About... Travel Weekly Business
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ravel Weekly Business is targeted at senior decision makers within the travel industry and related sectors. The undisputed leader for breaking news and analysis, Travel Weekly
Business is truly multi-platform, offering daily emails, breaking news alerts, online analysis, a section in Travel Weekly magazine, bulletins throughout the year and a range of events. The digital platform utilised across the
Travel Weekly Group ensures all Travel Weekly Business content, including the Travel Weekly Insight market reports, are accessible on desktop, tablet and mobile devices through Apple and Android apps. Launched four years ago, Travel Weekly
Business has established a reputation for the excellence of its reporting and analysis. Its core service is the Travel Weekly Business:am email briefing. Sent out every weekday at 9am, the Business:am briefing delivers the day’s biggest stories, insightful comment and share prices. With a daily average of eight stories, the Business:am briefing has delivered almost 8,000 news stories since its launch in 2011. Our invitation-only Travel Weekly Business
Breakfast and Dinner events are firmly established in the diaries of leading executives. These events, appealing to both the leisure and corporate sectors, offer an unrivalled line-up of speakers – the chief executives of easyJet, Skyscanner, Virgin Atlantic, Thomas Cook and Flybe were among those to appear for one-to-one interviews in the past 12 months, along with panel appearances by senior executives from companies including Ryanair, Tui Travel, Deloitte and dnata. The industry’s need for regular analysis
of the trends affecting the outbound market continues to be met by Travel Weekly Insight. And this Travel Weekly Insight Annual Report, published each November, is now firmly established as the definitive overview of the sector.
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Travel Weekly Insight Annual Report team
Ian Taylor is executive editor of Travel Weekly Group and among the most-respected journalists in the travel sector. He contributes to the Travel Weekly Business portfolio across print and online, moderates many of the Travel Weekly Business events, and produces the regular Travel Weekly Insight bulletin. Ian is a career journalist who has covered the travel industry for most of the past 16 years.
Contributors
David Stevenson writes Travel Weekly’s regular City Insider column and the Adventurous Investor column for the Financial Times. An economist by training, David was previously chief financial investigative reporter at the BBC on programmes including The Money Programme and Panorama.
Lee Hayhurst is Travel Weekly Group head of news, editor of digital travel news site Travolution and a specialist in travel technology. He oversees the daily Travel Weekly Business:am news alert.
Hollie Rae-Merrick is Travel Weekly’s specialist cruise correspondent, providing extensive coverage of a key sector to many retailers. She joined Travel Weekly after developing her skills on local newspapers.
Rupert Murray is editor of Aspire, the website and magazine of Travel Weekly Group’s Aspire Travel Club for luxury travel professionals. He writes extensively on the luxury travel sector.
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