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Good early morning from Skift. It’s Tuesday, June 21 in New York City City. Here’s what you require to understand about business of travel today.
Tom Lowry
Today’s edition of Skift’s day-to-day podcast looks at Puerto Rico’s tourism momentum, 4th of July “nearcations,” and meetings and occasions challenges in eastern Europe.
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Episode Notes
Puerto Rico has seen a huge tourist boom since the island eased travel restrictions last year, however the U.S. territory faces long-lasting obstacles that could halt that surge, reports Executive Editor Dennis Schaal.
Puerto Rico saw figures such as airport arrivals, non-resident visitor spending and hotel income per available space in 2021 go beyond pre-pandemic metrics. In addition, the island’s average everyday hotel rates during the very first four months of 2022 rose 35 percent from the exact same timeframe in 2015.
But Schaal writes Puerto Rico requires to get rid of pre-pandemic difficulties to continue its tourism surge. The island has experienced a tumultuous last half-dozen years, consisting of duplicated blackouts following Hurricanes Maria and Irma in 2017 and a series of January 2020 earthquakes that ruined its already delicate facilities.
Next, over half of American grownups are planning to travel for this year’s Fourth of July weekend, however a large number of them are looking at trips closer to home, composes Contributor Mary Ann Ha.
A survey by travel industry website The Traveler discovered 55 percent of U.S. consumers have travel plans for the vacation. That’s an eight percentage point dive from last year’s 4th of July. About 52 percent of Americans preparing to travel over the holiday weekend plan to go on road trips, and roughly half of that figure will do so within 100 miles of their homes. Fifty percent of Americans likewise stated rising gas rates would affect their Fourth of July itinerary, which is a four portion point drop from this previous Memorial Day weekend.
Eric Jones, co-founder of the Visitor, stated popular local activities during the 4th of July weekend, such as fireworks programs, are a significant factor more tourists are opting to take trips closer to home.
We finish up today taking a look at how the war in Ukraine is making complex event planning. Factor Paul Cook reports that market executives need to address essential problems when planning events in neighboring countries, such as Poland.
Although Europe is a popular conference location for lots of U.S. organizations, Prepare composes that event planners require to examine what risks a country bordering Ukraine presents for delegates. While event industry executives aspire to help their coworkers in the war-torn country, he thinks occasion planners should focus on taking care of delegates who expect a safe and safe experience.
So event professionals, in Cook’s view, require to interact with authorities in locations they’re thinking about to get a clear image of any possible safety concerns. Prepare pointed out Poland as a nation Americans may wrongly believe the war has infected because of its proximity to Ukraine. But Poland has actually recently emerged as a significant occasions destination, having actually hosted the 2022 UFI European Conference last month.