Travel Massive

🎙️ Travel Massive founder Ian Cumming on Travel Trends Podcast with Dan Christian – tune in to hear the story of how Travel Massive has started and evolved over the years. 👉 Ian shares his thoughts on the ever-evolving relationship between travel and technology, notably the role of AI in content creation and its effects on job opportunities within the field. 🎧 Listen in: https://lnkd.in/g9xwRraS

Have you visited the Travel Massive job board? We've seen a significant increase in the number of travel sector opportunities being posted. Check out this exciting New York based opportunity with VisitBritain and openings with organisations including Brand USA, Experience Kissimmee, AltoVita, Skyscanner and Scott Dunn. Visit Britain: Senior Travel Trade & Aviation Manager USA: https://lnkd.in/eM4Wc8zj

This July we're looking forward to Travel Massive events in: 📍Bangkok 📍Amsterdam 📍Ho Chi Minh City 📍Los Angeles 📍Berlin Register today and be part of something Massive: https://lnkd.in/d6GQ4z7C. Thank you to our community leaders for making these exciting events happen! Ric Gazarian, Anne Somanas, Tobias de Wolff, Natalya Wissink, Megan Ly 🇻🇳, Lauren Goldenberg, Bjorn Troch. #TravelEvents #TravelNetworking #TravelMassive

😊 Find out what happened at our Innovation and Pitch Night in London and check-out some of the great photography from Paul K Porter. A big thank to you Stripe's James Lemon and the Entrepreneurs Collective for partnering with us and to Matthew Gardiner for hosting this event which really did bring out the Travel Massive community in force. https://lnkd.in/ecjnHXGi #TravelMassive #Stripe #Startups #TravelEvents

We could not be more excited about our next London event. ➡️ Hosted by Matthew Gardiner, Director of our London chapter, join us, Stripe and the Entrepreneurs Collective for a travel industry innovation and pitch-night on the 27th June. 🎉 Today, we're delighted to reveal that Rose Wangen-Jones Managing Director, Marketing & Destination at London & Partners will be joining us as one of our judges. 🚀 In addition to the evening's pitch competition, you'll hear from a number of guest speakers who will join Stripe's James Lemon for a fireside chat including Fed Pereira and Georgia Aubrey from Lovetovisit.com. Travel startups pitching on the night include: Gifted Social, NaviSavi Travel App, QRLA, Limitless Travel and EMenu Now. With 100 members already signed-up, tickets to the event are going fast. Get yours today! https://lnkd.in/eY_Zt7W6 #TravelMassive #Startups #TravelNetworking #TravelIndustry

⭐⭐ Travel Massive and Stripe Announce Global Partnership ⭐⭐ I'm pleased to announce that Travel Massive and Stripe have entered into a global partnership, utilising Travel Massive's international community footprint to deliver a series of events to connect Stripe with the travel industry. ✈️ The Travel Massive / Stripe event series will visit London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Barcelona, New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne. 🌎 With more than 80,000 members, representing 10,000 travel companies and a presence in over 100 cities, #TravelMassive is uniquely placed to support Stripe in connecting with the global travel trade. I've thoroughly enjoyed working with and #Stripe in London and I'm delighted that we are now expanding our partnership across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, accelerates revenue growth and productivity with travel organisations from startups to enterprise, through leading online and in-person payment capabilities and products. Working with businesses including Marriott, Hertz, Booking.com and technology platforms such as Navan, Mews and Selfbook, Stripe and its partners aim to accelerate the level of technology transformation and innovation across travel. Collectively, the businesses running on Stripe passed the milestone of $1 trillion in total payment volume in 2023, around 1% of global GDP. Among the many travel companies that use Stripe, Travel Massive is also a Stripe customer, using Stripe to process payments on our events platform. In addition to event management, Travel Massive will work closely with Stripe to provide unique content and exclusive industry insights. Check out these #TravelEvents: 9th April: 🇺🇸 New York https://lnkd.in/e5ZJa3cj - Where speakers will include Kurien Jacob, Amy Tang and Jack Peters 11th April: 🇺🇸 Washington D.C. https://lnkd.in/ektxk2EN. If you're in D.C. for #ElevateTravelConnect2024 - you're definitely going to want to add this to your schedule. 16th April: 🇪🇸 Barcelona https://lnkd.in/ezKE6uzv. Don't miss this if you're attending the annual International Hotel Technology Forum 2024 (IHTF) #IHTF24. 24th April: 🇺🇸 San Francisco https://lnkd.in/e6D9pYzq6D9pYzq Ian Cumming, Tom Buckley, Jared Alster, Kevin O’Shaughnessy, Amanda Campbell, Mark Lenahan, Kristine Dworkin, Benoit Collin, Bjorn Troch Joshua Ryan-Saha. #TravelIndustry #Networking #TravelMarketing

