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19 new members added to our NTA family, including seven tour operators. Simply click "read more" to browse the complete list of April's new members, and say hello to your new association partners.
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When you bring your group to the newest Planet Hollywood at Disney Springs, everyone experiences a floor-to-ceiling spectacular like they've never seen before. Semi-private and full buyouts are available for tour groups and corporate meetings of 15 to 1,100. See for yourself at the NTA Meet-up in Orlando, May 19, 8:30–10:45 a.m., when members and area tour professionals will come together to network and hear the latest on NTA.
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Tour operators, here's your chance! Discover central Iowa's world-class attractions and culinary hot spots on the NTA Des Moines Product Development Trip, Sept. 27–30. You'll explore Iowa's hidden gems for a memorable experience perfectly packaged for your group—and you'll make some new friends along the way. Click "read more" to learn more and register.
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Butterflies are taking flight at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County! Get up close to hundreds of beautiful free-flying butterflies all around you in our seasonal Butterfly Pavilion. Your group can add this experience onto any visit now until September 4.
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NTA's Certified Tour Professional program is customized to meet your specific needs. You're doing more than taking a few courses—you're learning from a program that was developed by and for packaged travel professionals. Start your path to being a CTP today!
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NTA's LinkedIn page keeps our members and followers in the know with industry trends, research and professional development opportunities. Simply search "National Tour Association" or click "read more" to start following us today.
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A visit to Reunion Tower isn’t just about seeing what’s below from hundreds of feet in the air—it’s about expanding your horizons.
Bring your group to experience Dallas at 470 feet!
To schedule, call Michelle Taylor at 214-712-7051 or MTaylor@reuniontower.com.
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Destination Marketing Association International and NTA have finalized a strategic partnership that focuses on creating educational opportunities and benefits that are valuable to members of both organizations.
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The Washington Post
With a subject sacred and central to diverse faiths, the Museum of the Bible aims to appeal to religions of all kinds, and to those who don’t believe in any.
Washington's newest museum — set to open Nov. 17 in a 430,000-square-foot building a few blocks south of the Mall — will be chock-full of artifacts and exhibitions focused on the Bible's long history and social impact. It will also sport high-tech activities and displays that will connect the ancient text to contemporary life in fun and engaging ways.
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A full-service stop for travelers en route to world-famous southwest destinations. The family-owned 10,000 square-foot complex includes: Both fast food and casual sit-down dining options. Bus parking and large comfortable restrooms. Compelling, storewide interpretive exhibits about the Navajo people and much more...
Click here to learn more!
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Hospitality Net
We only have to see photos of people praying in Mecca, visiting the Vatican, washing in the Ganges, or attending a religious festival at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to know that both religion and religious pilgrimages play a major role in tourism. Religious tourism even bleeds into the world of "secular faith" as proven by the millions of people each year who make a "pilgrimage" to places such as Washington, D.C., or treat their favorite football team almost as if it were a religious icon.
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The Times of India
With the renewed interest in developing religious tourism hubs in the state, the UP tourism department has planned to develop Bateshwar, located 80 km from Agra, under the Swadesh Darshan scheme of the Central government. Bateshwar is famous for its 101 Shiva temples built on the bank of river Yamuna, for being a major Jain pilgrimage and for being the ancestral town of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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Calgary Sun
The idea is to fall in love with a tourist destination.
Local tourism boosters are hoping a gathering of hundreds of people seeking out the ultimate travel spot through mass speed-dating will find Calgary plenty of foreign suitors.
The matchmakers descend on the BMO Centre on Stampede Park May 9-12 for Rendez-vous Canada, a hospitality industry trade show held annually in a different Canadian city.
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Tourism Cares
Harness the brainpower of travel with Tourism Cares during their webinar covering The Wonders and Pitfalls of Pro Bono Volunteering today at 2 p.m. ET. They'll explore how pro-bono volunteering serves your employees, company and partners, and share best practices and ideas to set the stage for successful collaboration. Don’t miss out on this conversation.
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The Associated Press via Skift
At a committee hearing, members of the U.S. Congress implored U.S. airlines to focus on customer service, telling several airline executives, including United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz, that they and their constituents no longer will tolerate policies that do not prioritize passenger needs.
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U.S. Travel Association
Established by a congressional resolution in 1983, National Travel & Tourism Week (May 7-13) serves to champion the power of our industry. The travel community marks the event in a number of creative ways, from staging local rallies and conducting media outreach to securing proclamations and resolutions from local governments. This year's theme is the Faces of Travel—how will you celebrate?
