Articles tagged “new york state”

It’s all about priorities. Companies are now reviving their travel programs with a new set of top-down corporate focuses, regardless of where employees choose to work from.

Move over Macau and Singapore. Las Vegas Sands is betting on Long Island, unlike other city-centric developers spending millions to win a casino license in New York. All these new proposals are focusing on corporate meeting spaces and tourism boosts to the economy to turn the odds in their favor.

OTG Management has been hitting Albany hard over the past five years. The company wants a piece of the new terminal set for LaGuardia, and the ability to ferry the gambling cash cow into New York airports.

Although Manhattan continues to market successfully to meeting planners by promoting the city's iconic selling points, the most exciting spirit of innovation to create memorable events is in Brooklyn.

Dixon's presentation focused on three ways NYC & Company is evolving its marketing strategy by using shared voices (social media), borrowed voices (celebrity partnerships), and technology to provide more authentic travel experiences (new LinkNYC street Wi-Fi).

The most visited states such as Florida, California, and New York still have the largest budgets but some of the states seeing their budgets receive the highest percent increases aren't iconic American destinations.

Tour startups face many of the same challenges as their predecessors, but their sexy and unorthodox approach to art and sightseeing gives them the added boost of consumer-fueled marketing.

Another year reveals that arrivals and visitor growth in Asia continues to be the real story of international travel.

City residents are crossing their fingers that they won't have to battle with tourists for these seats out of town.

New York state residents are less panicky about Ebola at their doorsteps than rest of the country. Though that may change if more cases and more bungling by authorities comes to light.