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The future of travel and tourism: safe adventures, real-time guidance, and new frontiers

Trends in the Living Networks

Last week, as part of the ongoing weekly future series on the Morning Show, I spoke about the future of travel and tourism. Some of the things I talked about: * The impact of the ageing developing world population, including the quest for “safe adventures” and the likely continued rise of cruise ships as a way to travel. *

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E3 2021's in-person event has been canceled, according to city tourism board

TechSpot

Resetera user Rösti discovered a special meeting schedule for the Board of Los Angeles Convention and Tourism Development on the city's official website. It lists E3 2021 as a "canceled live event in 2021."

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Virgin Galactic offers a peek inside SpaceShipTwo in VR, making its case in the space tourism race

GeekWire

This comes amid a rivalry with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and fellow billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX for shares of a space tourism market that’s expected to grow to $3 billion annually by 2030. Let’s start with the seats, which are arranged in threes on each side of a middle aisle.

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Radian Aerospace comes out of stealth and raises $27.5M for orbital space plane development

GeekWire

For the past few years, Radian has been working on rocket engine development at its Renton headquarters and at a testing facility near Bremerton, Wash. The design for Radian’s space plane was inspired by Boeing’s 1970s-era concept for a Reusable Aerodynamic Space Vehicle , or RASP.

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Airbnb launches ‘City Portal’ in Seattle and beyond to help cities gain insight into listings, enforce laws

GeekWire

The company has launched City Portal as a resource for governments and tourism organizations, it said Wednesday. Tourism partners can also gain more insight into where guests are coming from. Compliance tools to help governments develop and manage fair short-term rental policies and regulations. and Buffalo, N.Y.,

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Alternative trails, alerts and more: Washington state recreation app rolling out this spring

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A new Washington state app for recreation opportunities and trails will debut this spring, the state’s tourism organization announced Wednesday. State of Washington Tourism is developing the app in partnership with Seattle-based company Dharma Maps and TREAD (Trails, Recreation, Advocacy, and Development) , a Wenatchee, Wash.-based

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Defeat of Bathroom Bill Saved $7.4 Billion Tourism Economy, Says VisitDallas CEO

Future of CIO

Jones predicted that if the bathroom bill had passed, it would have crippled the Texas tourism economy. Last year, VisitDallas staff participated in 418 hours of diversity and inclusion training and development. Billion Tourism Economy, Says VisitDallas CEO appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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