WTTC and Deloitte jointly launch initiative on future of work transformations in Travel & Tourism

With one in five new jobs created in the last five years coming from Travel & Tourism; recognised sector leaders are prioritising the Future of Work and engaging in this important initiative.  

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Thomas Cook seeks funding to keep company afloat

The tour operator and airline owner said it was in discussions with lenders and investors Friday as it sought to come up with 200 million British pounds.

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Apple Leisure's Alex Zozaya on riding out 'the perfect storm'

The company's executive chairman spoke about the challenges it faced as the result of complications from its merger with Mark Travel and issues such as sargassum in Mexico and headlines about tourist deaths in the Dominican Republic.

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Adventure Green Alaska is now a GSTC-Recognized Standard

The Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) announced that the Adventure Green Alaska Standards for Accommodations and for Tour-Operators have achieved the ‘GSTC-Recognized Standard’ status.  Adventure Green Alaska began in 2007 as a statewide effort to grow sustainable tourism in Alaska and promote model businesses practicing economic, environmental and social sustainability. It is Alaska’s only sustainable tourism certification program and was created entirely by volunteers. The program came under the Alaska Travel Industry Association in 2015, whose goal was to grow the program

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Trip.com’s Nearly Quarter Century Odyssey as a Can’t Lose Travel Domain, Right?

In 2016, Silicon Valley startup Gogobot bought the Trip.com domain from Expedia and rebranded. Trip.com

Skift Take: Buying a compelling travel domain like Trip.com and thinking it assures success is like the people who buy a restaurant and think they can run it because they are foodies. Several major travel companies squandered the Trip.com domain because it was a side hustle. Moral of the story? A brand is only as good as the real-world business behind it.

— Dennis Schaal

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Wholesaler Hotelbeds Cuts Ties to Booking Sites That Break Hotel Distribution Rules

Shown here is the Hotelbeds stand at the ITB trade fair in Berlin in March 2019. Hotelbeds Group

Skift Take: The collapse last week of Amoma suggests that an industrywide crackdown on online travel agencies that violate hotel contracts is getting serious. For example, many hoteliers have wanted Hotelbeds to crack down on bad behavior by some agencies. The distributor of wholesale rates has responded by taking action.

— Sean O'Neill

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Tourlane strengthens leadership with new Senior Marketing appointments

Berlin-based Travel-Tech company Tourlane brings on key marketing hires from Airbnb, Expedia, HomeToGo, and Kayak as the company enters its next stage of growth.  

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