Resilience and Recovery

March 13, 2024March 13, 2024

Quality over quantity: strategies for mitigating overtourism

Arabian Travel Market, Blog, Destinations, Overtourism, Resilience and Recovery, Responsible Tourism, Travel Industry, Trends

The global tourism sector has bounced back vigorously with the UNWTO anticipating the sector’s full recovery by the end of 2024 as remaining pent-up demand is unleashed. While this is ... Read more

August 14, 2023September 8, 2023

The new generation of tourists from emerging markets

Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry, Trends

For many destinations, 2023 and 2024 will mark a return to business as usual when it comes to tourism. China’s re-opening following Covid has heartened many; prior to Covid it ... Read more

October 14, 2022October 17, 2022

The Return of Business Travel: trends, changes and recovery for 2022 and beyond

Blog, Business Travel, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry, Trends

The summer season has paved the way for the return of leisure air travel. The US Travel Association’s latest travel data for September 2022 showed that after four straight months ... Read more

October 12, 2022October 13, 2022

Airlines move from a torrid summer to an uncertain winter

Aviation, Blog, Economy, Resilience and Recovery

The Covid pandemic has taken the airline business through the worst nightmare imaginable over the last three years and whilst things looked up for the summer, circumstances conspired to make ... Read more

September 26, 2022September 26, 2022

Is the era of low-cost air travel over?

Aviation, Blog, Economy, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry, Trends, WTM Team

Anyone trying to book flights this summer will know that securing seats to popular destinations has been both difficult and expensive. With so many pressures on airline costs, does this ... Read more

September 9, 2022September 5, 2022

From famine to feast

Aviation, Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry, Trends

With agents and operators back in business in a big way, the challenge is to keep pace with demand, says Gemma Greenwood, Director, Content Inc. The travel trade has risen ... Read more

September 7, 2022September 7, 2022

Japan reopens its borders…slowly

Blog, Resilience, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry, WTM Team

By Mark Frary, Co-Founder, Travel Perspective There are a lot of countries around the world where the Covid pandemic has largely been forgotten with life returning to (almost) normal. However, ... Read more

August 25, 2022August 23, 2022

How should the travel sector deal with the aviation industry crisis? A Q & A with aviation recruitment leaders

Arabian Travel Market, Aviation, Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry, Trends

Let’s throw back to a year ago when the prospect of travel returning to pre-pandemic days seemed to be an elusive possibility on the horizon. Plenty of fearless predictions foresaw ... Read more

July 15, 2022July 18, 2022

Industry staff shortages – it’s about more than just pay

Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry

Our industry is fundamentally archaic in its approach to talent management and welfare, says Gemma Greenwood, Director, Content Inc. Now is the summer of our discontent, nowhere more so than ... Read more

April 12, 2022April 11, 2022

Aviation industry: turning crisis to new opportunities

Arabian Travel Market, Aviation, Blog, Resilience, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry

After more than two years there are finally encouraging signs that the coronavirus pandemic may be on the wane. The airline and travel business has taken a beating. Nothing can ... Read more

March 22, 2022March 22, 2022

A new flexi future for hotels

Blog, Hospitality, Resilience and Recovery, Responsible Tourism, Trends

By Gemma Greenwood, Director, Content Inc. The role of hotels has fundamentally changed. It was once cut and dried – they provided a bed for the night – or a ... Read more

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

Why targeting the ‘bleisure’ market has never been easier

Blog, Business Travel, Hospitality, marketing, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry, Trends

By Gemma Greenwood, Director, Content Inc. 2022 is the officially the year of ‘bleisure’. Why? Because never before have the lines between business and leisure travel been so wonderfully blurred. ... Read more

April 28, 2021April 27, 2021

Insights that the travel sector should take from ‘Seaspiracy’

Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Responsible Tourism, Travel Industry

Although as an industry we may be focussed on more current crises like COVID, for which we are coming up with innovative solutions already, we must not forget the pressing ... Read more

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021

What does the future hold for group travel?

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

At the end of 2019, the group travel sector was flourishing. The formula was a winning one – provide travellers with the chance to meet likeminded people while experiencing new ... Read more

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021

The changing landscape of Africa’s source markets

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

Which source markets will be among the first to resume regular long-haul travel to Africa? And how should you be adapting both your offering and marketing message in order to ... Read more

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021

Exclusive-Use Travel – the real deal or hype?

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

The desire to travel within “bubbles” and limiting the risk involved when sharing aircrafts, vehicles and accommodation has given rise to renewed interest in exclusive-use offerings. But in Africa, the ... Read more

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021

The Art of Travel: The Rise of Contemporary African Art and Design

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

Typically, African art is always associated with wooden masks, stone and bronze sculptures and traditional textiles – but there is so much more to discover – and potentially incorporate into ... Read more

April 15, 2021April 16, 2021

The opportunity of domestic tourism

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

From which accommodation categories have been hardest hit, to where South Africans are spending their cash – spoiler alert, look no further than Builder’s Warehouse – we unpack the facts ... Read more

April 15, 2021April 15, 2021

Can Gen Z save the travel industry?

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

Gen Z, also called Generation C, is the world’s youngest generation, living through a time of pandemic and a time when, hopefully, the world hopes to welcome some significant positive ... Read more

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021

Tourism’s recovery plan for 2021

Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry

The Roadmap out of coronavirus, unveiled by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, prompted the rush to book, with consumers understandably wishing to have a holiday to look forward to this summer.

February 12, 2021February 15, 2021

How to Include Casual Travellers in Tourism’s Recovery Process

Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry

Casual travellers are the backbone of the tourism industry, and they shouldn’t be left behind in developing plans for recovery.

February 11, 2021February 9, 2021

Can tourism help us rethink nature’s value?

