Mega events - large scale activations of sports, cultural, religious or other gatherings of people from across the globe at a single location at a set point in time - are massive drivers of Travel & Tourism (T&T) sector growth.Major events are a powerful means of...

A new year is unfolding. Thankfully.2009 is officially closed.A clean slate allowing us all to reflect, re-focus, re-plan, re-dream.Still, while the recession of 2009 may also now be defined, statistically, as over, allowing the global economy to exhale deeply and...

In just a few hours timezones around the world will be ringing in the new year.2009 will be closed.A busy year, a noisy noisy year,A year with so much of the world on the move.Soon it will all be hushed...Silence. Stillness. A global holding-of-breath.And then, in the...

A mere matter of days ago the world was looking forward to a global exhale. Word was spreading in speed and volume that the worst of 2009's global economic crisis may, just may, be over. The time had come to shift into cautious, reconstruction mode of our wounded...

Over the past year, with the global economic downturn putting significant pressure on the ability for people to travel for both work and play, the global Travel & Tourism industry has seen a severe falling off in critical metrics: arrivals, revenues, investment,...

Green shoots.These two little words have become a wordwide symbol of hopeful recovery of the global economic crisis which has held markets and minds in a tight grip since the end of 2008. The expression, the image, the sentiment, now appears in news reports and...

The concept of Responsible Tourism has, rightly, taken a front row seat in the strategies, policies and philosophies of nations seeking to grow and develop their tourism economies. Building a tourism destination responsibly, actively conscious of the impact which the...

As recently as 5 weeks ago a world already gripped by the economic downturn was suddenly put into a new state of panic. An illness never heard of before was hitting the global headlines, generating fears of a global pandemic. Swine flu.As numbers of reported cases...

One of the most visible, powerful and unavoidable signs of a change in our times, in the world as we know it, is language. Across the globe, across cultures and borders, the evolving formulation, form and expression of words has been a natural occurrence with the...