In times dominated by the global economic and financial crisis, business travel represents a challenge to the entire tourism industry.
With a bumper calendar of mega sporting events, sports tourism is set to play a catalytic role in sparking the recovery of global tourism in 2010. Travel experts predict that the travel industry’s fastest growing sector will post record profits and contribute an astonishing 14% of overall travel and tourism receipts in the year ahead.
Looking for a special way to celebrate New Year’s Eve while giving back to a good cause? Join Joe Piscopo in helping Kids Fight Cancer, a nonprofit organization that has been funding the Oncology Activity Center in Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital since 1985. This unforgettable New Year’s Eve celebration will be held on Dec. 31, 2009 at Germania Place, set in the heart of Chicago’s Gold Coast, just north of Division near Clark Street. The event is open to the public and tickets are now available.
While tickets to London Fashion Week are reserved for the rich and famous, one event offers people the chance to get their hands on some designer gear.
For a unique take on fashion and design, people may want to attend AltaRoma in the Italian capital.
Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP(R)) announced that the 2011 Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC(R)) will be June 20-23 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.
Whoever he is to you, William Shatner reaffirmed that he is one classy guy when he joined crooner Brian Evans at The Hard Rock Café on Maui, Hawaii for the first “Maui Celebrity Series,” being produced by Evans, Arman Zajic, and Andrew Biltz. Evans opens for various stars ranging from Jay Leno to Joan Rivers, and convinced many of his friends to appear at the monthly series.
UNWTO Ministers’ Summit at WTM and individual minister interviews available at www.wtmlondon.com
The International Athletics PSD Bank Meeting will take place in Düsseldorf in February 2010.
A new travel trade event is being launched to target Japan’s luxury market. Blossom Japan will be held in Tokyo in January 2011 as an invitation-only, and will be run by Lucioles, the new company headed by Jay Martens, Co-Founder of the Asia Luxury Travel Market.