Fairmont Bee Sustainable launches new digital platform featuring live hive monitoring and in-depth honey analysis to increase awareness of global bee health.
Dallas and Fort Worth Mayors lead business mission to Australia
Dallas and Fort Worth Mayors are leading a business mission June 5-12 to Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, promoting the importance of air service and its direct ties to trade advancement, business opportunities, and tourism throughout the North Texas region.
UNWTO launches Sustainable Tourism Observatory
The Observatory monitors the effect tourism has, the data will then be used to assess how tourism can best be used to help drive sustainable growth and development.
Hoteliers in atypical destinations cash in with Airbnb
At the PATA Annual Summit in the Philippines, Airbnb announced new data that highlights how the Airbnb community is growing tourism in off-the-beaten-track destinations across Asia Pacific, and helping to disperse the benefits of tourism beyond big cities and major tourism hotspots.
Dubai College of Tourism’s Chinese Travellers Standards Program
The Chinese Traveller Standards will be embedded into the Dubai Way program, one of the interactive training tools developed by Dubai College of Tourism.
If you can’t fight Airbnb, join them?
“We are flattered that those in the travel sector who were once skeptical of home sharing now seek to replicate the Airbnb model.”
John O’Sullivan to depart Tourism Australia
Tourism Australia has today (Monday, 6 May) advised that its Managing Director, John O’Sullivan, is leaving the organisation to take up a new role as CEO and Executive Director of the ASX-listed company, Experience Co.
UNWTO partners with Telefónica to promote tourism sector digitalization
Telefónica and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) have announced an agreement to collaborate in the development and implementation of digital entrepreneurship and training initiatives that allow the tourism sector to increase its competitiveness and strengthen its long-term sustainability.
The road to Tokyo 2020 and beyond: WiT Japan & North Asia returns to ask the tough questions
Japan’s inbound continues to surge, reaching over 30m visitors in 2018, inching ever closer to its goal of 40m by 2020 and 60m in another decade. How are brands in travel and beyond bracing themselves for the influx? How will Japan maintain its prominence and allure as a top destination amid rising competition? Will Japanese travel brands maintain dominance on their home turf as foreign brands enter and expand, or are collaboration and consolidation key to a shared victory? How can Japan spread tourism beyond its main cities? How will smaller players survive in an age of consolidation and scale?
Tourism in Lombok on its feet again for 2019
Majority of tourism operations in Lombok, Indonesia, are open again and hungry for business as they recover from the natural setbacks of 2018. @KhiriTravel
