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Maitland, FL – October 26, 2021  – This month, Travel Industry Solutions , a leading developer of business, operations, and legal solutions for the travel industry, is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its launch as the industry’s first complete solution to assist travel professionals in remaining compliant with industry standards and systematically grow their businesses with proven and field-tested tools.

About Travel Industry Solutions | Travel Industry Solutions (TIS) is the leader in compliant contracts and ready-to-implement booking tools for travel agencies throughout the U.S. Founded by seasoned executives with decades of experience in the market, from sales and operations to legal and regulatory compliance, Travel Industry Solutions aims to help thousands of travel advisors and agency owners remain one step ahead through updated contracts and simple to use tools. Its solutions are designed to help agencies increase revenue, save money, be more efficient and increase their professionalism through optimized booking tools, customizable client communication, and guidance.

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Make it better, not just safer: The opportunity to reinvent travel

We remember the first time we jumped in a cold lake on a hot summer day with our siblings. The first time we ate street food walking the streets of a new country with college roommates. We even remember the first business trip we took—straight out of college, and too nervous to enjoy the ride.

This desire to build memories, to connect with people, and to see new places drove 1.4 billion of us to travel internationally in 2019. 1 International tourism highlights: 2019 edition, World Tourism Organization, 2019, e-unwto.org. Creating safer travel experiences is now paramount to protect this privilege.

Now is clearly a moment of crisis for the travel industry. Available seat miles on US airlines were down 71 percent in April 2020 from the previous year. 2 Andrew Curley, Alex Dichter, Vik Krishnan, Robin Riedel, and Steve Saxon, “ Coronavirus: Airlines brace for severe turbulence ,” April 2020. Globally, hotels are at 29 percent occupancy, compared with 72 percent over the same period in 2019. 3 STR occupancy data for May 17 through May 23, 2020. However, we are seeing green shoots of demand in areas that are opening up, highlighting an enduring desire to travel; our April survey of Chinese leisure travelers shows that many people are already planning their next trip. 4 Xiang Mi, “Big data from Tongcheng: The average room rate of domestic hotels during the ‘May Day’ rose by about 42% year-on-year,” DoNews , April 27, 2020, donews.com; Kay Chen, Will Enger, Jackey Yu, and Cherie Zhang, “ Hitting the road again: How Chinese travelers are thinking about their first trip after COVID-19 ,” May 2020.

But the future of the travel industry will depend on more than just travelers’ pent-up demand. For some, the romance that travel used to inspire was already wearing thin even before the crisis. We spoke to people across multiple geographies who have traveled in the last two months, 5 Recent traveler interviews conducted May 4 to May 15, 2020, with travelers aged 25–55 from China, Germany, Sweden, and the United States. and the one constant across their experiences was added stress—whether due to limited entry points, multiple new checkpoints, or fellow travelers’ inconsistent compliance with published safety measures.

Safety must be the first priority. Wherever possible, however, intensified health and hygiene protocols should be implemented in ways that avoid making journeys more difficult in the aftermath of the pandemic—for example, the way that travel became logistically more complex after 9/11 because of additional security measures. The imperative to move fast has often meant unilateral decision making, rather than solutions developed through quick, iterative feedback. Any further advance of cold or sterile experiences as a result of the (appropriate) pursuit of safety could radically shift behaviors toward simpler experiences, such as choosing to drive instead fly, or could even dampen the overall recovery.

Travel companies need to excite and attract customers as well as reassure them. To achieve this, leaders should focus on making travel better—not just safer—which means giving travelers more control, offering greater authenticity and personalization, and taking a customer-centric, agile approach.

