atm-blog

November 4, 2022November 3, 2022

Responsible Tourism at WTM London

As Juliette Losardo, WTM London’s exhibition director, said back in September: “Building a robust and responsible future for travel and tourism is a priority, and World Travel Market London aims ... 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 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

September 2, 2022August 30, 2022

6 Ways to Use Virtual Tourism in Your Marketing Strategy

Blog, marketing, Technology, Travel Industry, Travel Technology, Trends

By Tom Mcloughlin, Founder, SEO Travel Virtual reality is a topic generating a lot of hype at the moment, with the majority of industries considering the ways that this technology ... 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

August 19, 2022August 22, 2022

Scotland aims to be Europe’s leading travel tech hub

Arabian Travel Market, Blog, Technology, Travel Industry, Trends, WTM London

By Steve Keenan, Co-Founder, Travel Perspective Scotland is making a bold bid to become Europe’s leading travel technology laboratory and boost the country’s tourism industry. Travel Tech for Scotland (TTfS) ... Read more

August 3, 2022August 15, 2022

Why more of us are travelling solo

Adventure, Arabian Travel Market, Blog, Trends, World Travel Market London

By Steve Keenan, Co-Founder, Travel Perspective There are more people travelling solo than ever before, with the pandemic accelerating a thirst for adventure after lockdown. Google searches for solo travel ... Read more

May 5, 2022May 6, 2022

Air Arabia and Etihad Moving Ahead In Partnership

Aviation, Blog, Business Travel

At this year’s live on stage aviation session at ATM we’ll explore the business strategies of two of the Gulf’s leading airlines. The airlines in question are Air Arabia and ... 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 29, 2022March 29, 2022

Destinations must look to our oceans for regenerative tourism opportunities

Adventure, Blog, Destinations, Responsible Tourism

By Nick Cambden, Co-Founder, DeepBlueSee Numerous trends reports have identified sustainable tourism as a top trend for 2022. But sustainability – which aims to counterbalance social and environmental impacts associated ... Read more

March 1, 2022March 1, 2022

Is off-peak season the new peak season to travel?

Blog, Travel Industry, Trends, Uncategorised

The past couple of years certainly has not been short of drastic changes: major lows, eventual, and in some cases, short-lived highs. But one thing remains true: life goes on. ... 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

July 13, 2021July 20, 2021

Responsibility matters for businesses communities and destinations

Blog, Responsible Tourism

The Responsible Tourism movement is broad, it encompasses all those who are actively making tourism more sustainable. The taking of responsibility is demonstrated by action. It is about making better ... Read more

July 6, 2021

What can I do to travel sustainably?

Blog, Responsible Tourism

Research shows that travellers and holidaymakers want to travel sustainably and look for businesses and destinations that take responsibility for providing them with those opportunities. 48% say they find it ... Read more

June 22, 2021

Why Sustainable Tourism Failed

Blog, Responsible Tourism

This is a guest post written by John Swarbrooke. Way back in 1998, John published the seminal text on Sustainable Tourism Management, and it is still in print. It has, for ... Read more

May 17, 2021May 17, 2021

Why we need a renaissance of travel and tourism worldwide

Arabian Travel Market, Blog, Travel Industry

Everybody is looking forward to leaving the pandemic behind. We all wish for the devastating consequences of the virus to become ancient history so we can all start living the ... Read more

May 5, 2021May 4, 2021

Airline Leadership in Challenging Times: Emirates and IATA

Aviation, Blog

Two of the most experienced and respected leaders of the airline industry will be amongst our guests for this year’s ATM Virtual event.

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021

The fundamental role of buyers in the recovery of the travel industry

Blog, Events, Travel Industry

Buyers and senior travel industry decision makers with direct purchasing responsibility, have always been an integral element of Arabian Travel Market. They have always been a fundamental part of the ... Read more

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021

How has Gulf aviation been impacted by the pandemic?

Aviation, Blog

As the COVID-19 crisis enters a second year airlines are still struggling to return to even a modest amount of flying activity. The Gulf has been affected as much ... Read more

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021

The expansion of travel and tourism in the Middle East

Blog, Destinations, Travel Industry

The Middle East represents the present and the future of global travel and tourism thanks to its approach in developing the industry throughout the years and during the COVID-19 era.

March 29, 2021March 26, 2021

Eight ways the pandemic has re-shaped the Middle East hospitality landscape

Blog, Hospitality

In the Middle East, and in particular, the Gulf, pandemic-led consumer behaviours have forced the hospitality industry to re-imagine hotel concepts and offerings to meet revised guest expectations.

