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Best Western Hotels & Resorts parent BWH Hotel Group signed a 10-year agreement to use meetings technology provider Cvent's transient sourcing platform, the companies announced. Under the agreement, the global hospitality network will use Cvent Transient Solutions, formerly known as Lanyon, to set and promote corporate hotel rates and manage requests for proposals from corporates for its 4,700 properties. BWH Hotel Group is comprised of Best Western, WorldHotels Collection and SureStay Hotel Group. 

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC),  Carnival Corporation and  Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. on Wednesday announced the " 2021 Global Scientific Summit on COVID-19."  Open to the public, this free live virtual forum is slated from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (EDT) on Thursday, April 15, 2021. The scientific summit will bring together top global scientists and health experts to discuss the latest discoveries, evidence-based insights and best practices for living in a world with COVID-19 . This summit will build on a similar forum hosted last year by WTTC and Carnival Corporation. This year's event will continue those discussions and focus on a global and industry-wide understanding of COVID-19's impact on society, including how to safely live in a world with COVID-19. The event is designed for global tourism leaders, WTTC Members, government agencies, destination partners, trade partners, private businesses, media and others. Fact-based discussions wi...

WHY IT RATES: Travelers can feel comfortable staying at a Best Western property.—Donald Wood, Breaking News Senior Writer. Best Western Hotels & Resorts continues to enhance its industry-leading cleaning program, We Care Clean, through its partnership with P&G Professional, the away-from-home division of Procter & Gamble. BWHR announced the addition of Microban 24 Professional to its cleaning protocol. Starting this fall, all 2,300 Best Western-branded locations across the U.S. and Canada will have access to Microban 24 Professional, adding an extra layer of protection for hotel guests. Trending Now "Now more than ever, there is nothing more important than providing a safe and clean home away from home for our guests, and creating a healthy environment for our hotel associates," said Ron Pohl, Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer for BWHR. "We are constantly working to enhance our cleaning p...

Major players in the online travel agent market are Booking. com, Expedia Inc. , Ctrip, TripAdvisor, Trivago, eDreams Odigeo, Despegar, MakeMyTrip, Lastminute, and On the Beach. The global online travel agent market is expected grow from $432. New York, April 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Online Travel Agent Global Market Report 2021: COVID-19 Growth And Change To 2030" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06064498/?utm_source=GNW 14 billion in 2020 to $561.36 billion in 2021 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.9%. The growth is mainly due to the companies resuming their operations and adapting to the new normal while recovering from the COVID-19 impact, which had earlier led to restrictive containment measures involving social distancing, remote working, and the closure of commercial activities that resulted in operational challenges. The market is expected to reach $833.52 billion in 2025 at a CAGR of 10%. The onli...

{{featured_button_text}} Getty Images Elina Geller Protecting your trip with travel insurance is generally a good idea. A comprehensive trip insurance policy safeguards your nonrefundable, prepaid plans (flights, hotel stays and excursions) if the trip is canceled due to a covered reason. It offers reimbursement of medical expenses if you get sick or injured and require care or evacuation. Plus, it provides a daily stipend if your belongings are lost or stolen, among many other needs. However, just because travel insurance is an option doesn't mean you should always buy it. You don't want to purchase coverage that you don't need or already have. Here are some common situations when you can pass on travel insurance and save your hard-earned cash. Skip travel insurance if ... You booked flexible airline tickets Generally, refundable plane tickets are more expensive than nonrefundable tickets. However, due to COVID-19 a...

England's Cotswolds villages — while just a couple of hours' drive away from London — feel like a world apart. This tidy little region of characteristic old towns and gentle green hills is perfect for travelers looking to balance urban Britain with some thatched cuteness. Each of Europe's famously quaint regions has a historical basis for its present-day charm. For the Cotswolds, it's a combination of old sheep wealth, which produced big fancy manor houses, gorgeous churches and stately market towns — all paid for by wool — and isolation from the rest of England both economically and physically. With the rise of cotton and the Industrial Revolution, the wool industry collapsed, people moved to the big cities, and time stood still in the Cotswolds towns. That, combined with sparse highway and train service to the region, turned the Cotswolds into a kind of backwater that missed the modern economic current. Today visitors enjoy a harmonious blend of man and nature: th...

Many of Europe's time-warp houses — sights that take you back to a bygone era — get only a few thoughtful travellers, overshadowed by big-name museums. Some of the ones I highly recommend might make people say "Huh?" but they're the sights that might just make your day. For example, Glasgow's Tenement House offers a chance to drop into a well-preserved, 1930s-era, middle-class residence. The National Trust for Scotland bought this otherwise ordinary row home, located in a residential neighbourhood, because of the peculiar tendencies of its former owner, Agnes Toward (1886-1975). article continues below Trending Stories For five decades, she kept her home essentially unchanged. (She was also a late adopter, making the leap to electricity only in 1960.) The kitchen calendar is still set for 1935, canisters of licorice powder (a laxative) still sit on the bathroom shelf and her piano, once the room's entertainment centre, hasn'...