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2009 Looms Large

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Travel costs, Travel, Service, Room block, Networking, Meetings, Contracts, Attrition on Dec 11, 2008

  2009 looks like it will be an 'interesting'* year for all of us in the meetings/hospitality industry.

Hotel owners and management companies are laying people which means that  service may suffer.

Budgets have been cut which means many will not be traveling and especially not traveling to meetings. Those who will travel will look for (and most likely find) bargains for air fares and hotel rooms.

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9.11.01. Katrina. Rita. Ike. Bangkok. Mumbai. You.

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Travel Arrangements, Travel, Tourist attractions, Tourism, Sales Marketing, Safety, Risk Management, Onsite management, News, New Orleans, Katrina Rita Ike, Julia Rutherford Silvers, Jim Fausel, Incentive Travel, Hotel, Events, Education, Economy, Destination, Dave Wiggins, Conventions, Conferences, CATourism Safety Security Conference, Bangkok Thailand, AZ Tourism Safety Security Conference on Dec 06, 2008

As many as 100K tourists are stranded in Thailand, unable to depart.  Airline schedules around the world have been disrupted.  Thailand is both a major (traditional) tourist and incentive destination and is a 'hot spot' for medical tourism - which means that people who took time off to go or those en route also may not be able to get there.  

Airines cut flights into and out of Mumbai, with

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What would New York City be without theatre?

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Travel, Tourist attractions, Tourism, New York Times, New York City, Economy on Nov 18, 2008

Each of us is concerned about how the economy is impacting us personally.  I know we are - after our car was hit and declared (by insurance ) a total loss (with neither of us injured) we are buying a car that was not even remotely budgeted.

This article in today's New York Times shows the impact this economic crisis has as the dots are connected.  Just follow the trail of the money or lack

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Making the most of a bad situation

Posted by: JoanEisenstodt in Travel, Schmoozing, Relationships, Networking, Negotiate, Navy, Airlines on Nov 08, 2008

2:30 a.m. EST and I'm up and getting ready for a 3:45 a.m. p/u to DCA for my flights today, the first of which is at 6 a.m.

It's an international flight; the airline says arrive 2 hours ahead so I do...

...to find the counter not staffed.

We called the airline and they said that the counter opened at 4:45.  I suggested they might change that since a competing airline was already open and checking

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