July 1, 2020November 18, 2020

ATM Virtual draws almost 12,000 online attendees

Arabian Travel Market, ATM Virtual, Press Releases

Debut Arabian Travel Market Virtual event registers 11,977 attendees Participants represented 140 countries Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 22 June 2020: Travel trade professionals from across the world gathered ... Read more

June 26, 2020November 18, 2020

Saudi Arabia will be ready to welcome the world

Arabian Travel Market, Destinations, Press Releases

Tourism may be on hold, but Saudi Arabia is working hard to ensure we are ready to receive visitors again when international travel resumes.

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 22, 2020November 18, 2020

Ultra high net worth individual travel post-COVID-19

Arabian Travel Market, Blog, Luxury, Travel Industry

While commercial aviation giants are facing unprecedented times as a result of the COVID-19, the private aviation industry is anticipating a boom.

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 18, 2020November 18, 2020

Italy, the closest to heaven experience: Travel safely to the core of Italian authenticity

Arabian Travel Market, Blog, Destinations, Travel Industry

The unique experience in the Italian lifestyle drives the strategies of the Italian Tourist Board for recovery.

June 17, 2020October 13, 2020

Collaborative Tourism Practices to Advance Tourism Marketing

ATM Virtual

June 16, 2020November 18, 2020

Welcome to ATM 2020 – Danielle Curtis

Arabian Travel Market, ATM Virtual

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 11, 2020June 22, 2021

Responsible Tourism and COVID Impacts

ATM Virtual

June 11, 2020October 13, 2020

China Performance Update

ATM Virtual

June 11, 2020October 13, 2020

Middle East Domestic Travel Prospects

ATM Virtual

As life after the pandemic slowly returns to its new normal, the return of domestic and regional travel may be the first sign of recovery, especially if international travel remains ... Read more

June 3, 2020November 18, 2020

Make Your Connection: Influencers as a Key Part of the Marketing Mix in the COVID-19 The Road to Recovery

Arabian Travel Market, ATM Virtual, Blog, marketing

{ “channelId” : 18179, “language”: “en-US”, “commId” : 418788, “displayMode” : “standalone”, “height” : “auto” }https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/player-embed/player-embed.js Speakers Eddie Taylor is currently Head of Content at ITP Create, an experiential and ... Read more

June 3, 2020November 18, 2020

What are the Implications of Covid-19 for Responsible Hospitality?

Arabian Travel Market, ATM Virtual

{ “channelId” : 18179, “language”: “en-US”, “commId” : 418834, “displayMode” : “standalone”, “height” : “auto” }https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/player-embed/player-embed.js Speakers Harold is WTM’s Responsible Tourism Advisor, he puts together the flagship Responsible Tourism ... Read more

June 3, 2020October 13, 2020

Restructuring to Attract Sustainable Investment and Customers in the New World Order

ATM Virtual

Speakers Rajan Datar is a hugely respected and versatile broadcaster and journalist who cut his teeth feature-writing for national publications including the Guardian and the Times and then presented and ... Read more

June 3, 2020October 13, 2020

What are you doing to energize your operational performance?

ATM Virtual

Speakers Paul leads the EMEA Travel and Transportation Commercial Teams at Cirium with teams based in the UAE and the UK. Prior to joining Cirium, Paul led Data, Insight and ... Read more

June 3, 2020October 13, 2020

A Conversation with Joszef Varadi

ATM Virtual

Speakers John Strickland has 37 years of experience in the air transport industry, embracing all the major airline business models and holding senior positions with airlines including British Airways and ... Read more

June 3, 2020October 13, 2020

Will Hygiene Surpass Price, Facilities and Services, in the ‘New Normal’ Hotel Experience?

ATM Virtual

Speakers Claudia de Brito is the editor of Hotelier Middle East. Raised in the UAE and educated in London, de Brito is a multi-faceted editor who brings a global perspective ... Read more

June 2, 2020October 13, 2020

An Interview with Sir Tim Clark, President of Emirates Airlines

ATM Virtual

Speakers Director, John Strickland, is a graduate of the University of York and has held senior positions including network planning and revenue management with a number of airlines including British ... Read more

June 2, 2020October 13, 2020

Effects that Covid-19 could have on food-driven travel

ATM Virtual

Speakers Simon Ritchie is the editor of F&B trade title Caterer Middle East. A seasoned business and lifestyle journalist, Ritchie has worked across a number of publications and industries both ... Read more

