Big hotel chains and SMEs are promoting the macro projects "Smart hotel" and the "Platform for tourism intelligence and marketing" as part of the European Recovery Plan. The initiatives have been channeled through the Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation (CEHAT) and the Hotel Technology Institute (ITH). Leer más
?How will travel be this year? SAP Concur experts are optimistic that it will be marked by innovation, recovery and renewal. Travel will resume, but in a more sustainable and responsible manner. New technologies will have more weight each year, and longer stays will prevail. Leer más
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