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Business Travel Is Back, With a Frugal Tone
Companies are trying a number of tactics to hold down their travel bills, including using more videoconferencing and bringing back the per diem.
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The Navigator: Travel insurance claims can hinge on the tiniest details
When it comes to travel insurance claims, Hannah Yun was about as sure as anyone that hers would be successful. She’d bought a gold-plated “cancel for any reason” policy for a trip to South Korea. When her boyfriend proposed and she decided to call off the trip to start planning her wedding, she thought that collecting a check would be just a formality. Read full article >>
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Travel business rebounding as agents adapt to tech-savvy generation
The Internet has become a game-changer for the travel industry. But it was also a job-killer. Thousands of travel agency professionals lost their jobs, and small mom-and-pop agencies either were absorbed by giant travel companies or disappeared.
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Travel & Tourism in the Americas contributes more to GDP than automotive manufacturing
The Travel & Tourism industry in the Americas region is three times the size of automotive manufacturing and roughly one-third larger than chemicals manufacturing and mining. This is according to new research from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) sponsored by American Express, launched on the first day of WTTC"s first Regional Summit of the Americas in the Riviera Maya, Mexico from 16 ...
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Travel & Tourism Industry Driving Economic Recovery In The Americas: Report
The WTTC argues that travel and tourism’s contribution to GDP is faster than most other sectors in the Americas and will grow by 3.6 percent over the next 10 years, a much faster rate than mining (1.5 percent), education (2 percent), chemicals (2.5 percent) and financial services (3.4 percent).
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