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Mastercard: Top 5 emerging trends at Arabian Travel Market 2024Source: The Heart of Europe. Floating villas and artificial island living are among the top sought after emerging experiences travellers are longing for. | |
#BizTrends2024: Unveiling key trends in the travel and tourism sector[Nombulelo Guliwe] Today and tomorrow’s traveller is highly evolved, technologically. But far from being detached, unfeeling robots, they are still deeply human, and seek meaningful human experiences, writes SA Tourism’s acting CEO Nombulelo Guliwe... | |
#BizTrends2024: Top 10 travel trends for 2024[Martin Wiest] Martin Wiest, CEO of Tourvest Destination Management, provides insights into the future of travel, offering a glimpse into the trends that will shape our journeys and connections in the years to come... | |
#BizTrends2024: 5 tourism and travel megatrends to take note of in 2024[Sabine Lehmann] Sabine Lehmann, founder and CEO of Curiositas, reveals the five megatrends shaping the tourism and travel landscape in 2024. She shares a roadmap for businesses to stay ahead... | |
#BizTrends2024: Practical AI for tourism businesses – saving time for your highest-value work[Natalia Rosa] Natalia Rosa, founder and CEO of Big Ambitions, shares actionable AI insights for the tourism industry... | |
#BizTrends2023: How hoteliers should prepare for a cookieless world using first-party data[Stewart Smith] To stay competitive this year and beyond, hoteliers must find new ways to collect and activate data, says Stewart Smith, managing director of sales, Middle East and Africa at Sojern... | |
#BizTrends2023: Renewed focus on domestic, intra African travellers among top themes for 2023Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa, CEO, Tourism Business Council of South Africa | |
#BizTrends2023: Technology, sustainable travel to go hand-in-hand as the world continues to be on the move[Hariprasad Viswanathan] Hariprasad Viswanathan, head of sub-Saharan Africa at VFS Global shares five key trends that will impact international travel in 2023... | |
#BizTrends2023: Bridging the skills shortage gap is key to the travel and tourism industry's post-pandemic recovery[Enver Duminy] A collaborative effort to upskill our unemployed workforce is crucial for the future of the travel and tourism sector, says Enver Duminy, CEO of Cape Town Tourism... | |
#BizTrends2023: The reckoning of 2023[Paul de Waal] Paul de Waal, founder and CEO of Wetu says that 2023 will be a year filled with opportunities and that forming the balance between human and digital is imperative for success in a tech-heavy world... | |
#BizTrends2022: Flexibility, bleisure travel and flexcations are the new normal in travelJonathan Ayache, Founder and CEO of Lift | |
#BizTrends2022: 6 sustainable travel trends set to dominate in 2022[Sue Garrett] Since 2020, the travel and tourism industries have primarily focused on health and safety, fighting tooth and nail for survival following the global impact of Covid-19. However, that doesn't mean that travel brands... | |
#BizTrends2022: The rise and rise of aparthotels[Andrew Rogers] The tourism, hospitality and property sectors bore the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic's transformative economic and social impact... | |
#BizTrends2022: The rise of the domestic traveller[Alan Campbell] Alan Campbell, sales and marketing director at ANEW Hotels & Resorts, tells us why we should use this opportunity to explore our own country, which has more to offer the leisure and business traveller than even South Africans realise... | |
#BizTrends2022: Acquired agility will underpin hybrid events[Carol Weaving] When the sheer scale of the global pandemic became clearer in early February 2020, there was little in the way of formal, comparable data to help the events industry understand Covid-19's immediate and longer-term impact on our customers and our events... | |
#BizTrends2022: The future of out-of-home entertainment[Sabine Lehmann] To compete successfully with in-home entertainment in a post-pandemic era, OOH entertainment options need to understand how the world has changed and find ways to give us what we want beyond the four walls of our homes... | |
#BizTrends2022: 10 insights impacting hospitality and global travel for 2022[Rosemary Anderson] The hospitality sector has had to re-evaluate, rethink, reimagine and reset as to how it can be relevant in a post-Covid-19 world... | |
#BizTrends2022: Tourism tribe, let's be more intentional in 2022[Natalia Rosa] Like a toddler on a sweetie binge, 2021 served up an unending frenzy of opportunity and devastation. Sometimes the only thing separating these have been a few blissful hours of ignorance, particularly if you work in the travel, tourism and hospitality sector... | |
Travel trends for 2022: The rise of revenge travel, bleisure trips, and workations[Oz Desai] The pandemic caused everyone to lose out on the opportunity to enjoy life to the fullest for well over a year, whether that meant having to put much-anticipated adventures on hold or not being able to spend time... | |
Virtual reality and tourism in 2021[Chelsey Hale] "Virtual reality, or VR, is something that we have heard a lot about over the last few months - especially in response to Covid-19. It is becoming a big part of travel and tourism with many questions cropping up on what it looks like, how it works and, most importantly, how we can leverage it." |