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Despite business confidence meaning US employers expect to increase salaries to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, employees’ real-terms salaries will decrease.

Journalists asked questions to the head of the Secretariat of Tourism of Yucatán, Michelle Fridman Hirsch on the last day of Tianguis, the most important event for the Mexican Tourism Industry.

The Meetings Mean Business Coalition (MMBC) and the U.S. Travel Association announced the full integration of the coalition under the U.S. Travel umbrella, strengthening MMBC’s critical mission of uniting the meetings industry with one strong and powerful voice.

The state of Yucatan was once again a major winner at the annual industry-driven Travvy Awards, where it won the “Best Tourism Board – Mexico” accolade for the second year in a row, along with also being named “Best Culinary Destination – Mexico,” a tourism offering the ministry has been pushing to position as part of its promotional campaign.

In recognition of the existential threat posed by the climate emergency, UNWTO, the government of Panama, and NOAH (Network of Ocean Ambassadors Headquarters) will support the creation of a Capital Fund.

UNWTO and Instagram have joined forces to produce a ‘Tourism Recovery Playbook’, and so help destinations and business harness the power of digital and visual storytelling to reach new audiences and return to growth.

This first-ever partnership with Instagram forms part of UNWTO’s wider shift towards harnessing the power of digital innovation to drive the restart of tourism, especially local and sustainable tourism.

As world leaders gather in Glasgow for COP26 to discuss concrete actions to solve the climate crises, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has launched an ambitious and groundbreaking Net Zero Roadmap, to guide the global Travel & Tourism sector in its battle against the climate crisis.

Nowadays, the world has become much more globalised than ever before. This has opened up a world of possibilities for citizens to do amazing things, like work from home or freelance.

It is estimated that there are currently over 35 million expatriate workers in the GCC countries and there could be a sizeable proportion of the white-collar community, that might want to retire in the GCC, even if it was only for a short period of time.

The ‘Glasgow Declaration for Climate Action in Tourism’ was launched at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26.

Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary-General of UNWTO, said that the pandemic has hit tourism harder than any other sector but the climate emergency is a bigger threat than Covid.

Worldwide business travel spending looks set to rise by more than a quarter this year and reach two thirds of pre-pandemic levels by 2022, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC).

Emirates has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tourism Seychelles at Expo 2020. The agreement reaffirms the airline’s commitment to the island-nation and outlines joint initiatives to promote trade and tourism to the country.

Panama’s Minister of Tourism, Ivan Eskildsen and the secretary-general of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Zurab Pololikashvili signed an agreement between the Tourism Authority of Panama (ATP) and the UNWTO to host a Contest for Innovation in Transformational Tourism Products for the Empowerment of Communities.