3 Tourism Trends We're Tracking at Skift This Week

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These are the tourism trends we were talking about this week.

Every week we post hundreds of stories across various sectors in travel, connecting the dots across various global trends, and in these weekend posts we highlight the stories that tackle these trends. This one looks at top tourism trends.

For all of our trends roundups, go here.

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Dan Peltier

November 7th, 2015 at 1:00 PM EST

Tags: trends roundup

Photo Credit: Vancouver Convention Centre's public space will host much of PCMA's educational and networking sessions, versus the meeting space. Vancouver Convention Centre

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