Reading Time: 2 minutes As 2022 marches on and the travel industry continues to recover from the impacts of COVID-19, business travel seems to be slowly trending upwards. Employees are increasingly willing and ready to travel for work again, to meet face-to-face with colleagues they have not seen since 2020 or before. Travel management companies are more optimistic than […]
Read More →Reading Time: 3 minutes Hospitality industry professionals joined together at the Cvent CONNECT 2022 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in mid-April. Conference attendees included event professionals, marketers, business partners and hospitality. The conference gave attendees an opportunity to network with peers, discuss event planning best practices, discover planning technology, learn tips for managing event recovery volumes, attend thought leadership […]
Read More →Reading Time: 3 minutes In a world where year-over-year metrics are no longer relevant, how should our industry measure success? As the hospitality industry sector continues to progress on its slow path to recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, traditional metrics that once guided strategic planning and progress measurement are, at least temporarily, rendered rather useless. For the vast majority […]
Read More →Reading Time: 3 minutes In-person events, specifically industry conferences, are slowly returning during the last quarter of 2021, more than a year after COVID-19 first disrupted travel and meetings across the globe. Onyx’s Jim Casale, VP, Product, Global Payments, and Dee Thomas, Product Director, Emerging Payments, attended HEDNA’s 2021 Global Distribution Conference from October 11-12 in Miami, FL. HEDNA’s […]
Read More →Reading Time: 6 minutes After over a year of the industry hosting exclusively virtual events, travel companies were finally able to meet again in person when Cvent hosted its CONNECT Conference in Las Vegas in early August 2021. The conference gave attendees an opportunity to network with other hospitality professionals to discuss event planning best practices, planning technology, and […]
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