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Satisfaction with COVID-19 cooperation, but placement availability concerns rise
Findings from WYSE Travel Confederation’s second COVID-19 Travel Business Impact Survey indicate that while top business concerns remain unchanged between March and April, there is increasing uncertainty around placement availability.
Staff cuts, location closures and short survival periods
Findings from WYSE Travel Confederation’s second COVID-19 Travel Business Impact Survey indicate that travel businesses have moved quickly to streamline operations in the face of declining business by cutting staff and closing locations
Q2 worse across the globe, but some source markets expecting better for the whole of 2020
Findings from WYSE Travel Confederation’s second COVID-19 Travel Business Impact Survey indicate that travel and tourism businesses experienced a 60% drop in business in Q1 2020 compared to the same period in 2019.
Looking back in order to see ahead
Findings have indicated that youth travel organisations experienced significant drops in business by the first week of March 2020 as a result of the global COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak.
Business outlook by youth travel sector
Findings from WYSE Travel Confederation’s COVID-19 business impact survey show a mixed picture across various sectors.
Youth travel anticipating 30% decrease in business for 2020
Findings from WYSE Travel Confederation’s COVID-19 business impact survey indicate travel businesses are anticipating a 30% drop in business for this year.
Cloudbeds raises $82 million to develop its platform
After raising $82 million in growth capital Cloudbeds Co-founders share their future vision for the platform.
WYSE workshops – your quick and free source of intel on youth travel at ITB Berlin 2020
These short-format sessions that start at the top of most hours in Hall 4.1/117 at ITB Berlin offer quick and easy insights and know-how on the Gen Z and Millennial travel markets. There’s something for everyone.
Welcome to our new member – YellowSquare
YellowSquare is an innovative hospitality model and experience-led brand offering shared and private accommodation in central Rome, with two more planned openings for 2020.
Welcome to our new member – Expresso Viagens
Expresso Viagens, founded in the 60s, was the first travel agency to operate in Angola and offer local DMC services and business travel.
Our latest member interview – Eduvoyage
Eduvoyage, a sub-brand of ITL World based in the Middle East, focuses on enriching education through travel.
In search of the aging backpacker
We’ve been tracking the quintessential youth traveller since 2002 – the backpacker. In 2017, data from WYSE Travel Confederation’s New Horizons Survey of youth and student traveller indicated the trend of a long and slow decline of the backpacker travel identity.