Greg Oates

Meeting planners are clearly expressing that they prefer face-to-face engagement with convention bureaus to source destination information.

Conrad's "Smart Luxury" positioning is an attempt to expand on the "personal" and "experiential" luxury memes, which have become overused cliches, with more indepth local travel options for successful, well-traveled professionals.

We've all known for some time this day was coming. Virtual reality is eventually going to completely disrupt how people consume travel marketing and sales, and this is the birth of that shift at scale.

Due to accelerating globalization, more cities than ever are competing to attract foreign corporate investment and talent. Therefore, city leaders are placing a higher value on convention centers to help develop their destinations' business brand.

Based on Park Hyatt's consumer research, there's growing demand for more sophisticated programming in luxury hospitality. This collaboration with The New York Times could spark similar initiatives across the industry.

By emphasizing how San Francisco is integrating the highest levels of sustainability, technology, inclusiveness, charity and local cuisine into Super Bowl 50, the city is really emphasizing its forward-thinking value proposition as a tourism destination.

These four destinations represent the highest concentration of international association headquarters. So the partnership has the opportunity to evolve into a true platform for sharing knowledge on global association meeting trends with the rest of the industry, and not just sales leads among themselves.

To attract the attention and loyalty of Millennials today, hotels and booking sites need to communicate relevant hotel and destination content instantaneously and conveniently on mobile.

With NBCSports' investment in broadcast rights for the Premier League, and Fox Sports' rights investment for the German Bundesliga, the growth of football fandom in the U.S. will only grow and create additional opportunities for tourism.

For corporate travelers, there needs to be more transparency and better established roles of responsibility for open bookings. On the leisure side, travel agencies need to be easier to find based on their areas of expertise.