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

Our relationship with nature is so broken that we need to write laws to protect our ‘peaceful enjoyment’. We are so unable to appreciate the real value of birdsong that ... Read more

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021

Five strategies you need for your travel business in 2021

Blog, Resilience, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry

As we begin the New Year in a UK-wide lockdown, where they’re might be jetting off to next is likely far from consumers’ minds. But as the COVID-19 vaccines begin ... Read more

November 13, 2020November 12, 2020

Making connections at WTM Virtual

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

For the last eight years I have been to every single session of the responsible tourism programme at World Travel Market.

October 29, 2020October 29, 2020

The long run evolution of aviation activity following COVID-19

Aviation, Blog, Resilience and Recovery

Airlines’ business models, technology developments, new products and services, sustainability approaches… discover some of the factors that will shape and transform the global aviation industry after COVID-19.

September 1, 2020September 7, 2020

Which trends should guide tourism’s recovery?

Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Responsible Tourism

As we imagine our new place in the world, how might such trends change the world? How should they influence our planning? Are we trying to build back to levels ... Read more

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020

Join the UK travel industry’s fight to #SaveTravel

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

The #SaveTravel campaign seeks to make the UK government recognise and respond to the unique challenge facing travel companies large and small.

August 20, 2020August 19, 2020

Travel Talk and Insight: Adventure Tourism Post-COVID and Beyond

Adventure, Blog, Resilience and Recovery

To help us navigate the terrain of adventure tourism post-COVID, I sat down with a legit adventurer, CEO and Tour Manager of Outdoor Activities in Romania, Mr. Dan Chitila.

August 4, 2020August 26, 2020

Will 2020 define the future of tourism?

Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Responsible Tourism

Cut emissions in half by 2030. This is what defines the future of tourism. Not what tourism looks like in 2020, but what it needs to look like in ten ... Read more

July 27, 2020August 19, 2020

Will video be vital in getting people to trust in the cleanliness and hygiene provisions for booking a holiday?

Blog, Hospitality, Resilience and Recovery

A growing number of travel and tourism companies are turning to video to get their safety and hygiene messages across.

June 28, 2020August 17, 2020

Seven Points for Tourism Management Organizations to Consider as the Industry Recovers

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

The WTA’s Nine-Point List of Assets & Attributes for Wellness Destinations, along with how each point might apply to any geographic destination as the industry recovers, is as follows…

June 24, 2020November 18, 2020

World Tourism Cities Federation: Case Experience Sharing on Restarting Urban Tourism after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Arabian Travel Market, Blog, Destinations, Resilience and Recovery

The global COVID-19 pandemic has severely hit the healthy and sustainable development of world tourism. How to support the recovery of tourism market after the pandemic is under control has ... Read more

June 20, 2020November 18, 2020

Future Travel Booking Habits

Arabian Travel Market, Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Travel Industry

ForwardKeys, the world’s leading travel analytics company, latest air bookings data shows the road to recovery is plausible for the Middle East to kick-start this year, despite the imminent drop ... Read more

June 19, 2020August 17, 2020

Stringent hotel protocols unveiled as hospitality industry re-opens

Blog, Hospitality, Luxury, Resilience and Recovery

Cleanliness is the new godliness. This is the path that the hospitality sector is headed as major hotels chains and resorts make their re-opening plans known.

June 15, 2020October 13, 2020

Domestic tourism to the rescue

Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Responsible Tourism Spotlight, Travel Industry

As international travel comes to a standstill with closed borders and struggling airlines, experts around the world are looking up to domestic travel as a means to kickstart the recovery ... Read more

June 4, 2020August 14, 2020

I have glimpsed the future of tourism – and it’s not at all bad

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

Tourism and travel employs one in 10 of the world’s working population and is estimated to be worth a staggering US$8.9 trillion – that’s 10.3 per cent of world GDP.

May 26, 2020August 13, 2020

New travel initiative is shining a light on travel companies helping during COVID-19

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

A newly launched initiative is shining a light on those travel companies helping during the COIVD-19 outbreak.

May 18, 2020August 13, 2020

The Cruise Industry Feels the Brunt of the Coronavirus-led Travel Shutdown

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

Travel bans imposed across the globe, hundreds of thousands of flight cancellations, thousands of cancelled cruise voyages and port closures have led to a sharp drop in tourism demand.

May 11, 2020September 30, 2020

How do we redesign tourism for a sustainable future?

Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Responsible Tourism

As we look at ways to achieve a sustainable future for tourism, we should ask what tourism can do to support a sustainable future. How can we redesign our industry ... Read more

April 27, 2020August 13, 2020

How can we ensure tourism’s recovery benefits those that most need it?

Blog, Resilience and Recovery, Responsible Tourism

Recent tourism initiatives and campaigns give me hope that the industry’s recovery can be marked by the same generosity and resilience that has been shown through the early stages of ... Read more

April 9, 2020August 12, 2020

What Can Luxury Travel Brands Do in the Midst of a Pandemic?

Blog, Luxury, marketing, Resilience and Recovery, Responsible Tourism

Luxury during a global pandemic. Is there such a thing? Moreover, is it even proper to think about luxury at this time?

April 6, 2020August 13, 2020

Eight things the hotel industry can do to aid revenue recovery

Blog, Hospitality, Resilience and Recovery

Hotels have been attempting to mitigate lowering the rates and putting new measures in place with an aim to revive the hotel industry and contribute to revenue recovery amid the ... Read more

March 25, 2020August 13, 2020

Finding resilience in travel Industry – despite COVID-19

Blog, Resilience and Recovery

The Global Travel & Tourism Resilience Council has partnered with World Travel Market to provide the travel industry with insights and thought leadership during this time of crisis and uncertainty.