Don’t miss our travel trends webinar on 22 April

WYSE-webinars-logo-smallIf you would like to know more about the latest travel trends – including how Asian travellers are impacting on the travel industry and the major global hot-spots in the coming years – join the second webinar in our new series:

Date: Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Time: 17:00 – 18:00 CET
Topic: Market Research
Title: Travel Trends 2014

Professor Greg Richards will be leading the hour-long session, which will focus on:

  • The relevance of the Asian traveller the travel industry
  • Significant changes to the traditional aspirations and reasons for travelling
  • Changes in the distances young people are travelling
  • Analysis of the effect of special offers on youth travellers
  • Which new destinations are rapidly being developed in response to growing demand?
  • What are the major global hot-spots in the coming years?
  • Which regions are growing resiliently in spite of global challenges?

Click here to register now!

Free for members

Our webinars are free for members of WYSE Travel Confederation and its sector associations, and €75 per session per person or €250 per organisation for non-members for the entire 2014 series. Limited space is available so pre-bookings are essential. We’ll send you full details of how to take part in the webinars once you have registered.

Presenter

Greg Richards is Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Tilburg and Professor of Events at Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.

Greg RichardsHe has worked on projects for the UNWTO, the OECD, numerous national governments, national tourism organisations and municipalities, and he has extensive experience in tourism research and education, with previous posts at London Metropolitan University (UK), Universitat Roviria I Virgili, Tarragona (Spain) and the University of the West of England (Bristol, UK).

Professor Richards has been involved with the youth travel research programme of WYSE Travel Confederation since 2000. He has conducted numerous studies of youth travel, accommodation, work experience and the cultural effects of travel experiences. He has published a range of major reports and publications on youth travel and has spoken widely at global conferences on the subject.

Upcoming webinars

We have a full range of webinars taking place over 2014 covering a variety of topics and issues across the youth and student travel industry – click here for the full programme and to download our first webinar: Show, don’t tell: Social media marketing and selling your programmes.