TrustYou While face-to-face interaction and visible emotion have been somewhat eroded within the current pandemic regulations, personalized…
By Hicham Rajraji, Owner & Managing Director at Real Travel Service – RTS Group The global tourism market crossed 8 trillion USD in 2017. It…
By Dhiren Savla, Chief Information Officer at VFS Global After more than a year of disruptions and lockdowns, the world was on the move again towards…
By Elitza (Elly) Stoilova, CEO at Umni.bg Have you heard about Edward from Radisson Blu Edwardian London? Three years after his creation in 2016, he…
By Cory Falter, Principal at Lure Agency What do you think of when you hear the term “influencer?” What about a “travel influencer?” There’s a…
By Mark Rademaker, Global Head Hospitality at Adyen Metrics such as occupancy and revenue likely will return to pre-pandemic levels, but the hospitality industry has…
By Stefanie Goldbrich at bd4travel A look at how eCommerce has changed the way people book travel – and what the future holds eCommerce has…
By Petrina Goh, Director at CWT Meetings & Events Singapore (This article was published previously on the CWT blog section) The world of events is recovering,…
By Max Starkov, Adjunct Professor NYU Tisch Center for Hospitality and Hospitality & Online Travel Tech Consultant The classic philosophy in hospitality goes like this:…
By Amiad Soto, CEO at Guesty While the entire world and hospitality industry has been rocked by COVID-19, travel isn’t slowing down. One and a half…
By Mike May, President at Brightspot Incentives & Events Communication makes or breaks sales incentive programs. During an interview on sales incentive trends, a reporter asked…
By ITB Community and Dana Dunne, CEO at eDreams ODIGEO With customers now expecting a personalised travel experience at their fingertips, it is essential that…
By Marc Truyols, Regional Director of Sales EMEA at Hotelmize Organizations in the travel and hospitality sectors often run market analyses to learn what their…
By Martin R P Garnaud, Customer Experience and Engagement Strategist, Asia Pacific at Collinson Customer loyalty is a tale of relevance, satisfaction and enduring relationships. In…
By ITB Community and Bertrand Saillet, Managing Director, Asia at FCM Travel ITB Community had a conversation with Bertrand Saillet, Managing Director, Asia at FCM…
By Xinyi Liang-Pholsena Southeast Asia’s startup and tech talent pool is flourishing, but the hospitality industry is just getting into the digital innovation game. With…
By Wego Travel This article has been reviewed by Wego’s editorial team to ensure that the content is up to date & accurate. Last year in December,…
By ITB Community and Markland Blaiklock, Deputy CEO at Centara Hotels & Resorts As the world tries to anchor itself amidst the COVID-19 crisis, we…
By Donggun Lee, Founder & CEO at MyRealTrip COVID-19 has changed the business of OTAs and created new opportunities. As you may know, COVID-19 forced…
By Kelly Craighead, President & CEO at CLIA – Cruise Lines International Association As travel industry representatives, we all can appreciate that the global pandemic…
By ITB Community and Rainer Stampfer, President, Hotel Operations – APAC at Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts As the world tries to anchor itself amidst…
By Daniel Cantorna, Vice President, Data, Insight and Technology, Asia Pacific at Collinson Expedited by the pandemic, consumers’ online behaviours and expectations have dramatically changed. Highly sophisticated…
By Tourism Promotions Board Philippines Spread across 7,641 islands, big and small, the Philippines is more than just the thrill of Manila for big city…
By Mike May, President at Brightspot Incentives & Events As children, the playground teeter-totter was fascinating. We could push off the ground and make our little…
By Chew Tiong Heng, Divisional Director, Business and Experience Development at Sentosa Development Corporation It has been almost two years since COVID-19 engulfed the world.…
By Simon Lomas, COO at Shenzhen World As venues have re-opened, we have had to implement many changes to maintain safe environments for our visitors…
By ITB Community and Joon Aun Ooi, President, Asia Pacific at Wyndham Hotels & Resorts As the world tries to anchor itself amidst the COVID-19 crisis, we…
By Daniel Cantorna, Vice President, Data, Insight and Technology, Asia Pacific at Collinson The pandemic has changed the way we transact. Cut off from our…
By Ministry Of Tourism and Creative Economy, Indonesia The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the Tourism Industry and Creative Economy in Indonesia. No big deal, since…
By Lee Cheh Hsien, Divisional Director, Planning, Sentosa Development Corporation Sustainability has become a focal point globally, prompted by the alarming increase in global temperatures,…
By Seoul Tourism Organization Digital Transformation is the fundamental. Sometime after the pandemic was declared, the Virtual Seoul platform was created to represent the actual…