June 2, 2020October 13, 2020

How cross-sector collaboration is key to igniting economic growth in the tourism

Arabian Travel Market, ATM Virtual

Speakers Mia believes entrepreneurship is at the heart of economic growth and collaboration between corporates and startups create a cultural of innovation that is critical for building a sustainable future. ... Read more

June 2, 2020October 13, 2020

Catapulting Resilience through Technology and Analytics

ATM Virtual

Speakers Lee has been reporting on the travel industry for the last 14 years, most recently as editor of Travolution, the technology and digital travel publication brand and sister title ... Read more

June 2, 2020October 13, 2020

Bouncing Back: Tourism Strategies for the Future

ATM Virtual

Speakers Gemma has 20 years’ experience as a journalist, editor and corporate and crisis communications consultant. She has worked for a range of major newspaper titles and business publications during ... Read more

June 2, 2020October 13, 2020

The Virtual ATM China Tourism Forum

ATM Virtual

Speakers World Travel Online (WTO) was the 1st and still the leading outbound travel portal on the China Wide Web providing destination information in Chinese to the entire outbound travel ... Read more

June 1, 2020October 13, 2020

Impact of COVID-19 on Travel & Tourism in the Middle East

ATM Virtual

Speakers In her role as a Senior Analyst at Euromonitor International, Rabia looks after the research across a multitude of industries in the Services and Payments sector in the Middle ... Read more

June 1, 2020October 13, 2020

The hotel landscape in a post-Covid-19 world

ATM Virtual

June 1, 2020October 13, 2020

Communicating and Building Confidence Now

ATM Virtual

Speakers Ian Taylor is executive editor of Travel Weekly Group in the UK, reporting online and in print for Travel Weekly and the daily Travel Weekly Business:am. He is responsible ... Read more

June 1, 2020October 13, 2020

Challenges faced today by the travel providers and agencies

ATM Virtual

Speakers

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

February 24, 2020February 24, 2020

What if our trains had a bit more jazz? Disco? Or foot baths?

Responsible Tourism

Early this July, the Jazz Night Express will take a trainload of passengers from Rotterdam to Berlin. Along the way passengers will be able to enjoy live jazz acts, spoken ... Read more

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020

The most important Arabian Travel Market yet?

Arabian Travel Market

Why hoteliers and travel providers must think beyond Expo 2020 We’re now less than three months away from Arabian Travel Market 2020 and the show couldn’t come at a better ... Read more

February 4, 2020

Carbon Offsetting: Too good to be true?

Responsible Tourism

56 businesses and individuals working in tourism have joined Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency accepting that this “requires immediate and radical action by our governments, our industry and our business.” ... Read more

January 30, 2020

How the hospitality sector could get vegetarian food right (by a meat eater)

Responsible Tourism

My vegetarian wife says that when I met her 15 years ago I pretended to be a vegetarian to impress her. She says I was pretending, because within months of ... Read more

January 21, 2020

Walking & Talking in India

Responsible Tourism

I am writing this in Binsar, in the foothills of the Himalaya in Uttarakhand. I was Delhi for the presentation of the India Responsible Tourism Awards, I took the train ... Read more

January 7, 2020

The Cost of Greenhouse Gases

Responsible Tourism

There is little doubt that, assuming war does not break out, that climate change will be the dominant story of 2020. COP 25 was, to say the least, disappointing. The ... Read more

December 23, 2019December 23, 2019

How the Quest for Epic Adventures is Changing Luxury Travel

Luxury

Last November 4-6th marked the 40th World Travel Market annual tradeshow at the ExCel London. Attended by over 50,000 representatives from the tourism and travel industry all over the world, ... Read more

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019

What were the key headlines for tourism’s sustainability in 2019? Here’s 55 of them…

Responsible Tourism

I reckon the sustainability of tourism has been in the headlines more in 2019 than ever before. So for my final blog of the year, I have gathered 55 of ... Read more

December 16, 2019July 10, 2020

2019: A Turbulent Year in Travel

Previous Podcast

Listen now on iTunes Listen now on Spotify Travel has seen its fair share of ups and downs this year, from the collapse of big travel businesses such as ... Read more

December 16, 2019July 10, 2020

WTM Insights LIVE: Courting Hollywood

Previous Podcast

Listen now on iTunes Listen now on Spotify This episode was recorded LIVE at the World Travel Market, London- the biggest travel trade show in the world. We had ... Read more

