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Among many things, both infamous and otherwise, 2020 will be remembered as the year the travel sector pivoted to working remotely. Moving into 2021, companies will need to optimize the remote working experience for their teams.

Airlines can unlock the opportunity for incremental revenue and the experiences their travelers expect with new retailing technology that can help power personalized offer creation and distribution.

The lines between business and leisure travel continue to blur at an accelerated pace due to the Covid-19 pandemic and a realignment of consumer travel priorities. In the luxury hotel space, servicing the work-from-hotel trend can be a winning strategy for building and retaining loyalty.

Enhancing the traveler journey with the right combination of contactless digital experiences, socially distanced service touchpoints, and personalized information and offers can help return us to a time when the travel journey is just as enjoyable as the destination.

Business travel is at a key crossroads. What will the sector look like in 2021? This new report, which analyzes the results of a survey of several hundred business travelers and travel managers around the world, offers predictions and forecasts for how business travel will evolve in the years ahead.

Though the travel industry has been in hibernation for most of 2020, the year may yet close out on a promising note. For TRIBE Hotels, a forward-thinking approach from their 2017 launch to now, amid a rapid global expansion, is paying off despite the pandemic, proving an eye on the horizon can help operators through even the toughest of times.

This new report includes the results of a survey distributed to several hundred business travelers and travel managers around the world in mid-2020, is synthesized with additional interviews from business travel industry leaders and a roundup of the latest sector news to provide an assessment of how business travel will evolve in the years ahead.

Government support for hybrid events as well as actionable roadmaps and safety measures has seen Singapore blaze new trails for the Meetings, Incentives, Conventions, Exhibitions industry in the new normal.

DerbySoft released a Destination Ads Guide through the Marketing Services side of the travel tech company. This guide is designed to help travel industry operators boost visibility and harness fresh market demands in the recovery phase of the pandemic.

In this Skift Aviation Forum video we hear from David Harvey, vice president, Southwest Business, about the airline’s strategy to better serve its business travel customers and partners.