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Department of Interior
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced the first-ever formal public comment period for members of the public to officially weigh in on monument designations under the Antiquities Act of 1906 and released a list of monuments under review under the President’s Executive Order 13792.
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Newsweek
The U.S. State Department has warned Americans traveling in Europe of the risk of attacks by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda
The State Department said in a statement that U.S citizens should be aware that "terrorist sympathizers or self-radicalised extremists" could carry out attacks with little or no warning.
"Widely-reported incidents in France, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom demonstrate that [ISIS, Al-Qaeda] and their affiliates have the ability to plan and execute terrorist attacks in Europe," the statement read.
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The New York Times
The European Commission said on Tuesday that it would not start requiring Americans to obtain visas for travel to the European Union, at least for now.
Right now, United States citizens generally do not need visas to enter any of the union's 28 member nations, but citizens of five of those nations — Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania — need visas to travel to the United States.
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Skift
Southeast Asia's tourism industry is looking to Europe's models of visa-free travel and Open Skies to boost their own travel and tourism prospects despite isolationist rhetoric and policies playing out elsewhere.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a 10-member political and economic alliance for a population of 645.8 million people, which is larger than the European Union, wants a single visa policy for the region and improved Open Skies agreements with airlines.
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The Irish Times
Is Brexit already having an impact on tourism? CSO figures for January-March 2017 found British visitor numbers were down 6.5 per cent on the same period last year. “The drop in the value of sterling has made holidays and short breaks here more expensive for British visitors,” says Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, the state agency charged with drumming up overseas interest in Ireland as a holiday destination.
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New Zealand Tourism
The tourism industry remains adamant a hotel and motel levy isn't the way to fund Auckland Council's tourism body.
Mayor Phil Goff wants to introduce a targeted rate on accommodation providers to fund the Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development agency. He says hotels and motels hike their prices during major events like last month's World Masters Games, and should contribute to the agency which sponsors them.
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Cuba Journal
There is no other major destination in the world with visibility on 500 percent growth in travel and tourism other than Cuba. A recent IMF working paper, "Revisiting the Potential Impact to the Rest of the Caribbean from Opening U.S.-Cuba Tourism," suggest, "the apprehension of the Caribbean tourism industry towards a change in U.S. travel policy to Cuba is understandable, but likely unwarranted.
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The Boston Globe
How much vacation time do millennials take each year? What stresses them most about traveling, and what motivates them to travel? How do they want to spend their vacation time?
These are some of the topics addressed in a first-of-its-kind study recently conducted by the American Society of Travel Agents.
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The Associated Press via Skift
Gathered with friends around a kitchen table six decades ago, Mildred Bennett started the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation with eight others in Red Cloud, the town that serves as an important backdrop to the author's work.
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BBC News
Visiting a graveyard for enjoyment is not everyone's cup of tea. But tombstone tourists - or "taphophiles" - are increasingly to be found wandering through cemeteries, examining headstones, and generally enjoying the sombre atmosphere.
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Travel Weekly
As the popularity of beer, especially locally brewed craft beer, has ballooned over the past decade, brewery-driven travel has followed suit. Destinations, suppliers and breweries are increasingly realizing the economic potential that the beer tourism market represents and are consequently developing more products — everything from well-curated beer trails to beer-centric culinary experiences to brewery-backed hotels — to cater to the burgeoning demand for "beercations."
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Social Media Examiner
Do you share images in your social media marketing? Wondering if you're violating copyright laws? With a bit of information, you can learn to protect yourself and your business from a copyright infringement lawsuit. In this article, you'll discover five tips to help you use images correctly (and legally) on social media.
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Forbes
Believe it or not, memes have been around much longer than Instagram.
An anthropological concept coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, memes originally represented the idea of "going viral" within a biological system or society.
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Facts at your digital fingertips
NTA's 2017 Media Kit has all the facts about advertising with NTA: audience, markets, circulation, prices, editorial calendar and specs. Promote your organization with our publications: Courier, NTA directories, trip planners (student, group and faith), Travel Market Guides and NTA Online. Get started today by viewing the 2017 Media Kit.
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By Lonny Alfred
Our inboxes are constantly filled with ways to adjust digital marketing tactics to meet the demands of millennials and Generation Zers, but there's one generation with just as strong spending power that's often left out of the mix: Baby boomers. But how you approach boomers in the digital arena isn't a matter of pushing existing marketing campaigns onto their screens.
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Associations Now
A new report from the Content Marketing Institute and ion interactive finds that large companies in particular are making interactive content a stronger part of their marketing mix.
Getting people hooked into your offerings can often be a challenge — in part because you need to create engagement, then keep it.
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