Economic Uncertainty Eclipses COVID-19 Concerns in Business Travel Industry
Where does the recovery of business travel stand?
Where does the recovery of business travel stand?
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, planners’ attention turned to understanding the multitude of digital meeting platform options that emerged overnight.
The meetings and events industry continues to signal that it’s moving full steam ahead toward full recovery.
While in-person events are making a comeback, live attendance is up for both virtual events and webinars, with an increase in attendee engagement.
In an effort to ignite the hospitality workforce, attract more hotel employees and dampen the impact of the workforce shortage across services, the American Hotel & Lodging Foundation is partnering with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps.
If you’re not talking about sustainability, climate or the environment, more than mere buzzwords, you’re already late in the meetings industry.
Unfortunately, the travel industry isn’t escaping the same issues that are plaguing many industries across the globe right now— inflation, energy prices, supply chain challenges, labor shortages and more.
To help coordinate disparate efforts, this summer, the U.S. Travel Association launched a new Sustainable Travel Coalition to help align the travel, transportation and technology sectors in developing and advancing strategies to enable a more sustainable future for the broader U.S. travel industry.
Daniel Schacter, author of “The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers,” believes our memory system, for all its foibles, is highly adaptive.
Digital and hybrid events can collect a vast sea of data. If not careful, planners can quickly find themselves awash in information without a measurable way to use it.