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• A new survey shows resurgent interest in travel across Europe this summer.
• COVID-19 is no longer the primary worry for travellers, with inflation and family/personal concerns having taken over.
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The Northern Hemisphere summer holiday season is in full swing and as pandemic-related travel restrictions are lifted a new survey shows just how many Europeans are planning to take advantage.

Ipsos, in partnership with Europ Assistance, spoke to 15,000 people across 15 countries and found that 71% of Europeans plan to travel this summer - a 14 percentage point increase on last year.

A rebound following the COVID-19 pandemic

Most of those surveyed (72%) are 'really excited' or 'happy to' travel and travel habits have continued to return to some pre-COVID-19 norms. Foreign travel, city breaks, and air travel have all gained popularity this year after pandemic-induced slumps.

Indeed, COVID-19 is no longer the primary concern for travellers this year, inflation and personal/family concerns have overtaken it.

The survey shows that the proportion of holidaymakers in Europe this year is even higher than before the pandemic.

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The rebound in travel numbers serves to remind us of the vital importance of the tourism industry to economies around the world, but also its vulnerability and the subsequent impact on millions of livelihoods.

The World Economic Forum's latest Travel and Tourism Development Index looks at how to build a sustainable and resilient travel and tourism (T&T) sector .

"The T&T sector is a major driver of economic development, global connectivity and the livelihood of some of the populations and businesses most vulnerable to, and hardest hit by, the pandemic," explain the report's authors.

"Supporting T&T development and recovery – which in turn will help the global recovery, build resilience and support all of those who depend on the sector for work – will be critical."

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The Safety in Aviation Forum for Europe (SAFE 360˚) conference strives to break down silos by examining the key safety issues in Europe from a cross-domain perspective. The conference includes the full spectrum of aviation stakeholders taken from up and down the technical and management chain.

The conference follows the ‘ Chatham House Rules ‘, which allows its participants to talk freely without judgement. Attendees are asked not to identify and take information out of the conference without the source’s permission.

SAFE 360° 2024 will be an in-person event and will be held in Cologne from 23 to 24 September 2024 at the Marriott Hotel.

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SAFE 360° 2024 will focus on the key safety challenges from a 360° perspective. It is also the unique conference in Europe to showcase the link between the wider aviation safety communities and the Data4Safety big-data-driven safety intelligence.

SAFE 360˚ 2024 is structured as follows:

• Day 1 : High-level panels
• Day 2 : 360° panels
• Participate in the strategic panel on the EU safety landscape and the high-level panels on ‘Coping with Workforce Challenges and Integrated Risk Management and Resilience’.
• ‘Management of Repetitive Defects’;
• ‘Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Outages and Alterations’;
• ‘Runway Safety’; and
• ‘ The Future of Occurrence Reporting and Safety Data’.
• ‘The Ground Handling Regulation’;
• ‘Wrong Altimeter Setting’;
• ‘Making Flight Data Monitoring a Stronger Enabler of Operations’; and
• ‘Interference by Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) / Reporting of Events by Operators’.
• Learn more about the latest developments of Data4Safety — The European data analysis and sharing programme launched in 2017 as a joint initiative of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the European Commission (DG MOVE), and 14 voluntary European aviation safety partners (the ‘D4S Founding Members’).

SAFE 360˚ 2024 is only open to recognised aviation professionals / safety partners.

Priority will be given to fully-engaged aviation professionals from organisations working in the field of commercial fixed-wing operations and coming from regulators, manufacturers, flight crew, air traffic management (ATM) / air navigation service providers (ANSPs), engineers, airports, and ground handling.

The SAFE 360° 2024 Organising Committee will screen all registration requests and determine their eligibility before confirming the registration.

SAFE 360° 2024 is an open exchange of ideas where speakers and participants shall abide by ‘Just Culture’ principles.

It is therefore required that all the participants and speakers commit themselves to respecting the following terms of the Charter of Conduct governing every interaction that will take place during the conference:

• all information is property of the presenting organisation;
• the information shared will by no means be used for any commercial, competitive, or punitive purpose;
• the information presented to the participants will not be shared with external parties without the clear and written consent of the owner.

To register, fill in the registration form below. Please select the number of tickets you would like to obtain. A conference fee of €360 per person applies.

Note for presenters: please contact SAFE [at] easa.europa.eu ( SAFE[at]easa[dot]europa[dot]eu ) before registering.

Registration is only available online — Deadline for registration is 13 September 2024.

Cancellations shall be made in writing until two weeks before the start of the conference to safe [at] easa.europa.eu ( SAFE[at]easa[dot]europa[dot]eu ) . A 25 % non-refundable administrative fee per cancelled registration will incur. Refunds will be processed after the event.

Delegates who request a cancellation 13 days or less before the start of the conference, or delegates who fail to attend the event without prior notice, are liable for the full attendance fee.

The attendance fee will not be pro-rated, should delegates not attend the entire event.

• It is not allowed to record (audio or video) or take photographs of presentations.
• Anyone not following the terms for participation to SAFE 360° 2024 may be asked to leave the event.

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Please select the number of tickets you would like to obtain , click ‘next’ and follow the steps in the online form below (in case the form is not displayed correctly, please try again using another browser (e.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Safari) :

For queries before the conference, please contact the SAFE 360° 2024 Organising Committee at SAFE [at] easa.europa.eu ( SAFE[at]easa[dot]europa[dot]eu ) .

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Hotel accommodation and travel expenses are not included in the registration fee. Participants are responsible for their hotel accommodation and their travel arrangements. EASA will not cover these costs.

Preferential rates have been negotiated for SAFE 360° 2024 participants with the Marriott Hotel, where the conference is held. To make a reservation, please visit their booking platform .

• Last day for booking: 9 August 2024
• Special group rate: €175 per night

Alternatively, participants to SAFE 360° 2024 are free to arrange their own accommodation as they please.

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