High production value — including quality event design — is incredibly important when it comes to matching live engagement online, which almost half of eventprofs struggle with when sourcing virtual tech.

it will be essential for planners to turn to hybrid formats and incorporate a virtual component to their live events for as long as restrictions and uncertainty exist (and probably even after).

Online events come with their own challenges, including engagement opportunities and pricing.

MGM Resorts International is the latest travel brand to suffer a security attack involving customer details, in an incident that took place last summer.

Details of the incident were uncovered last week by ZDNet, which says the personal details of more than 10 million customers were shared on a hacking forum.

“unauthorized access to a cloud server.”

Ride-hailing platform Didi is hoping to accelerate the development and use of autonomous vehicles as a result of landing a $500 million investment round this week.

Didi claims it is the largest ever fundraising round in China for the autonomous vehicle industry. To-date Didi has raised $21.7 billion in capital.

Previous Didi investment rounds to support the core ride-hailing business hit a high of $5.5 billion in May 2017.

RMS, a leading cloud-based property management system provider, announced today a partnership with M3, the leading cloud-based financial platform in the hospitality industry, to offer clients seamless hotel management solutions.

Hotels and resorts using M3 accounting and analytics technology can now

integrate their property management data from RMS for greater insight into operational performance.

White Lodging has been hit by another POS breach which has affected travelers who made purchases at its restaurant and bar operations within 10 hotels.

The company is clearly trying to reduce its continued vulnerability,

we took various actions to prevent a recurrence, including engaging a third party security firm to provide security technology and managed services. These security measures were unable to stop the current malware occurrence on point of sale systems at food and beverage outlets in 10 hotels that we manage.  We continue to remain committed to investing in the measures necessary to protect the personal information entrusted to us by our valuable guests. 

The private accommodation space continues to grow around the world,

In tandem with that growth in booking volume and in the numbers of properties is the increased development of technologies to support this industry.

As the vacation and short-term rental industry continues to mature and competition heightens, property managers are becoming increasingly driven to improve their use of technology and are adopting more and more software solutions to help them stay ahead of the game.

Without going into technical details, it seems widely accepted that aviation accounted for around 900 million tons of CO2 emission (CO2E) in 2018 equal to an estimated 2.4% of total global emissions (12% of total transportation-related CO2E), and this number is sadly forecast to triple to more than 2,700 million tons of CO2 by 2050.Despite the fact that airlines have become significantly more fuel efficient, we are experiencing a dramatic growth in total aviation emission as the number of planes flying more hours per day keeps growing much faster than the gains made in fuel efficiency.However, because most of the emission happens at high altitude during the actual flight, the “net emission impact” is considered by experts to be twice that number and then further increased due to the amount of energy that goes into production of aviation fuel.

Define your travel program targets for CO2E per day, month, quarter or year

Select travel services based on emission rather than price

42％的人说预订假期时积极的在线体验很重要。

how few opportunities travel companies have to get it right when it comes to providing a good customer experience, no matter what device consumers are using.

40％接受调查的移动预订者表示，他们希望他们在移动设备上预订或研究假期的体验与台式计算机相同或更好。

Every operator has concerns on the cost of labor

This potential mandate has accelerated discussions on automation and other ways to reduce costs

New automated technologies can remove or materially reduce labor and human error.

攻击是利用特许经营物业中两名雇员的登录凭证来访问万豪酒店品牌经营和特许经营的酒店所使用的财产系统

According to the company, the attack was made using the login credentials of two employees at a franchise property to access a property system used by hotels operated and franchised under Marriott’s brands.

The stolen data covers approximately 5.2 million guests and includes contact details such as mailing address, email and phone number; loyalty account information; personal details such as gender and birthday; linked loyalty programs and numbers; and stay preferences.