If you were planning on attending a hospitality event in 2020, chances are high that it was cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic. While this disruption in show business has been devastating to event planners and convention facilities, the advent of virtual events is quickly proving to be a lucrative alternative for everyone involved.
WTM London - the event where Ideas Arrive - and Travel Forward - the travel and hospitality technology event co-located with WTM London - will be entirely virtual in November.
Travellers around the world are facing huge change and new conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 15 September 2020 from 2 to 4 p.m. CET the http://www.itb.com/virtualconvention will take a close look at changing tourist flows, customer preferences and potential growth markets.
Organiser of ITB Asia 2020 Virtual today revealed Reinventing Travel in the New Normal as the theme for this year's virtual event. The three-day, 120-session themed agenda has been specially curated to help travel industry professionals navigate through the current challenges and prepare for the industry's recovery.
"The best way to describe whats around the corner for bed banks is: Evolve or became a slave of distribution. Slave scenario: Bed banks have a very strategic value for OTA's as we have seen with Expedia becoming a middle man between brands and bed banks / wholesale system."
Celebrated on 27 September with the theme of "Tourism and Rural Development", this year's international day of observation comes at a critical moment, as countries around the world look to tourism to drive recovery, including in rural communities where the sector is a leading employer and economic pillar.
The Hotel Plus 2020, hosted by Shanghai Sinoexpo Informa Markets, concluded with great success at National Exhibition and Convention Centre (NECC) in Shanghai, China from 12th - 14th August. Over the 3-day period, the show was packed with more than 110,000 professional visitors to develop business networking with industry peers from the community of hotel, design, retailing, cleaning and real estate.
Future Leaders in Travel Retreat, powered by TravelAge West, took place Aug 31 - Sept 2, 2020, with advisor and supplier participants logging into the event from their own homes. Future Leaders is dedicated to connecting the next generation of travel buyers and sellers in order to move the industry forward.
Three of Europe's leading and most respected Revenue Management conferences will come together in early 2021 to deliver an exclusive one-day conference designed to support and unify the revenue management community.
ITB India organiser has announced the adoption of a hybrid model for ITB India 2021. The coming tradeshow will be a combination of a live event (physical exhibition) held on 7- 9 April 2021, in Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, India; and a virtual event happening five days later, on 15 - 16 April 2021.
"We continue to have a culture and structure problem that blocks a "green recovery". I frequently hear students who work for chains say they read about sustainability initiatives on the corporate website (not a job requirement; it's a class assignment), but then do not see evidence of those commitments at their property."
Last week on Aug. 25-26, Cvent, a market-leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, brought together tens of thousands of industry professionals online for its annual customer conference, Cvent CONNECT US.