Moving beyond table-stakes safety initiatives

Many travel companies have already announced a series of health and hygiene measures, often promoted with well-known cleaning brands or health experts. But not all of these measures will survive in their current forms: some won’t be effective, some won’t resonate with travelers, and some will prove impossible to deliver consistently and at scale. Constant one-upmanship on cleanliness, though well-intentioned, can be problematic for two reasons. First, each new announcement resets the bar on hygiene standards, leaving industry players scrambling to keep up with initiatives—whether or not they actually improve employee or traveler safety. Second, the travelers we interviewed told us that the fragmentation across new cleanliness programs creates anxiety and confusion about what works and who to trust to keep them safe. If one airport claims that its security process is safer than another’s, for example, why would travelers trust that any airport is safe? Travelers should have confidence in the whole system, rather than be anxious about pieces within it (Exhibit 1).

In fact, a focus on health and hygiene only scratches the surface of the changes that are necessary in the aftermath of the current crisis. Companies can consider three types of interventions to reinvent and reinvigorate travel over the coming years (Exhibit 2).

In addition to table-stakes safety initiatives, a second category of actions can reassure and comfort the public. Brands might differentiate themselves and re-engage their travelers with visible, communications-based cues—such as notifications about the health status of the destination city and personalized notes about the importance of testing and other safety measures. Finally, companies need to move beyond reassuring customers to exciting them, perhaps by looking for opportunities to create exceptional travel experiences.

Making travel better, not just safer

As travel companies redesign their traveler experiences to address risks and anxieties related to COVID-19, they should remember that the pain points and trends that existed before the crisis—such as the shift toward a more digital and personalized journey, and an increased emphasis on wellness and sustainability—have not gone away (Exhibit 3). Airports, for example, are going to have to rethink customer experience in the coming years, but many already understood the importance of improved service and contactless operations. 6 For more, read Melissa Dalrymple and Kevin Dolan, “ Beyond contactless operations: Human-centered customer experience ,” May 2020; “ How customer experience takes flight at the Orlando airport ,” February 2017.

Another example is the high-anxiety purchase journey for flights and lodging, meaningful purchases that often cannot be returned. Simplifying these experiences represents a significant opportunity: before the crisis, we estimated (in partnership with the International Air Transport Association) that the value at stake in making airline ticket retail easier might be $40 billion 7 Riccardo Boin, Alex Cosmas, and Nina Wittkamp, “ Airline retailing: The value at stake ,” November 2019. —equivalent to 4 percent of 2019 revenues—by 2030.

Many initiatives can make the travel experience simultaneously better and safer. Housekeeping services, for instance, will need to adjust for safety concerns, but revised protocols can also reduce environmental impact (such as through less-frequent laundering of sheets during each stay), decrease cost, and give guests more flexibility (by letting them choose their own housekeeping schedule).

Companies will also need to look outside the industry to understand changing consumer expectations. Travelers develop preferences and needs based on their interactions with all companies, not only when they’re on airplanes or in hotels. Companies should consider, for example, how travelers interact with grocery-store clerks, food-delivery persons, or virtual-shopping experts.

Admittedly, the current economic context makes it difficult to expect companies to do more. Indeed, not every good idea will be economically feasible, and there’s little slack in the system for big launches that fail. The good news is that some of the necessary changes will require no significant capital outlay but instead a change in mindset toward customer experience–centric behaviors. Where investment is needed, developing a clear perspective on which actions to prioritize will require balancing of the travelers’ needs with consistent delivery (perhaps with a smaller organization) and the business case’s viability.

Travel companies should bear three principles in mind when designing new protocols and experiences.

Give customers more choice and control

Companies should empower customers to build their own itinerary using smarter, connected digital tools and make it easier for them to modify or cancel their plans. In addition, companies must recognize that the factors that promote customer loyalty may now have shifted; near-term uncertainty may mean, for example, that the ability to cancel a reservation matters more than brand choice or price. The moments that matter might mean more digital than ever and in new places within the customer journey. Solutions and policies that provide choice and control will help to build the trust and confidence necessary to get travelers back on the road and in the air.

