Podcast: Challenges and Opportunities for the Hospitality Industry July 01, 2009
Incentive’s sister brand, Commercial Property News, recently sat down with Bjorn Hanson, clinical associate professor of the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University, to discuss the major issues the industry is confronting today and the trends at the recent NYU Hospitality Conference. Here Dr. Hanson discusses strategies for new hotel brands, the lodging industry’s response to consumers’ new frugality, and when things will start getting better for the industry.
Incentive/IMRA Sales Excellence Awards Winners Announced Incentive magazine announced the winners of its 15th annual Sales Excellence Awards earlier this week, celebrating the best and most successful independent representative firms in the industry.
U.S. Travel Association Forms Meetings, Incentives, Trade Show Council The U.S. Travel Association has created a new board member council that will build a proactive meetings and incentives research, communications, government relations and promotion agenda, it announced yesterday.
President Signs Travel Promotion Act President Barack Obama today signed the Travel Promotion Act into law, creating the public-private Corporation for Travel Promotion tasked with marketing America as a tourism destination around the globe.
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