When Experience Columbia SC decided it was time to find a more functional and aesthetically pleasing solution for the hotel booking section of its website after using a competitor for years, it turned to Book › Direct. “We were happy to help Experience Columbia SC with its upgrade,” said Briley…
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The challenges faced this past year have brightened the light on the destination ecosystem, shining a spotlight on the need for everyone to be in sync to make your destination work. It has never been more apparent that your partners and stakeholders are a vital part of your destination and that…
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Where We Have Been The MINT+ transformation has launched! Ease of reporting, more meetings data, and reliable universal market segmentation have been implemented, while a suggestive recommendation feature is on the way later this year. Destinations International shepherded the industry’s…
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In this time of global crisis and uncertainty, we put the call out to leaders, CEOs, strategists and consultants to sit down and tell us, in their own words, what is going on and what is going to happen next in this vital global industry. It's hard to shift a paradigm even at the best of times —…
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Travel trends come and go, and while the future of travel is a story that has yet to be written, it’s clear that one trend we wrote about in 2019 has bitten the dust. The trend, popular at the time with Millenials, Gen Z and Baby Boomers alike, was referred to as “micro-travel,” which were shorter…
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A Q&A with Greg Morris The global pandemic brought in-person conferences and meetings to a standstill in 2020. A recent report by the U.S. Travel Association suggests the decline in direct spending generated by the meetings, conventions and trade show industry for 2020 was in the range of $97…
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In this time of global crisis and uncertainty, we put the call out to leaders, CEOs, strategists and consultants to sit down and tell us, in their own words, what is going on and what is going to happen next in this vital global industry. Bill Geist and Mike Gamble are two of my favourite people…
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