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Wales to Host the World’s Biggest Culinary Event in 2026

Prestige Events Magazine

The world’s biggest culinary event is coming to Wales in 2026. A Team Wales partnership has secured the Worldchefs Congress & Expo 2026 for the nation. The Celtic Manor Resort, in partnership with the CAW and Welsh Government, successfully hosted Worldchefs meetings in 2017 and 2019. That has to be the legacy of this event.

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TWT: Wobbly Travel Recovery, Flight Delays and Hotel Boom

Smart Meetings

Travel Association has released its biannual forecast for travel through 2026—including both travel spending and volume—which projects that all segments of travel, in spite of rising inflation, will likely surge in the short term due to pent-up demand and consumer savings. Travel Forecast Sees Wobbly Recovery. Travel estimates that $1.05

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Meeting Planners Travel Report: Euro Travel Rebounds, JFK Terminal Tech-Savvy 6 Breaks Ground

Smart Meetings

The report compared year-to-date data compared to 2019 and showed that about one in two reporting destinations have recovered more than 80% of their pre-pandemic foreign arrivals. arrivals exceed 2019 levels. Arrivals from this market to Europe are 25% below 2019 levels in 2022 and are expected to recover 82% of 2019 volumes in 2023.

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5 Biggest Challenges to Impact Events Industry in 2019 & Beyond

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Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is expected that the events industry will generate employment at the rate of 11% from 2016 to 2026. Hence, it is hard to believe the reports like 2019: Global Meetings and Events Forecast, that predicts that the events industry will hit badly by tightened budgets! Let’s find out. Let’s find out.

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Hotel Tax-Rate Changes Likely Coming in Several Big Cities

MeetingsNet

According to this article in The Tennessean , Nashville Convention and Visitors Commission CEO Butch Spyridon said the tax increase could generate about $20 million per year if traveler numbers return to 2019 levels. Recent studies have shown that without any changes, New York won’t return to pre-pandemic visitation levels until 2026.

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The Cost of Biz Travel Is Rising—But So Is Spending

MeetingsNet

For instance, average economy-class tickets in the North America region are lower than global average fares, but still forecasted to rise: 2019: $442 2020: $391 2021: $338 2022: $523 2023: $532 2024: $545 The price of hotel rooms will also continue to climb, and at a somewhat faster rate than airfares. The CWT/GBTA report sees a 4.3

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The time is now: Why there is no better time than now to go on sale for 2021

Event Industry News

There’s a reason why the global events industry was valued at $1,100 billion in 2018 with the expectation of reaching $2,330 billion by 2026 (Allied Market Research, 2019), but its influence goes way beyond a monetary value and into the very fabric of who we are as people. All those above have benefited from little to no competition.

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