By Sarawak Tourism Board World-renowned environmentalist, Robert Swan said, “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” The…
By BER – Berlin Brandenburg Airport Berlin is a pulsating, cosmopolitan city. The cultural landscape of Berlin is as multi-faceted as the city itself. In…
By Penang Global Tourism It’s time to Experience Penang, The Diversity of Asia through its incredible diversity in culture, heritage, arts, food as well as…
By Tourism Authority of Thailand What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Thailand? Is it a picturesque tropical scene…
By Patricia Alonso, CMO at Hotelmize Over the last year, the tech revolution has accelerated within the travel industry. Some of the innovations are either…
By Benjamin Boesch, Chief Digital Officer at VFS Global Digital customer experiences are progressing rapidly, with big and small competitors, fuelled by venture capital investments,…
By Or Izchak, Software Developer at Hotelmize AI has made advances in many industries since it was invented. The ever-changing travel industry is also taking…
By Victor Tseng, CFO at KKDay The opportunities for the travel experiences industry are very big but still very nascent in terms of digitalization, especially…
By Igor Bobriakov, Hotelmize 1. Are Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence the same thing? The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or the new era of technology, is…
By Anthony Lu, Regional Director, Partner Services for China & Mekong at Booking.com COVID-19 has amped people’s awareness about their impact on the environment and…
By Calvin Xie, General Manager – China at FCM Travel The past one and a half years will go down in history as a time…
By ITB Community and Forrest Zhang, Managing Director – Greater China at Hotelbeds As the world tries to anchor itself amidst the COVID-19 crisis, we…
By Kei Shibata, Co-Founder & CEO at Venture Republic Group – TRAVEL jp & Trip101 Metasearch is still a powerful tool in travel but over…
By Benjamin Boesch, Chief Digital Officer at VFS Global COVID-19 is not the first virus outbreak that the world has witnessed. However, the main distinction…
By ITB Community and Dan Rivlin, CEO at Kenes Group As the world tries to anchor itself amidst the COVID-19 crisis, professional conference organisers (PCOs)…
By Hotelmize On the 9th of November, 2020, it was announced that BioNTech and Pfizer made one of the candidates for a COVID-19 vaccine that showed…
By ITB Community and Bertrand Saillet, Managing Director, Asia at FCM Travel From the need to rethink corporate travel policies and demand of touchless alternatives…
By Belinda Shillcock, Regional Managing Director at Abercrombie & Kent Southeast Asia As the world begins to slowly reopen, incentive travel is being re-defined too,…
By Philippa Kaye, Founder of Indian Experiences At the start of the pandemic, there were a lot of reactions as to what would save tourism…
By Ben Taylor, CEO, APAC at George P Johnson “Unprecedented”, “the new normal”, “we’re pivoting to virtual”, “you’re on mute”, “…This event will start in…
By Jiten Vyas, Regional Group Chief Operating Officer – Australasia, China, Africa and Europe & CIS at VFS Global Owing to Coronavirus pandemic, few industries…
By Jennifer Birch, Writer For many explorers who thrive on wanderlust, the current state of travel and tourism today is a disappointing outlook. As COVID-19…
By Ritu Mehrotra, Regional Manager, South Asia at Booking.com COVID-19 has widely disrupted the travel and tourism industry, impacting the way people travel. The pandemic…
By Oliver Dlouhy, Co-Founder & CEO, Kiwi.com Airlines and online travel agencies (OTAs) are working on ways to operate in the post-pandemic world. Will there…
By Rohit Kapoor, CEO, India & South-East Asia (INSEA), OYO The last 15 to 18 months for the entire world have been extraordinary: we have…
By Carl Jones, Vice President, Head of Travel, Asia Pacific & Greater China at SAP Concur I was delighted to be invited to speak at…
By Sandeep Dwivedi, COO, InterGlobe Technology Quotient In the first two decades of 2020, we witnessed two of the worst economic recessions – one caused…
By ITB Community and Abraham Alapatt, President & Group Head – Marketing, Service Quality, Value Added Services & Innovation at Thomas Cook India At a…
By ITB Community and Prashanth Rao Aroor, Board Director at IntelliStay Hotels and Founder at The Avatar Hotel It cannot be denied that leading any…
By Deepak Narula, Managing Director, GRNconnect.com We need a bold new thinking and energy to bring back the true spirit of travel to travellers. This…
By Wego Travel This article has been reviewed by Wego’s editorial team to ensure that the content is up to date & accurate. Due to the coronavirus…
By Sanjeev Joshi, President, SITE India and Nitin Sachdeva, President Elect, SITE India We all know that COVID-19 has adversely impacted tourism and hospitality. Yet…
By ITB Community and Bertrand Saillet, Managing Director, Asia at FCM Travel With a significant change in the proportion of which corporate travel makes up…
