Business Travel News

We like to think we've taken some of the best practices from the meetings and conventions space and applied them to our own event.

Why use any old private jet service when you happen to own the "best" company with the "best" people? Tremendous.

Airbnb may be raising the visibility of traditional serviced apartments in the business travel space. It remains to be seen whether homesharing represents an existential threat to established corporate housing providers.

These are the tourism trends we were talking about this week.

There's not enough rich storytelling in the travel industry, says Wolff Olins CEO Ije Nwokorie. We tend to agree.

Travel marketers would be wise to take a data-driven approach, rather than falling back on stereotypes, which makes for lazy messaging.

Packaged travel giant The Travel Corporation is turning to influencers and stronger narrative marketing to appeal to the next generation of tourists.

Many of the mergers and acquisitions among leisure travel agencies have been sought after by big companies looking to grow their sales volume, for a variety of reasons. But an aging population of agency owners is looking for an escape hatch as well, adding fuel to the acquisition frenzy.

These are the tourism trends we were talking about this week.

It's going to take a while for Marriott International to figure out which Starwood brands and programs it wants to keep. After that, expect the consolidation to affect the corporate negotiation process.