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- Black History and Culture Rank Highly in People's Travel Planning Study SaysClausing, Jeri (Travel Weekly, 2020-10-16)A survey conducted for the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor in the southeastern U.S. found that 36% of all travelers ranked Black heritage as important in their choice of destination. The potential leisure travel market in these four states- North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida is estimated at $34 billion.
- International travel's current situation: Forms, forms, tests and more formsClausing, Jeri (Travel Weekly, 2021-05-05)To anyone out there who wants to resume traveling the world, but opposes so-called digital health passports, I challenge you to do a multicountry trip without changing your mind.
- MMGY Global turning its attention to Latinx travelers in its latest surveyClausing, Jeri (Travel Weekly, 2021-05-18)MMGY Global, which last year developed an in-depth report on Black travelers, announced on Monday that it will conduct similar first-of-its-kind research on the needs, concerns, and behaviors of Latinx travelers in the U.S.
- New tool makes it easier for advisors to book Travel Corporation experiencesClausing, Jeri (Travel Weekly, 2021-05-13)Responding to post-pandemic demand for what it calls "risk-free" travel products, the Travel Corporation is making it easier for advisors to tap into and sell the many and often exclusive experiences developed by its global network of destination management companies (DMC).
- The Pandemic's Green ShootsClausing, Jeri; Silk, Robert; Jainchill, Johanna; Jelski, Christina (Travel Weekly, 2021-04-19)The head of the European Travel Commission may have summed it up best when he said recently that the pandemic spawned a revolution that has unified the travel industry to build back better. Among the most notable beneficial side effects of travel’s partial pause may be the momentum it has created to bring together a broad cross-section of companies and groups to advance conversations, and initiatives, around sustainability. With evidence that most Covid-19 infections are spread through the airborne transmission of aerosolized respiratory droplets, many hotels have updated their systems to increase the outdoor-air exchange rate and add HEPA filters or ultraviolet technologies.
- Proud Experiences is Coming to New York in NovemberClausing, Jeri (Travel Weekly, 2021-02-24)Reed Exhibitions announced it will be holding its LGBTQ+ focused travel event Proud Experiences in New York in November. The LGBTQ+ travel sector is valued at an estimated $218 Billion. UNWTO predicted for 2020 there would be 180 million LGBTQ+ tourists and they expect that to grow.
- Road trip will develop Black culture and heritage toursClausing, Jeri (Travel Weekly, 2021-05-18)The National Blacks in Travel and Tourism Collaborative (BTT) and the Cultural Heritage Alliance for Tourism (CHAT), a Black-owned tour operator based in Miami, are launching a national road trip to develop more Black culture- and heritage-focused tours and promote minority travel businesses.
- Travel groups applaud EU vote to reopen to vaccinated touristsClausing, Jeri (Travel Weekly, 2021-05-19)The travel industry Wednesday applauded an EU vote that brings the bloc one step closer to opening its borders to vaccinated travelers. "This move could unlock transatlantic travel, which is critical to the economies of the U.S. as well as the whole of the EU," Virginia Messina, senior vice president of the World Travel & Tourism Council.