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In this Skift Aviation Forum video we hear from Mike Appleton, president, Hotel Connections and Travelliance, about how the company is helping to simplify the logistics of aviation flight crew scheduling and traveling.

A new era of travel is dawning. After mass tourism all but ended during Covid-19, and with the road to recovery ahead, what comes next? Moving into 2021, tourism needs to be about more than just the visitor; it needs to be a harmonious ecosystem that benefits locals and visitors alike.

Travel brands looking to rebuild their payments ecosystem in the wake of Covid-19 need to embrace change, partner for success, and ring-fence their finance, marketing, and customer experience teams.

In this report, Skift and The Venetian Resort Las Vegas reveal how industry stakeholders are dealing with the Covid-19 crisis. They share learnings, best practices, and innovations that can enlighten businesses, meeting planners, and venues alike.

In this report, Skift and The Venetian Resort Las Vegas reveal how industry stakeholders are dealing with the Covid-19 crisis. They share learnings, best practices, and innovations that can enlighten businesses, meeting planners, and venues alike.

This year, Visa committed to digitally enabling 50 million small businesses around the globe in an effort to get local communities back to business in the wake of the pandemic. Here, we profile three businesses that have innovated to survive and thrive, no matter the challenge.

The rush to enable remote working in response to the pandemic has exposed some travel companies to cyber attacks and phishing campaigns. Looking toward a post-recovery future, business teams will need secure and frictionless connectivity as they begin to travel again.

The pandemic has accelerated the evolution of contactless payments from being about cost savings to addressing the overall guest experience. Continuing down the path from contactless to contact-free is the best course of action for customer-focused enterprise hotel and restaurant companies.

Jean-Francois Lalonde, an associate professor at Université Laval in Québec City, studies computer vision and artificial intelligence. He’s also playing a leading role in attracting and hosting events within Canada’s technology sector.

Quick adaptation and innovation have been essential to Houston’s response to Covid-19, through new events, initiatives and technology. With Houston First Corporation on the comms, the problem of Covid-19 went from crippling to simply a new way of being.