By Wego Travel This article has been reviewed by Wego’s editorial team to ensure that the content is up to date & accurate. With vaccination drives ramping…
By Ang Choo Pin, Managing Director, Asia & Senior Director Government and Corporate Affairs, Asia at Expedia Group 2020 has been a tumultuous year for…
By Monica Pitrelli, Editor, CNBC’s Global Traveler A new type of traveler is emerging from this pandemic. What are destinations doing to attract these travelers…
By ITB Community and Michael Marshall, CCO at Minor Hotels It cannot be denied that leading any part of a hotel business in 2021 is…
By Anthony Lim, President at The Travel Corporation, Asia and Managing Director, Asia at Insight Vacations and Luxury Gold No business makes it through a…
By Angie Stephen, Vice President, Asia Pacific at Royal Caribbean Cruises Like you, I am anxious for travel to start again. We are in the…
By Wego Travel This article has been reviewed by Wego’s editorial team to ensure that the content is up to date & accurate. The endless possibilities of…
By Noelle Chong, Founder, Wanderprime Travel Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has come to a halt with the hospitality and tourism sector being the…
By Neil Rogan, Head of Global External Communications, Amadeus Predicting the future is impossible but imagining a way forward is critical. That’s why each year…
By Colin Hannan, Co-Founder, Proven Partners After a devastating 2020, the hotel industry is starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel…
By Wego Travel This article has been reviewed by Wego’s editorial team to ensure that the content is up to date & accurate. The month of December…
By Wego Travel Let’s be honest: Who in 2019 could have predicted that a microscopic organism would come out of the blue and like a…
By Biji Eapen, Chairman & CEO of Speedwings Aviation Academy and President of IAAI (IATA Agents Association of India) The COVID-19 outbreak in India and…
By Abraham Alapatt, President & Group Head – Marketing, Service Quality, Value Added Services & Innovation at Thomas Cook India As we went into the…
By World Animal Protection COVID-19 and the situation we’re in today is widely believed to have started at a wet market in Wuhan in China.…
By ITB Community and Puneet Dhawan, Senior Vice President of Operations – India & South Asia at Accor ITB Community had a conversation with Puneet…
By Anand Srinivasan, CCO, Travel Designer Group Rapidly evolving travel restrictions, changing consumer preferences and an economy waking up from the pandemic shock. The multiple…
By Aaron Lim, Group HR Director, Park Hotel Group While a global pandemic has been a looming risk for decades, COVID-19 has come as a shock to…
By Aaron Lim, Group HR Director, Park Hotel Group Seen this cartoon? It’s true! Everyone wants to see change, but to embrace and follow through…
By Singapore Tourism Board “By showing how countries can consistently comply with hygiene and safety measures, Singapore is a pioneer in organising events for a…
By Vivian Shao, East West Marketing China’s idol and celebrity industry has transformed with the country’s rapidly growing Internet economy. While idol culture and the…
By OTA Insight China was the first country to be hit by COVID-19, and is now progressively moving toward recovery. Domestic travel has begun and…
By Singapore Tourism Board “With its skilled workforce, world-class facilities and commitment to safety, Singapore can lead the way in organising business events in the…
By Gavin Tollman, Global CEO of Trafalgar, Costsaver and Brendan Vacations Like many of the days that have changed history, 09 November 2020 is a…
By ITB Asia News What are the skills you and your organization will need to survive and thrive in the (hospitality) zombie apocalypse? Deep pockets…
By Cendyn Try these new creative room types to boost revenue Hotel marketing has always been a blend of creativity and data. There’s equal parts…
By bd4travel Why real-time visitor data is key to rebuilding travel Let’s face it, we are seeing substantial changes in consumer travel booking activity. Where…
By HRS The Coronavirus pandemic is moving more and more focus to digital processes – a direction that is completely changing the way people travel.…
By Richard Whiddington, Jing Travel The first thing most people look for when visiting a museum is a special exhibition — or else the nearest…
By Laura Badiu, TrustYou The last few months have been extremely challenging not only for businesses but for people in general. While many of us…
By Knowcross This is a unique discussion with two hoteliers who know, first-hand, what it takes to operate a hotel in a world with COVID-19.…
By World Animal Protection The COVID-19 pandemic is believed to have originated in a ‘wet market’ where wild animals were being sold. But these markets…
By Simon Van Wyk, Head of Agency, Tourism Solved There is an interesting article on the NYTimes that looks at what is going on country by country. It…
By Anita Chan, CEO, Compass Edge More than two years ago, I wrote the article “Major Misconceptions about getting Direct Hotel Bookings from China”. After me…