Be human and genuine, and personalize the experience

Before the crisis, personalized and unique experiences constituted a dominant trend. Boutique hotels, for instance, were the fastest-growing hotel segment in the United States, with supply increasing 10.6 percent between 2018 and 2019, compared with an overall hotel supply growth of 2.0 percent. 8 Kim Bardoul, “Boutiques can give hoteliers rebound opportunities,” Hotel News Now , April 22, 2020, hotelnewsnow.com. Travelers are drawn to those hotels that put a human face on the institution, that can combine the high standards and consistency of a hotel chain with the personality and privacy of a vacation rental. Major hotel chains have recognized these changing preferences and launched new “soft brands” that serve as a collection of boutique hotels.

Travel companies now have an opportunity to take this personalization a step further, but—in a world where formerly welcoming smiles are behind masks—they will need to find new ways to connect. We have heard hotel staff calling first responders who were quarantining in their hotels to check on them and including notes of encouragement in their bagged lunches, and of airline pilots addressing passengers pre-flight to reassure them and answer any questions about safety.

Getting this right is a balance: mass emails from the CEO can only go so far, and consumers are already reporting fatigue around “we’re all in this together” messaging that is beginning to ring hollow. According to a recent Adobe study, brand marketers are 20 percent more likely than consumers to believe that consumers want to see ads on companies’ COVID-19 responses. 9 Adobe Blog , “Navigating advertising strategy during the COVID storm,” blog entry by Keith Eadie, May 21, 2020, theblog.adobe.com. The bar for authenticity in brand communication and behavior across channels (including in person) must remain high. As such, communication should be focused on what a company is doing for the traveler, rather than delivering superficial platitudes.

Frontline staff can also be powerful messengers and are a great source of insight for improvements or opportunities that a home office will not spot as quickly. Travel workers have been through a lot since the start of the crisis, both professionally and personally, and maintaining an open dialogue around their experiences—and acting upon their feedback—will be vital to ensuring that they feel safe and confident.

To move forward, the industry can actually look backward and take inspiration from a time when airline travel was exciting and new, and travel companies went out of their way to solve for traveler needs rather than just optimizing against the competition.

Listen to customers, and take an agile approach

We have found that companies that surpass their peers in customer-experience design tend to share a set of features 10 Benedict Sheppard, Hugo Sarrazin, Garen Kouyoumjian, and Fabricio Dore, “ The business value of design ,” McKinsey Quarterly , October 2018. : they have agile, cross-functional teams that develop and iterate with end users and deliver seamlessly across touchpoints. Companies that deliver at the highest level across those themes recognize real returns, outperforming their peers by nearly 3:1 in revenue and 1.5:1 in return to shareholders. In this time of great uncertainty and fluid demand, it will be more important than ever to listen to travelers and understand their rapidly evolving needs.

While many travel companies have begun to embrace agile principles in IT and digital, these principles are becoming a useful tool across the entire enterprise as we go into the “next normal.” As travel companies manage their new reality, they will need to be nimble. Cross-functional agile squads that break down traditional silos and collaborate more efficiently can help their companies move quickly to address changing traveler needs across the journey. When launching a new initiative, for example, these teams can conduct quick, one-on-one customer interviews—even in the hotel lobby or boarding area—that can be used to cocreate and pilot solutions at a relatively low expense, using metrics like adoption rate and rapid-fire feedback to course correct in real time. 11 For more on agile principles, see Hugo Sarrazin and Belkis Vasquez-McCall, “ Agile with a capital ‘A’: A guide to the principles and pitfalls of agile development ,” February 2018.

Picture yourself in your favorite vacation spot. Perhaps you’re lying on a beach towel, hiking up a mountain, or skiing down one. Your journey there was different, but the new measures gave you more control and flexibility while ensuring your safety.

The companies that thrive after this crisis will likely be those that work with travelers and employees to cocreate distinctive solutions in a rapid and agile manner, that find new ways to enable choice across the customer experience, and that communicate progress in an authentic and transparent way.

