Company travel managers will maintain only essential travel until at least the second half of the year and are working on their budgets with an eye toward 2022, believing that the conditions are not in place to normalize business travel. In the meantime, suppliers are striving to maintain flexible conditions and support corporate clients, according to the conclusions of Forum Business Travel's first session of the year. Leer más
Fourteen tourism subsectors have united for the first time in history to draw attention to the critical situation facing the sector and the imminent threat of an avalanche of bankruptcies of companies and businesses. In addition to once again asking the government for a direct aid plan, among many other measures, it has offered its resources to accelerate vaccination and reach 70% before the summer. Leer más
Christie & Co, an international consulting firm specializing in the hotel sector, has published its new hotel investment analysis for 2020, a year marked by an unprecedented crisis that has hit the tourism sector particularly hard. Investment activity in 2020 has fallen back to levels that the market has not seen for more than five years. Leer más
The International Air Travel Association (IATA) is in the final stages of developing the IATA Travel Pass, a digital health pass that will support the secure reopening of borders, akin to a health passport. The project aims to manage and verify the flow of necessary evidence and vaccine information between governments, airlines, laboratories and travelers. Major airlines will begin implementing it in March. Leer más
Forum Business Travel welcomes a new sponsor for its continuing education program. It is Apartool, the provider of temporary accommodation for companies moving their employees. The platform, born in 2015, allows you to book more than 25,000 rental and monthly paid accommodations worldwide.
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The level of global risks to the workforce has reached its highest point since 2016, according to the findings of International SOS's recent Risk Outlook 2021 report. Economic and political turbulence will exacerbate tensions, civil unrest and crime. Therefore, organizations will need to evolve their duty of care practices. Leer más