Business Travel Consultant with long professional experience,Scott Gillespie Scott Gillespie is one of the leading theorists on the return on investment in business travel, as well as the concept of traveler friction. Author of Gillespie's Guide to Travel Innovation, he is the founder of tClara, a Cleveland-based consulting firm specializing in supplier negotiation and training. Leer más
The National Union of Travel Agencies (UNAV) makes a very pessimistic balance of the situation in its segment. After a year of the first state of alarm decree, they criticize that they cannot work normally, that there is a threat of closure for hundreds of establishments and that the aids are insufficient and without concretion. In the best of scenarios they calculate to invoice half that in 2019. Leer más
The kick-off will be on March 22 with the celebration of HIP-Hospitality Innovation Planet, the first face-to-face fair in Spain after a full year of stoppage, which will be followed by at least fifty events in the same format. To this end, Ifema has implemented a comprehensive security plan and the recovery of the workforce. The biggest milestone will be the celebration of Fitur. Leer más
In the latest quarter, Amadeus' travel agency bookings contracted 79.4%, an improvement on the 89.8% decline in the third quarter, thanks to stronger growth in gross bookings and a steady deceleration in the level of cancellations. The technology company remains optimistic about the future of travel.
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The Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport has launched an R&D pilot project for the biomedical detection of passengers through tablets. The process will improve the travel experience by streamlining all boarding procedures and eliminating any type of physical contact with the facial recognition of users, which further increases security. Leer más
The desire to go out will be the main accelerator of the recovery of travel, once the health crisis begins to rebound with the measures underway, according to travel agents consulted by Observatur. There is a fear among professionals in the retail channel that, after months of crisis and mobility restrictions, operators and tourism infrastructures may disappear. Leer más