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In the sixth video in our #Branding & #Storytellin

During last week's @phocuswrightinc⁠ virtual con

During last week's @phocuswrightinc⁠
virtual conference, "Peter Kern, who became CEO of Expedia Group as the crisis raged in April, said the sharp travel slowdown gave the booking giant time to step back and rebuild its core foundation."⁠
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From 'Travel Companies, Big and Small, Find Opportunity in Crisis' - @travelweeklyus. Read at the link in our bio. ⁠
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Photo by @alexazabache⁠

“As I rode, I started seeing Hope everywhere –

“As I rode, I started seeing Hope everywhere – on noticeboards, road names, car number plates. Hope is everywhere, for those who care to look. It gave the whole journey a better outlook."⁠
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Our friends at @active_england_tours set out on a #cycling tour to find Hope everywhere they could across the whole of #Britain, while also supporting @the_bikeproject. Follow along in a fantastic new post. Read it at the link in our bio.

Today's #BannikinBeats selection is Chilean folk s

Today's #BannikinBeats selection is Chilean folk singer Victor Jara's eponymously-titled first LP. ⁠
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One of the main contributors to the Nueva Canciòn (New Song) movement of the 1970s, Jara's music and performances were significant in helping Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity Party ascend to the presidency in Chile in 1970. ⁠
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Through his support of the hardworking Chilean people from whom he came, Jara was a cultural hero in the eyes of the people. ⁠
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When Allende's time as Chile's president was cut short as General Pinochet orchestrated a coup, Jara was among the tens of thousands rounded up and murdered. They became known as the desaparecidos, or the disappeared. ⁠
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Listen at the link in our bio. ⁠
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Source: 'You Can't Have a Revolution Without Songs' - Antonio D'Ambrosio

In one #travel survey, 72 per cent of respondents

In one #travel survey, 72 per cent of respondents said they were ready to travel and 92 per cent said that the election made them want to travel.⁠
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"Travel experts say the main challenge for the new administration will be to find the right balance between testing and quarantine rules, along with vaccine development and distribution." - @hbaskas writes for @nbcnews⁠
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Link in bio.

This week #BannikinBooks returns with Mark Adams’s ‘Meet Me In Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City’

It’s a globe-circling travelogue that delves into questions about what keeps us searching and exploring, even for the things that might not exist.

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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Kazakhstan's embr

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Kazakhstan's embracing of Borat to promote tourism leads off our "What Made Us Smile" section of our Covid-19 newsletter update this month. In addition to sharing media editorials, recent studies and expert insights examining the pandemic's impact on the industry, we've also added two new sections, one highlighting traveller-targeted media content beginning to emerge (this style of coverage took a long hiatus in the summer) and one.... just for fun! Chenqui! Link in bio.

Photo credit: @visitalmatykz

In our third Bannikin Branding & Storytelling vide

From the @nytimes: "...while visitor numbers are l

From the @nytimes: "...while visitor numbers are low, Iceland is positioning itself for a major tourism rebound after the pandemic. The government is investing more than $12 million in tourism infrastructure, while improving roads and harbors across the country. To keep the tourism industry afloat in the short term, the government is also investing more than $9 million in a program that distributes free travel vouchers to Icelandic citizens and residents. A marketing campaign targeting domestic tourists was rolled out in the late spring; an international version will be unveiled as soon as travel restrictions are lifted. The government hopes that when people go to book their first post-pandemic flights overseas, Iceland will be at the top of their list." - @paigemcclanahan⁠
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Read the full article at the link in bio. ⁠
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Photo credit: @svanurgabriele⁠

Wayne Smith's 1985 hit "Under Mi Sleng Teng" - pro

Wayne Smith's 1985 hit "Under Mi Sleng Teng" - produced by King Jammy on a Casio MT-40 synthesizer - is most often cited as the song that initiated the digital era of reggae and the birth of ragga music. ⁠
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Ragga is a subgenre of dancehall that originated in Jamaica during the 1980s, at the same time that electronic dance music was finding new audiences around the world. ⁠
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Ragga's influence has since blown up around the world, creating new subgenres like bhangragga, a fusion of ragga and the Punjabi bhangra music style. Listen at the link in our bio. #BannikinBeats

Next up in our Branding & Storytelling video serie

This Tuesday, Oct. 27, Let’s Get Uncomfortable:

This Tuesday, Oct. 27, Let’s Get Uncomfortable: Confronting Anti-Black Racism in Travel & Tourism returns for part 3 of the discussion series.

So far, Let's Get Uncomfortable discussions have addressed the realities of anti-Black racism in travel & tourism, and shared steps that travel professionals and organizations can take to prioritize diversity, inclusion and anti-racist practice.⁠
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Next up, LGU's Shalene Dudley, founder of Latitude Concierge Travels, sits down with Mpuuga Rwabutara, senior account executive at Flight Centre Travel Group and the organization's newly appointed Diversity Ambassador.⁠
Dudley and Rwabutara will discuss this new role at Flight Centre Travel Group & its significance; the work Rwabutara is doing as a result; and what other travel professionals & organizations can learn and implement in their own work.⁠

The conversation will be one-hour, followed by a 30 minute Q&A session, whereby participants will have the chance to ask Dudley and Rwabutara questions.⁠
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Register at link in bio.

Don't miss the first in our Branding & Storytellin

We’ve signed on to the Guiding Principles put fo

We’ve signed on to the Guiding Principles put forth by the newly formed Future of Tourism Coalition! These transformative principles outline a bold vision for the future of tourism - one that retains the integrity of destinations, promotes inclusivity and equality, maximizes positive impacts for communities and environments and fosters collaborative change. As a signatory, we commit to align our recovery strategies with these principles and build a better future for all. Learn more at the link in our bio. #FutureofTourism

The Indigenous Tourism Forum of the Americas is ne

The Indigenous Tourism Forum of the Americas is next week! Link in bio to register. (Any media interested, please DM us.)

Be sure not to miss our September media and commun

Be sure not to miss our September media and communications newsletter, designed to help you track travel- and coronavirus-related developments that continue to affect our industry at large.

Your brand is probably the very last thing you wan

"For many rural communities, tourism means opportu

"For many rural communities, tourism means opportunity. It provides jobs and economic empowerment, including for women and youth. Tourism gives rural communities the ability to protect and promote their natural surroundings, as well as their culture and heritage. In doing so, it allows tourists to enjoy unique experiences. In 2020, World Tourism Day celebrates the sector's importance for those communities that would otherwise be left behind." ⁠
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Learn more at the link in our bio. #WorldTourismDay

While it's certainly not the most well-known album

While it's certainly not the most well-known album with Abbey Road in the title, Portuguese fado legend Amália Rodrigues did beat The Beatles to the record title by more than a decade. ⁠
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It has been said that Amália Rodrigues is to fado and Portugal what Bob Marley is to reggae and Jamaica. This week's #BannikinBeats selection from the Queen of Fado was recorded over two days at London’s Abbey Road studios in March of 1952. And while they weren't her first recordings, they were the first to cross international borders and show the world at large the talents of the singer who would come to embody the soul of Portugal. Listen at the link in bio.

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