December 11, 2019December 11, 2019

Kerala has been hit by flooding, a resilience challenge well beyond the capacity of tourism to address

Responsible Tourism

At best, the tourism sector can address its own resilience. We often hear talk about the resilience of a destination, its ability to bounce back from adverse circumstances. In the ... Read more

December 4, 2019December 4, 2019

Tourism, Climate Change (and why I feel like a fraud)

Responsible Tourism

Most people I know suffer from imposter syndrome. Most of us believe that any second now, we’ll be found out as frauds, hypocrites, or simply as completely out of our ... Read more

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019

US$4.5 billion Mid-East destination wedding tourism, a key trend defining region’s hospitality industry, says new ATM report

Arabian Travel Market, Press Releases

5% of destination weddings take place in the Middle East with the UAE the most favoured location EWAA tourism as well as solo and female-led travel also set to define ... Read more

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019

Resilience requires that travel and tourism prepare for the worst

Responsible Tourism

We are failing to reduce and mitigate – resilience requires that we adapt. We have not even begun to slow the rate of growth in greenhouse gas emissions Ahead of ... Read more

November 25, 2019

What should Extinction Tourism look like?

Responsible Tourism

“The Bramble Cay melomys was a little brown rat,” said the director for the Wilderness Society, Tim Beshara. “But it was our little brown rat and it was our responsibility ... Read more

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019

Indian visitors to GCC to increase 81% by 2024, says new ATM report

Arabian Travel Market, Press Releases

GCC to welcome 9.8 million Indian visitors by 2024 with CAGR growth of 10% UAE to experience highest proportionate increase in arrivals from India The number of Indian tourists travelling ... Read more

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019

Russian tourism to GCC worth $1.22 billion by 2023, says ATM report

Arabian Travel Market, Press Releases

UAE will witness highest growth with total Russian tourism spend estimated to reach US$1.153 billion by 2023, followed by Saudi Arabia and Oman New buyer forums and networking events at ... Read more

November 12, 2019

Future Proofing Travel and Tourism

Responsible Tourism

At World Travel Market, London this year the focus on World Responsible Tourism Day was on the challenge of decarbonising our industry. Carbon emissions from our fossil-fuelled economies are causing ... Read more

October 25, 2019October 30, 2019

The Hard – Hitting, How Many Elephants Exhibition will be Showcased in the Responsible Tourism Cafe at WTM London

Responsible Tourism

Do you love adventure? Does African wildlife inspire and amaze you? Do you want your children’s children to be able to see wild elephants? Yes? You sound a lot like ... Read more

October 23, 2019October 23, 2019

Should Tourism Declare a Climate Emergency?

Responsible Tourism

On 5 December 2016, the Australian city of Darebin, a municipality in the suburbs of northern Melbourne, was the first place in the world to declare a climate emergency. Since ... Read more

October 15, 2019

WTM London Responsible Tourism Programme 2019

Responsible Tourism

This year at WTM London, we are addressing some of the major sustainability challenges and asking who can do what about them. We need businesses and destination governments to step ... Read more

October 7, 2019November 18, 2020

Turn Flightshame to your advantage – Promote train travel

Responsible Tourism, Responsible Tourism, Social Media

A friend of mine called last week for holiday advice. It’s not the first time someone has done this, but it is the first time that a friend has done ... Read more

October 1, 2019

Emerging Leaders in Responsible Tourism

Responsible Tourism

We announced the finalists in the 2019 World Responsible Tourism Awards two weeks ago, they will be presented with Gold or Silver Awards at WTM London on November 6th, and one of ... Read more

September 24, 2019September 25, 2019

Airlines: survival of the fittest

Arabian Travel Market, Aviation, Blog

There is the usual share of volatility making it rough going for airlines as this year’s WTM approaches. When exactly a particular challenge will rear its head isn’t predictable, but ... Read more

August 28, 2019November 18, 2020

Shambala Festival: What tourism should do next

Responsible Tourism, Responsible Tourism, Social Media

To imagine what tourism should do next in my ongoing quest for ‘tourism’s new stories’, I found that the Shambala Festival is one of the best examples around

August 5, 2019October 8, 2019

Tourism needs new stories

Carbon & Water, Social Economy

Across Europe, the beginning of August signifies the beginning of the long summer holiday. Children are all off school for several weeks. Parliaments shut for a while. Stuck for anything ... Read more

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019

Tourism is not working. And that’s a good thing.