🎉 The Applications for the Social Entrepreneurship Competition in Tourism are now open for 2024 entry – go to https://lnkd.in/ezw3UgXa to apply! Calling all social entrepreneurs in tourism to submit an entry in one of the two tracks: • LAUNCH Track: For great new ideas. • GROWTH Track: For existing projects with MVP. ⏰ Applications are open from April 1 until June 30, 2024 (23:59 CET) All entries must fulfil the following 3 criteria. ✔️ Related to tourism ✔️ Support 3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ✔️ Social or environmental mission at the core of Business Plan 👉 Apply at https://lnkd.in/dwrdiUn A Jury of industry experts will choose 10 finalists to go through an 8-week mentorship program. At the end, there will be an online Pitch Competition where the winners will be voted live on 28 November 2024. Thanks to 2024 Jury Members: Prof. Dr. Claudia C. Broezel (Eberswalde University), Michel Visser (booking.com), Daniel Quintana (UnTours Foundation), Stephanie Henicke (Lufthansa City Center), Laura Kromminga, Dr. Jens Thraenhart (Chameleon Strategies), Nnenna Fakoya-Smith (Nene-Uwa Hub), Ally Hongo (Japan Travel Awards), Neal Bermas (STREETS International), Polyana Ferreira de Oliveira (Viare Travel), Rika Jean-Francois (ITB Berlin), Catherine Germier-Hamel (Millennium Destinations) 👏 Thanks to 2024 Mentors: Ryan Fuller (ITB Berlin), Daniel Rouquette (Villa Finder), Philip Chan (booking.com), Prasanth Kumar (UM6P), Hubertus Stock & Bastian Hiller (Teejit), Emeline Beneult (Sangai), Carole Carlson (Brandeis University) 🙏 The 2024 Competition is powered by a strong network of industry partners: Travel Massive, Booking.com, Amadeus, Lufthansa City Center, Fachhochschule Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, SINA - SINA (Social Innovation Academy), ITB Berlin, Teejit - Driving Tourism Evolution and WIIF. ----- The Social Entrepreneurship Competition in Tourism is the first worldwide competition focusing on social innovation and entrepreneurship in tourism and hospitality. 👉 Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eE7Kd2y5 #socialtourismcompetition #care #create #change #socialinnovation #competitionintourism #tourismcompetition #entrepreneurship Lukas Freitag Maria Stoyanova

🙋♀️ Happy Women's History Month! On March 26, Tuesday, WeTravel is hosting a free virtual event 'Women+ In Travel: Learning from Women+ on the Ground' Hear from four inspiring women+ who are positively impacting travelers, local communities, and the travel industry through their meaningful work on the ground. 🎙️ Meet the Hosts: • Kaitlin Calogera (she/her) – President of A Tour of Her Own • Vaishali Patel (she/her) – Tour Guide, Marketer, Coach and Author • Poonam Rawat-Hahne (she/her) – Founder & CEO of Fernweh Fair Travel • Cindy Reátegui García – Manager at La Patarashca Register for free: https://lnkd.in/d9dNDDkZ #womenshistorymonth #womenintravel #wetravel

⏳ Reminder: Less than two weeks left to apply for ASTA's Entrepreneurship of the Year Contest – applications close March 29, 2024! 🙋♀️ Who can apply? This is a great opportunity for travel advisors, agency owners, travel technology start-ups, travel suppliers, and more! If you have a dream, we want to help you make it a reality. Three lucky finalists will appear onstage at The ASTA Travel Advisor Conference in Dallas on May 29-31, 2024, to participate in a LIVE competition to see who will win the $10,000 cash prize. 🚀 See more & submit your application: https://lnkd.in/dzkgDAbX ASTA - American Society of Travel Advisors #competition #entrepreneurship #startupcompetition #traveladvisors

Thank you to everyone who made last night's Travel Massive event with Stripe such a success and so much fun. It was great to see such broad representation across the travel industry present and wonderful to also have our Dublin chapter leader Kevin O’Shaughnessy join. Thank you in particular to our guest speakers Katherine Fiander OC&C Strategy Consultants and Catt McLeod FIH Elegant Hotel Collection for the insights and thought provoking content and to our host James Lemon. The key themes of the evening were payment innovations, revenue management and the future of personalised pricing. Thanks must also go to Michael McCartan and the team at IDeaS for your support in pulling the content together. Some of the key guidance from Katherine included... Start with strategic segmentation, embed linkages beyond revenue management, be customer centric in how you define the competitor set, leverage channels and products as tools to personalise, embed a total profit mentality and harness the opportunities from AI. It was also interesting to hear Katherine talk about how nuances in customer preferences can drive very different propositional, product and commerical decisions. One of my favourite take aways from Catt's fireside chat was her emphasis on the importance of prioritising true hospitality to strengthen your bottom line. Christian Watts gets the award for the furthest distance travelled in order to attend: 5,350 miles in from San Francisco - And Vicky Smith the award for most Travel Massive events attended. Here are a few photos from the night: #TravelMassive #revenuemanagement #TravelNetworking #Travel #Hospitality