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Berlin/Oberhausen. The tour operator industry is flourishing and changing. Country destinations are becoming more important, for example. Among the corporate planners, further education is on the rise, and very little has changed concerning the most event-prone industries and preferred convention metropolises. A current study reveals trends.

Geneva. børding messe, organizers of "Meetingplace Germany, have formed a joint venture with the French exhibition specialists BY Connect. Both host a new trade show for events and business travel on 14 October in Geneva.

Vienna. The Austrian holiday world 2025 will be "green". Nevertheless, the guest still wants to be continually online while in the "off" of nature. The guests are requiring even more individual service, the policy on prices will change … Surveys and findings from the working groups that portray the result of the hotel industry's situation in eleven years were presented within the scope of the Austrian Hotelier Assocation's annual congress in Wels last week.

Berlin/Augsburg. ITB Berlin is drawing near and perhaps a few companies are in search of one more approach point in Hotel Hall 9. Two co-exhibitor spaces are once again available within the "World of Hospitality" joint stand initiated by hospitalityInside.

Wels. When the Germans do better, Austria's tourism is worsened. With this bold theory and calculating that each additional million euros in public funds for the tourism effects 23,040 nights, the Director of the Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies astonished those at this year's OEHV Congress that was held from Monday to Wednesday in Wels near Linz in Upper Austria. The Austrian Tourism Office doubted such forecasts and the OEHV demanded an increased budget for the marketing organisation. Finally, the Austrian government has now accepted tourism as a future industry.

Frankfurt. It is also expected for 2014 that 72 percent of the travel budgets will solidly remain and that 18 percent of the companies will even raise budgets. These are the results of a study. This forecast is particularly supported by the increasing economic optimism in Europe.

Berlin. Next year, the ITB Berlin Convention will kick off with an event featuring high-ranking participants on the topical subject of omni-channel marketing .Among those taking part in the new "ITB Summit" will be Facebook’s Head of Travel Lee McCabe, who will talk about the prospects for social media securing new customers. Most topics of the other congress days are confirmed now, also for the 9th "ITB Hospitality Day".

Berlin. After unparalleled marathon negotiations and many disputes, the Bundesvereinigung der Musikveranstalter and GEMA agreed on a stipulation for the four controversial event fees. The new fees become effective on January 1, 2014.

Frankfurt am Main. 87% of the German tour operators and travel mediators have homosexual customers. Germany lies in first with this in comparison to Great Britain, Spain, Italy and France.

Klagenfurt. As Austria's "southern" lake district has been struggling with negative summer business, private hotel operators have invested in destinations located at higher elevations. Here, skiing ensures creation of value over the course of two seasons. In addition to the completely new Alpenhotel Pacheiner in the Gerlitzen ski resort, and the Hochschober flagship at Turracher Hoehe, Hotel Wulfenia is to start the next skyrocketing development at Nassfeld: Wulfenia is supported by Russian capital. The other family hotels score with creativity.