As a travel agent or tour operator, staying up-to-date on current affairs that influence customers’ tourism needs can help keep your sales growing and stay ahead of competitors. Staying abreast of news affecting tourism demands gives travel agents and tour operators’s an edge over rivals and allows for higher sales conversion rates.
This week, we’ve curated a list of travel industry news sites worth keeping an eye on. From breaking stories to research reports, your clients may turn to these sources when planning their trips.
Entorno Turistico
Entorno Turistico is a travel news website dedicated to keeping tour operators, students and entrepreneurs updated with current events in Mexico. Their site features breaking news articles as well as in-depth pieces covering tourism industry news, economy issues and trends within local communities.
B-Travel, an industry event scheduled from 1 to 3 April 2022, marks the start of Summer Campaign 2022 and introduces new trust mechanisms through participating destinations and companies.
Travel Weekly
Travel Weekly is one of the travel industry’s premier sources for news, research, opinion and analysis. Reaching a wide industry audience via print media, online media and face-to-face events throughout the year, it reaches a broad industry readership.
Website featuring articles covering airlines, car rental agencies, cruise lines, destinations, hotels and tour operators services as well as conferences and awards ceremonies.
Jacobs Media Group is a UK publishing and events company focused on serving the travel industry with titles like The Caterer, Aspire, Travolution, Connections, Connecting Travel and Global Travel Week. Established in 1969 in Victoria London UK as business-to-business travel publisher.
FVW Medien
FVW Medien, a German travel news website that produces quality content geared specifically towards those within the tourism industry. Their site delivers up-to-date travel trends, locations and niche market updates.
Content on their site is targeted primarily towards German speaking tour operators and includes benchmarking data and business resources relevant to tourism.
FVW media also hosts events that bring decision makers and professionals from the tourism, business travel and travel sales sectors together, such as conventions, conferences, trade shows, workshops fam trips or roadshows. Their event team can take care of everything from conceptual design through location scouting, participant management and professional follow-up.
Travel Daily News
Travel Daily News has been reporting on the latest news in travel for more than two decades, providing your business with up-to-date coverage on digital trends and developments within tourism.
They conduct exclusive interviews with some of the finest professionals in the travel industry, such as tour operators, hotels and technology specialists. Such stories are rather rare among travel news websites so make sure to give this one a read for something unique!
BBC
The BBC is an iconic global news source favored by both tourists and travel agents alike, providing reliable news coverage in multiple languages with frequent tourism-related articles, breaking news alerts, editorials and columns that provide useful travel-industry-specific news coverage.
BBC Two also hosts an in-depth travel show called the Travel Show that first debuted in 2013 and can be found broadcasting worldwide events worldwide. Comprised of international correspondents reporting travel-related news stories, this program can be seen weekly on BBC Two.
