If you’re a tourism board, destination marketing organisation (DMO) or tourism industry group, FAM & press trips are a crucial part of your strategy – they’re a great way to promote your destination, forge strong relationships with key agents, journalists and partners, and generate business for your industry. In 2018, it’s no longer enough to […]
Tour operating is a complicated business at the best of times, but MICE travel (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Events) takes it to a whole new level of complexity. With big – often huge – groups [arriving on different flights at different times], multiple hotels & venues, activities, last-minute changes, and hundreds of enquiries, requests and complaints […]
It’s entirely possible that the travel management solution you choose will power your business for the next 5, 10 maybe even 20 years. With that in mind, it’s extremely important to perform you due diligence as a buyer and make the right decision. Ultimately, every travel provider wants a system that can help them to […]
Open Destinations will be amongst the exhibitors at the 2018 World Travel Market (WTM) London between 5-7 November. The event, which will take place over 3 days at the Excel Centre brings together almost 5,000 exhibiting destinations, technology and private sector companies and 51,000 travel professionals, key industry buyers, journalists, digital influencers, students and tourism Ministers. […]
Update: Open Destinations’ SVP Sales & Marketing Marcos Isaac joins ITB Asia ‘Bleisure Panel’ – More Info The Open Destinations team will be in attendance at Marina Bay Sands for the ITB Asia 2018 conference taking place between 17-19 October. We’ll be running live Travel Studio, Travel Builder and Tineri App demonstrations from our […]
Back office processes can easily escalate to the point that they become cumbersome, resource hungry and costly. Whilst an increasing back office workload often means more business coming in, travel companies should not be in a position where they can’t support their own growth. But when this does happen, however positive the circumstances, it’s imperative […]
By 2025 Millennials and younger generations will account for 75% of all consumers and travellers (Source: Airbnb). Numbering 79 million, Milllenials are already the biggest generation in history and they’re already spending on travel too. While saving for on a house or paying debts was the priority for previous generations, those born since 1994 rank […]
London, 4 June 2018 – Travel technology specialists Open Destinations have today unveiled new functionality for Destination Management Companies (DMC) within their award-winning mobile itinerary app, Tineri. The app now enables DMCs, inbound tour operators and other B2B travel providers to supply their travel agent clients with mobile itineraries. Acquired by Open Destinations in early […]
When we’re talking to travel companies about Tineri, the most common question we get asked is “How do I get my content on there?” We know that tour operating is pretty labour-intensive, and that your staff can’t afford to spend any more time on a booking than necessary – so that’s why we’ve developed numerous […]
Open Destinations’ SVP Sales & Marketing Marcos Isaac , will join a trio of travel technology experts at the event on Tuesday June 12th 2018 at the Barbican Centre, London. The Digital City Visitor Conference will be hosted by the European Tourism Association (ETOA) as part of City Fair 2018. The one day event ‘will […]
After an extremely busy first quarter, our calendar for the rest of the year is filling up fast. At present we can confirm our attendance at the following events in 2018:
With around 95% of travellers taking a smart device of some kind with them when they travel, the age of paper itineraries is coming to an end, and going mobile makes it a lot easier for tour operators to create compelling, aesthetically impressive itineraries, maintain version control, easily issue changes, communicate effectively, and generally offer […]
