Amadeus and Seera Group have strengthened their partnership to drive technological innovation in the Middle East. Seera Group works closely with Amadeus to strengthen its online business further, integrating digital touch-points across all its operations, including its flagship corporate and government travel business, elaa. As the travel tech provider across Seera’s diverse portfolio of services, […] More
The Nevis Tourism Authority has appointed Jadine Yarde to the role of chief executive of the organisation following an exhaustive review. The board conducted extensive interviews with more than 40 finalists which focused on their vision to grow the destination. Also examined werr their relevant and creative traditional and digital marketing strategies, proposals for engaging […] More
The World Travel & Tourism Council has moved its annual Global Summit to Cancun, Mexico. The body had earlier unveiled plans to host the event in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The mission of the WTTC is to promote sustainable growth for the tourism sector globally, so the organisation “has decided to change the location of […] More
Saga has announced that Chris Simmonds will be returning to Saga Holidays in March as its new managing director. He will be replacing Maria Whiteman, who left the company late last year. Having previously worked for Saga Holidays, as part of the executive team, Simmonds left Saga ten years ago to combine his love for […] More
The Travel Corporation has appointed Carol Dray to the newly created position of director of e-commerce and partner integration. The move is part of a wider ongoing focus on the development of its e-commerce proposition. Dray will be working to drive the development and implementation of the e-commerce strategy across the core collection of the […] More
The coronavirus outbreak in China could have a damaging and lasting economic impact on the global tourism sector unless lessons are learned from previous viral epidemics. That is according to a statement from Gloria Guevara, chief executive of the World Travel & Tourism Council, and comes as the coronavirus crisis escalates. Guevara was formerly tourism […] More
New data from ForwardKeys has revealed tourism to the Caribbean grew by 4.4 per cent in 2019, in step with worldwide growth. Analysis of the most important origin markets shows that the increase in visitors was driven by North America, with travel from the USA (which accounts for 53 per cent of visitors) up 6.5 […] More