No crystal ball can tell us what the future of travel will be, and we will not find the right solutions to today’s fluid situation overnight. This will take time, patience, and probably many attempts as we learn together. But travel companies need to embrace the challenge to come back better.

Melissa Dalrymple is a partner in McKinsey’s Chicago office, where Ryan Mann is an associate partner. Melinda Peters is a consultant in the New Jersey office and Nathan Seitzman is a partner in the Dallas office.

The authors wish to thank Vik Krishnan, Ellen Scully, Nate Lagacy, Kyle Snyder, Andrew Leon Hanna, Anna Obed, and Luis Diego Cabezas for their contributions to this article.

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New York, NY ( September 5, 2024)  – FCM Consulting, a division of leading travel management company FCM Travel, today released its latest Global Quarterly Trend Report for Q2-2024, which provides an insightful look at forecasts for the year ahead and the key trends shaping the business travel industry. The report is sourced using FCM’s corporate booking from April to June 2024.

According to the report, there continued to be incremental growth for business travel during the second quarter of this year. Global passenger demand in the airline industry remained strong, up 9.1% in June 2024, compared to June 2023. International demand saw the largest growth at +12.3%, while domestic demand was up 4.3%.

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Given the positive travel momentum of late, the data suggests that pricing will also continue to go up across the globe. Economy airfares rose $65 (+15%) and business class fares increased by $209 (+11%) from January to May 2004, versus that same time period in 2019. However, the cost of international economy flights from the U.S. have started to drop, decreasing by an average of 8.8% during Q2-2024, compared to Q2-2023, which is a welcome sign for corporate travelers that often do business overseas. The biggest price drops from the U.S. were seen with flights to France (-20%), the UK (-18%), and Australia (-14%).

It’s encouraging to see the steady upward trajectory for business travel and the way the industry continues to demonstrate consistent and positive growth throughout the year,” said Ashley Gutermuth, Head of FCM Consulting, Americas. “This trend signifies the increased demand we are seeing for in-person meetings and events and the ongoing commitment to foster and build strong, meaningful relationships through business travel.

On the accommodation side, global hotel occupancy rates were expected to be at peak levels during the first half of the year, with rates reaching nearly 70% in July. The hotel occupancy rate for North America stayed constant at 63%, with only a few U.S. cities experiencing a small year-over-year increase, including New York (+4%), Miami (+4%), Chicago (+2%), and Washington D.C. (+2%).

The report also analyzed hotel pricing and the average room rate in North America dropped $31 in Q2-2024, compared to Q2-2023, with only a few major cities seeing an increase in hotel rates. The largest average room rate increases were seen in New York (+31%), Los Angeles (+10%), and Chicago (+5%). In the car rental market, the global average daily rate during H1-2024 was $54, a 26% decrease, when compared to 2023. In the U.S., the average daily rate was $52.

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The organizers and partners of the “Factory of Tourism Products and Services” accelerator will help 10 winners bring their IT projects to the market. In particular, the winner teams will receive support to test marketing strategies, improve business plan, attract investments and launch products.

The “Factory of Tourism Products and Services” is a project of the Moscow Tourism Committee created to support startups and develop new technological solutions for the industry; it is a part of the Moscow Travel Hub program. On the day of reporting, more than 30 finalist teams presented their projects to the experts of the tourism market.

The panel of judges included Dmitry Yakovlev, head of Yandex.Travel service, Eugene Lisovskiy, CEO of Maps.me, Stanislav Andreev, CEO of SberMarketing, Egor Yakovlev, development director of izi.travel platform, and Eugenia Strizhkina, head of the Russpass travel platform.

Among the most notable projects, the jury mentioned the online service for organizing family trips, a bot for planning a trip budget, a city walks service with virtual tour guides, a business process automation system for travel agencies and the software that allows to create applications for hotel guests.

Dmitry Yakovlev , head of Yandex.Travel

Eugene Lisovskiy , CEO of Maps.me

Egor Yakovlev , development director of izi.TRAVEL platform 

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