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Four Takeaways from Destinations International
Andrew van der Feltz | August 2, 2024
By Andrew van der Feltz, Global Senior Director, Business Development, Expedia Group Media Solutions Several key themes drove the conversation at this year’s Destinations International Annual Convention. While some of these topics aren’t necessarily new, their impact on destinations and the opportunities they create are evolving. Hear are our top four takeaways from this year’s event. 1. Improving underserved travelers’ experiences should be a priority. Diversity and inclusion play a vital role in travel. Conversations highlighted perspectives on social inclusion from a range of destination marketing organizations, including H...
Survey Finds Optimism for COVID-19 Recovery Growing Among Destination Organizations
MMGY Global | April 28, 2020
KANSAS CITY, MO (April 28, 2020) – MMGY Travel Intelligence, in partnership with Destinations International Foundation, has released the findings from the fourth wave of a series of bi-weekly tracking surveys of North American destination professionals. The survey, which assesses how organizations in this sector are impacted by and reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic, revealed that over the last two weeks respondents’ outlook on their local tourism economies has started to improve. The percentage of destination professionals who expect their local economy to worsen fell sharply from 72 percent in Wave III of the survey to 41 percent in Wav...
Latest Industry Survey Shows How North American Destination Organizations Are Impacted by the Escalating Effects of COVID-19
MMGY Global | March 26, 2020
Pandemic has dramatically shifted sector’s sentiment and spending in two weeks KANSAS CITY, MO (March 26, 2020) – MMGY Travel Intelligence, in partnership with Destinations International Foundation, has released the inaugural findings from a benchmark series of bi-weekly surveys of North American destination professionals. The surveys track how this sector has been affected by COVID-19 and what shifts organizations are making during a period of very fluid change. Preliminary findings reveal that, in the span of about two weeks, the reverberations of the pandemic dramatically changed the sector’s outlook, operations and marketing sp...
