Greg Oates
How Motels, Zepplins and Sky Girls Impacted Business Travel Over the Last 100 Years
This American Express GBT microsite makes you wonder how we'll be traveling for work in 2115.
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The New Set of Best Practices for Making Smarter Tourism Boards
The DMO community hungers for new business models and strategies. Sharing best practices is a way to prod forward-looking tourism bureaus into engaging in more experimentation.
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Tourism Vancouver’s Ongoing Effort to Use Video to Convince Meeting Planners
The level of thought leadership and production values in these videos creates an impressive package that positions Vancouver as a convention city of brains and beauty.
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Why the Meetings Industry Doesn’t Understand Millennial or Modern Needs
There's a huge gap today in the meetings industry between ideation and implementation when it comes to next generation meeting design and event technology.
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How One Convention Industry Association is Developing the Future of Conference Design
The move toward open-learning meeting space, where attendees can roam among casual “campfire” sessions, is helping Millennials personalize their educational journey in a more spontaneous and organic process.
The Rise of the Tourism Business Improvement District
Expect this new funding model for tourism promotion to continue to expand, especially as more travel and hotel executives understand the value for their specific companies.
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What 3 of the World’s Smartest Hoteliers Have to Say About the Future of Hotels
By investing in Austin's super hip Bunkhouse hospitality group, The Standard Hotels can now bring its global gateway grooviness to trendy second tier cities in North America.
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The Video Tech That Connects Travelers Virtually With Destinations in Real Time
Georama is unique because meeting attendees can now interact with any other group moving around in a non-static environment, via both HD video feed and social media chat in real time.
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Skift Global Forum 2015: Learning Is the New Luxury In the Experience Economy
21c Museum Hotels answers mainstream demand for cultural, local and educational travel by adding to the quality of artistic discourse in mainstream America.
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