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Expedia Group launches COVID-19 advisor tool to track global travel restrictions and to help restore confidence in travel

MICE Industry

Global Meetings Industry Day commences, highlights value of in-person business meetings and events

Associations

TFWA launches fourth edition of TFWA Handbook – the comprehensive guide to the global duty free and travel retail industry

Statistics & Trends

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Statistics & Trends

Could BNPL travel help boost a weary tourism sector this summer?

Event Venues

The economic impact of Messukeskus Helsinki melted by 80 per cent

Statistics & Trends

Love Home Swap reveals strong increase in activity for port-lockdown travel planning

Aviation

Rome Fiumicino and Ciampino airports the first in Europe to achieve Airport Carbon Accreditation Level 4+

MICE Industry

Trade show organisers and associations join forces to create safe, successful platforms for economic recovery and reconnection

Technology

Anvil Group and SAP Concur join forces to deliver world-class traveller tracking and assistance

Cruises

Celestyal Cruises quickly moves to expand deployment of fleet this Summer with new “Legendary Archipelago” itinerary

Aviation

Boeing’s revenue has dropped by nearly 50% since 2018 – $58.16B in 2020

Organizations

Jamaica records major increase in arrivals over Easter weekend

Tour Operators

G Adventures leads the way with 100th trip globally since September

Hotels & Lodging

Introducing eight additions to Design Hotels

In Brief

Peachtree Hotel Group promotes Michael Ritz to Vice President of Investments

Aviation

ASL Aviation Holdings confirms new financial facility

Aviation

JetBlue implements Sabre Revenue Optimizer solution to gain real-time visibility into market activity

Tour Operators

Dream Vacations ranked fastest-growing travel agency franchise by Entrepreneur magazine

Statistics & Trends

WTTC research reveals Travel & Tourism sector’s contribution to Greek GDP dropped by 23bn. euros in 2020

Organizations

Seychelles rebuilds tourism with Travizory’s world-beating integrated border technology

Phil Butler

Editor

Member Since / 21 Apr 2016 18:31 16004

Phil is a prolific technology, travel, and news journalist and editor. An engineer by trade, he is a partner in one of Europe’s leading PR and digital marketing firms, Pamil Visions PR.

He’s also a Huffington Post contributor on many topics, a travel and tech writer for The Epoch Times in print and online, and for several magazines including Luxurious.

Phil also contributes regularly to TravelDailyNews, The official Visit Greece Blog, and is an analyst for Russia Today and other media.

His firm has done all the content for Time Magazine’s top travel site Stay.com, as well as other online travel portals such as Vinivi out of France. He’s also a very influential evangelist of social media and new digital business, with a network of some of the most notable business people therein.