How 2 Tour Operator Players Embraced the Pandemic Upheaval

Photo Credit: Ulla Hefel Böhler - CEO, Insight Vacations + Luxury Gold (center) and Travis Pittman, CEO of TourRadar, in discussion with Skift Senior Travel Tech Editor Sean O'Neill at Skift Forum Europe on March 24, 2022 in London. Skift / Russell Harper Photography
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Necessity is the mother of invention, and the pandemic forced companies in the travel industry to develop products quickly so they wouldn't get left behind. Everything was up for reassessment.
The biggest crisis ever to hit the travel industry provided one of the biggest companies in the tour operator sector the opportunity to come out a stronger corporation.
That's the message Ulla Heffer Böhler, chief operating officer for the Travel Corporation, said that her company's chairman and founder Stanley Tollman told staff prior to his passing in 2021. Speaking at Skift Europe Forum on Thursday, Böhler said TTC, which h