Responsible Tourism, Social Economy

Most of our time is defined by work. It is how we afford the things we need and want. But more than that – it’s assumed as a measure of ... Read more

June 25, 2019June 25, 2019

The industry needs to focus on implementing solutions: WTM London & the Awards

Responsible Tourism

As the sector bumps up against the limits to growth in a finite world, we need to focus on solutions. From global warming to overtourism, from flooding and potable water ... Read more

June 21, 2019

A Spotlight on the High-Spending Chinese Tourists

Luxury

There is a Chinese proverb that goes, “When the wind of change blows, some build walls, while others build windmills.” When you’re in the tourism and travel industry, you know ... Read more

June 19, 2019June 19, 2019

Why every tourism company should join the new Climate Perks holiday scheme

Responsible Tourism

Climate Perks is a new pilot scheme that has just been launched by 10:10, the UK-based climate solutions NGO. As its new website explains, “Climate Perks employers offer paid ‘journey ... Read more

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019

What can tourism learn from other industries?

Responsible Tourism

Not a lot apparently. Next week is the annual Responsible Business Summit Europe. Organised by Ethical Corporation, it brings together senior executives from some of the biggest companies in the ... Read more

May 28, 2019

Why the Doughnut is a Problem for Tourism

Responsible Tourism

It is official. Yesterday the 34-member Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) determined that we have now entered, in geological terms, the Anthropocene: the Age of Man. The group is still to ... Read more

May 23, 2019

Realising Augmented Reality’s potential

Social Media

On September 1, the Cranborne Chase will launch an app using augmented reality to promote its wares. It’s an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AoNB), largely in West Wiltshire and ... Read more

May 21, 2019May 23, 2019

My four least favourite phrases that tourism should stop using

Responsible Tourism, RT Marketing

Last Friday, the Guardian newspaper announced that it was updating its style guide “to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world.” The paper’s editor Katherine ... Read more

May 17, 2019May 17, 2019

How Can Travel Brands Make Things More Personal For Luxury Travellers?

Luxury

When talking about travel trends, ‘experience’ has been the keyword in trends across the travel industry. As a whole, consumers are choosing to spend on things that enhance their lives ... Read more

May 16, 2019July 10, 2020

Episode 10 – How Podcasting Can Strengthen Your Brand

Previous Podcast

Listen now on iTunes Listen now on Spotify The rise of podcasting into the mainstream has been significant and more and more businesses are seeing audio on demand as ... Read more

May 14, 2019May 16, 2019

Tourism can be a force for good on biodiversity

Responsible Tourism

Just yesterday we heard that Victor Vescovo had descended some 11km to the deepest place in the ocean, the deepest dive ever. He discovered new species of prawn-like crustaceans and ... Read more

May 9, 2019May 9, 2019

ITTA Awards prove they are the Industry Stamp of Approval

Blog

Shortly after the International Travel & Tourism Awards (ITTAs) evening last year, we reached out to all the winners as we wanted to find out if winning an award meant ... Read more

May 7, 2019May 16, 2019

The week when everything changed

Carbon & Water

I wanted to write about May Day. I wanted to write about working less and remaking our connection to the earth. I really didn’t want to write about climate change. ... Read more

April 30, 2019May 16, 2019

The aviation industry is our sector’s Achilles’ heel.

Responsible Tourism

Last week the UK’s Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary, Michael Gove, admitted that “we have not done nearly enough” on man-made climate change. Gove went on, “Suddenly in the ... Read more

April 29, 2019May 3, 2019

Saudi Arabia’s Tourism; Mega Projects and a New Vision of Openness to the World

Blog

Dubai’s Arabian Travel Market (ATM) is an opportunity to promote Saudi Arabia’s tourism products, services and destinations, as well as its tourism investment opportunities. The annual world-renowned event also contributes ... Read more

April 25, 2019April 25, 2019

Uber + Zoom: great employee experiences, good for business too

Blog

How to build a future-proof travel policy Is your company travel policy prepared for changes in traveler trends and tech? For travel managers, the day-to-day responsibility of managing a travel ... Read more

April 25, 2019

Facing down challenges and seizing opportunities in the airline business

Aviation

The airline industry has always faced its share of challenges. The key to survival is a rigorous management of costs whilst being versatile in adapting to shifts in market conditions ... Read more

April 22, 2019May 16, 2019

How should tourism mark Earth Day 2019?

Responsible Tourism

This Monday – April 22, is Earth Day. It’s the 49th anniversary of the event, first celebrated in 1970. And this year, the theme is “Protect our Species”. What should ... Read more