Business Travel News

Risk-taking innovation in the corporate travel space is hard to find. Sharing economy services with robust reporting and safety tools, however, will make change inevitable.

Convention bureaus are shifting their priorities to connect more people from disparate backgrounds, cultures and industries in an effort to drive new business development, competitive advantage, and knowledge sharing.

Aviation is taking advantage of outsider perspectives and capabilities to push innovation forward. With proper management, these programs could prove fruitful both for the industry and passengers. We’re maintaining healthy skepticism, but the solution to systemic problems is often fresh thinking.

Loyalty is the big battle ahead for travel brands in 2016.

There's a lot of work that goes into matching hundreds of conference attendees with hundreds of local residents who want to cook for them. But as international food-sharing platforms fine-tune their systems, this could be something that scales significantly based simply on growing attendee awareness and demand.

We're seeing a rise of conference programming around digital technology designed to engage mass audiences beyond the business tech crowd. This is redefining how meeting planners should design their own meeting and event content, and how they should identify their attendees.

BC Tech Summit is illustrative of a growing number of conferences worldwide that showcase advances in business technology by using simple language and interactive exhibits to engage next generation citizens and consumers.

TripAdvisor believes tours and activities will be its next billion-dollar revenue business and it is upgrading its platform to enable consumers to book tours on the TripAdvisor desktop and apps. It's all about revenue and making TripAdvisor a stickier site to book everything on the planet. Flights anyone?

How are tour operators adapting, and what strategies are helping them thrive in this dynamic environment?