Itinerary
Trends Report 2025: Help — and Bleisure Time — Wanted
Hotel staffing shortages and bleisure trips will impact meeting professionals’ planning efforts — and their attendees’ experiences — in 2025. Part of Convene’s Annual Events Industry Forecast.
Trends Report 2025: Meeting and Event ‘Destination Dupes’
A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene’s Annual Events Industry Forecast.
When Your Supply Chain Is Human
SA Expeditions, a travel company with a social-responsibility focus, has a different take on what it means to be sustainable.
5 Tips for Selling Your Event’s Host Destination
As in-person events return, it’s more important than ever to market the host destination to help convince prospects to travel.
More Contactless Technology in Hospitality — But More Social Interaction
Three hospitality executives share short- and long-term views of what is happening next for hotels.
Ixnay on the ‘Surprise and Delight’ Elements of Incentive Programs and Other Findings
The Incentive Research Foundation recently published a white paper summarizing facilitated conversations among incentive travel professionals who met in April in The Palm Beaches. Here’s a recap.
What Are the Biggest Roadblocks to Post-Pandemic Business Travel?
Unpredictable airfares, fluctuating entry restrictions, and rental car shortages are just a few of the challenges facing travelers right now, according to travel writer Peter Greenberg, who spoke at Destination International’s recent CEO Summit.
Work From Anywhere but Meet in One Place
The digital nomad movement has gained ground during the pandemic, for sure. But it has pre-COVID roots and its pioneers are planning an in-person gathering to help it flourish — and to get destinations’ support.
Travelers Get Another 19 Months to Obtain REAL IDs
The deadline to get your REAL ID-compliant licenses or other forms of ID, which U.S. travelers must have to fly domestically, has been extended again to May 3, 2023.
Good News for Frequent Flyers as Airlines Extend Status Perks
Many carriers are making sure frequent travelers don’t lose elite status while staying on the ground during the COVID-19 crisis.
Surprising Places Where Hotels Will Pop Up in 2020
Travelers will call some unlikely places home for the night next year. Here’s a look at three of the most unconventional.
Cleared for Takeoff? Not If Your License Isn’t a REAL ID
A new study shows that a year before the 2020 REAL ID deadline, millions of Americans still are not aware they could be grounded without it.