TODAY: Rosewood to open second London hotel, China billion dollar tourism deficit and TMC Q&A.
Rosewood to open second hotel in London.
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts has been appointed by global real estate investment firm Qatari Diar to manage a new, ultra-luxury hotel located on picturesque Grosvenor Square in London’s prestigious Mayfair district.
China grapples with $217 billion tourism deficit in 2016.
As Chinese tourists tend to flock to destinations along the ‘Belt and Road' regions, maintaining tourism trade balance against the tourism markets along the ‘Belt and Road' is still a challenge. China faced a tourism trade deficit as Chinese tourists spent USD 261B abroad while China’s inbound tourism receipt for the year was USD 45B.
Historical decision: approval of the UNWTO Framework on Tourism Ethics.
The member States of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) approved an historical document - the UNWTO Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics, the Convention, approved at the 22nd UNWTO General Assembly transforms the Code of Ethics for Tourism into an international convention, the first in the life of the Organization.
Top 5 TMC questons asked and answered.
As companies increasingly invest in business travel, they must equally invest in a managed travel program that balances employee needs with corporate goals and unraveling the intricacies of travel management can be daunting without a travel management company in tow.
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Managing the Evolution of Wellness in the World of Hospitality.
In an increasingly complex environment, where the term wellness has now been diluted to cover everything from the provision of an athletics concierge to medical treatments.
Owners and asset managers require advice to help focus their investment on the most appropriate services that will enhance their existing offering.
The Mobile Purchase Funnel - A Real-Life Airline Example.
Forget the conventional wisdom in travel that consumers ‘browse on phone, book on desktop’, consumers now reach for their smartphones for both searching and purchasing.
Twenty-five percent of all cross-device transactions completed on a desktop started on a smartphone, and 35% of those completed on a smartphone started on a desktop.
New Platform Tourism Services (or the so-called Sharing Economy) â€" Understand, Rethink and Adapt Description
This report aims to gain a better understanding of how new platform tourism services, or the so-called Sharing Economy, is shaping the tourism sector.
It seeks to identify the specific opportunities and challenges it poses across destinations, how these are being addressed, and the way forward.
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