Koddi + Skift
Global events can cause huge spikes in hotel bookings. To make the most of the next World Cup or Coachella, travel advertisers must cultivate their attention to detail and learn to plan for predictable trends.
3 weeks ago
Andrew Sheivachman, Skift
Corporate confidence is high, so more meetings are taking place offsite. This is putting pressure on planners to source and plan events more efficiently, so many are turning to mobile tools to help.
4 months ago
Dan Peltier, Skift
Tourism boards are usually behind the scenes of events, but Las Vegas and Nashville's organizations are often front and center in the form of security personnel hired by tourism officials through local police departments. Even if travelers don't realize this, parts of both cities' tourism budgets are very much on the front lines.
4 months ago
Associated Press
Hotel chains did well in the Minneapolis area over the last Super Bowl, not only because overall spending surpassed projections but because only 13 percent of visitors used a peer-to-peer platform like Airbnb.
6 months ago
Naureen S Malik, Bloomberg
None of these 26.2-milers is run-of-the-mill, as travel companies and tourism boards see the potential of marketing adventure runs to amateur athletes seeking experience-based travel. Any takers for a running safari in Kenya?
7 months ago
Rebecca Greenfield, Bloomberg
So, you wanted more meaningful experiences? Congratulations. Traveling to the wedding is now just part of your expensive obligation, which includes out-of-town showers and bachelor parties, which also eat up your two measly weeks of vacation. Financially, you may have to turn a party for someone else's love into your only summer vacation.
8 months ago
Allan Leibowitz, Skift
Technology can empower meeting planners, but it can also lead to daunting integration problems with other aspects of corporate travel. Riding the fine line between solving problems and creating new ones remains an issue that won't be solved soon.
8 months ago
Laura Powell, Skift
Nowadays, luxury travel is all about discovering new frontiers. It's not just about expanding physical and geographic boundaries. The travel cognoscenti are "brain dating" around the world in order to stretch their minds.
9 months ago
Andrew Sheivachman, Skift
Convergence is trending among travel and event departments at big companies. Fueled by technology, it will only become more important to both sectors in the future if old-school thinking doesn't get in the way.
11 months ago
Jaimie Seaton, Skift
Hailed as a panacea to streamline the bidding process that would make venues and meeting planners more productive, electronic requests for proposals still have a long way to go.
11 months ago
Steve Karnowski, Associated Press
Expo is a far cry from its glory days as the World's Fair, though it's still a respectable boon for tourism. The International Olympic Committee better watch out, or else the Olympic Games may face a similar fate within 20 years' time.
12 months ago
Dan Peltier, Skift
For a small town, Hopkinsville, Kentucky has some big-time lessons on how to plan and host a mass tourism event that will only happen once. The town is still figuring out how to use the positive PR to its advantage and how it can convince some of the eclipse chasers to come back.
1 year ago