Following this year's ITB Convention in Berlin, a number of presentations have been provided on the ITB website. These cover a variety of tourism and hospitality related subjects, including Business Travel, Social Media and Wellness. Selected videos are also available to watch on the website. Sign up to their newsletter to find out about future events.
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ITB Berlin Convention 2013
Following this year's ITB Convention in Berlin, a number of presentations have been provided on the ITB website. These cover a variety of tourism and hospitality related subjects, including Business Travel, Social Media and Wellness. Selected videos are also available to watch on the website. Sign up to their newsletter to find out about future events.The ASEAN Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2012
It provides economic profiles of 139 countries, allowing cross-country analysis on how attractive a country is in terms of potential for development in travel and tourism, for making well-informed business decisions.
Tourism Highlights: 2012 edition
Tourism Highlights, a report by UNWTO, presents a concise overview of international tourism in the world based on the results for the year 2011. The 16 page booklet includes:- Key trends in international tourism in 2011
- Results by (sub)region and country of destination
- World’s top tourism destinations
- Outbound tourism by region and top spenders
- Long-term forecast: Tourism towards 2030
The latest edition of the UNWTO newsletter is now available online; this month, we're informed of upcoming events and details of new reports as well as a special story on tourism in the Gambia.Here's a tourism fact from UNWTO:
Africa has been one of the fastest growing tourism regions in the world. In the first eight months of 2012, international tourists to Africa increased by 6%, way above the global average of 4%. UNWTO expects international tourist arrivals to the region to more than double by 2030 to reach 134 million up from the current 50 million.
Social Media
This article discusses outcomes from a panel at the 2012 Adventure Travel World Summit looking at future trends in marketing; conclusions were that the humble video is now very much the new ‘big thing’ in social media marketing. They use the case study of an online travel company Airbnb, to illustrate the point; they successfully launched their Air TV channel, using videos to show potential customers the types of accommodation on offer.
Rob Torres, Google’s head of travel, gives his perspective on the power of
adventure travel content.
adventure travel content.
TS Annual Conference 2012
Following the Tourism Society's recent Annual Conference, the slides from key presentations can be viewed here.
The highlights of the event have also been packed into this video :
Webinar : 2012 Creative Tourism
2012 Creative Tourism Webinar: Continuing The Global Conversation
Streamed live on Thursday, June 28, 2012
Europe 3:00 p.m. Central European Time
Can’t join us for the live session?
Visit www.creativewebinar.org where the archived video will be available by July 15, 2012UNWTO - Newsletter
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UNWTO - Newsletter
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Manuel tourisme et patrimoine récent
Mutual Heritage is a project that is part of the cultural heritage Euromed Heritage 4 programme which aims to extend the base of proactive stakeholders on issues concerning heritage in the Mediterranean area.
A document representing one of the components of Mutual Heritage, entitled 'Manuel tourisme et patrimoine récent' (Handbook on Tourism and Recent Heritage) can now be accessed online.
Strategic Framework Second Phase Action Plans
This month's Bulletin is a message from CEO, James Berresford who talks about the Strategic Framework for Tourism in England 2010–2020, which was launched in March 2010 and identified the need to develop nine Action Plans to assist in coordinating and driving forward priority actions.
The aim of this consultation is to gain your feedback on the actions identified. In particular is the need to identify:
• Who will take responsibility for leading each action and driving its implementation?
• Which organisations, businesses and partners should sign-up to deliver the actions in their area, business, organisation, destination or association?
VisitBritain are seeking feedback from all parties with a stake in the visitor economy, on each of the Action Plans. To help you formulate your response, a set of consultation questions is included at the end of each Action Plan.
The consultation closes on 1 March 2012 and all feedback should be emailed to frameworkconsultation@visitengland.org. Please clearly label which Action Plan your feedback relates to or whether your feedback is general and relates to all of the Action Plans. The completed Action Plans will be published in March 2012.
Tourism and more.com
Tourism & More.com is a website set up and run by Dr Peter Tarlow (author of 'Event Risk Management and Safety') which provides details on upcoming seminars, conferences and training. It also features the 'Tourism Tidbits' newsletter, aimed at giving "travel professionals a monthly, easy-to-read overview of creative ideas". It's published in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish.Sign up to receive the newsletter by emailing ptarlow@tourismandmore.com. Please contact them if you would like to see a particular topic covered by 'Tourism Tidbits'. Articles submitted for consideration for publication are welcomed.
Tourism "vital" for the UK economy
In his recent speech, the prime minister said tourism is vital to help the UK get back on track, that it's "fundamental to the rebuilding and rebalancing of our economy". He stated the industry contributes £115bn to the British economy every year, and would provide "one of the best and fastest ways" of generating jobs and income.Listen to the speech here
Tourismos - Vol. 6, no. 1
Research Papers:
- Nicosia - concerted retailing and tourism strategies to awaken a neglected and sleeping beauty
- Local residents' preferences for second home tourism development policies: a choice experiment analysis
- The management of uncertainty in tourism: strategic paradoxes and communication
- Community-based tourism in developing countries: a case study
- Ethical approaches and their application in hotel managers' decision making
- Gendered leisure: are women more constrained in travel for leisure?
- Market segmentation in wine tourism: a comparison of approaches
- Second homes and the need for policy planning
- New tourism in a new society arises from “peak oil”
- Measuring results of training with ROI method: an application in a 5-star hotel in Antalya region of Turkey
- Mice tourism in Piedmont: economic perspective and quantitative analysis of customer satisfaction
- Nautical tourism in fostering the sustainable development: a case study of Croatia’s coast and island
- International tourism, domestic tourism and environmental change: environmental education can find the balance
- Ecotourism and its impact on the regional economy – a study of North Bengal (India)
- Rent-a-car industry: a case study in Argentina
- Assessment of nature-based tourism in South Kelantan, Malaysia
- The role of transportation in the development of tourism in Nigeria
Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report
The 2010-11 Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum is now available online here.It provides country/economic profiles of 124 countries which allows cross-country analysis in order to make informed business decisions on how attractive a country is in terms of potential for development in travel and tourism.
VisitEngland e-News Feb 2011
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The annual International Centre for Responsible Tourism (ICRT) conference supported by VisitEngland and ABTA was held in January 2011 and provided a great insight into future strategies on tourism sustainability for the UK. For more on the conference and to hear presentations click here.
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On 24th January VisitEngland hosted the first in a series of tourism workshops for the newly approved Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). The workshop, addressed by the Tourism Minister John Penrose MP, focused on the positive impact that tourism brings to local economies and opportunities for local growth. More...
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A conference was recently held to review ETIP’s (English Tourism Intelligence Partnership) three year programme and identify future priorities. Announcements included the continuation of the Office of National Statistics (ONS) Tourism Intelligence Unit for one year, the creation of a new Day Visits Survey and the extension of David Quarmby’s Chairmanship to July. Read more on the ETIP Conference
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The majority of the draft Action Plans will go out for industry consultation next week for a 5-6 week period. The consultation period has been extended to allow the industry the opportunity to review the draft action plans alongside the Coalition Government’s tourism policy expected to be published shortly. More on the Action Plan consultation
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