Recovery, Resilience and Responsibility
By Daniel Turner, Director, ANIMONDIAL As lockdowns are eased across the world, we have a choice of returning to ‘business as usual’, or taking greater responsibility for our actions, protect...
Business Development
Moving to Local Tourism
With borders closed, planes grounded, the economy in tatters and the coronavirus still pummeling the planet, the tourism industry has not seen worse days. Yet as economies slowly reopen, people...
Tuscany Adventure Times: It’s Time to Restart
Toscana Promozione Turistica, the Regional Agency for Tourism, has decided to inform constantly tourist operators and partners about the situation generated by Covid-19. We also planned a series of actions...
Austin Adventures Providing Insider Knowledge with a New Webinar Regarding Travel During and After COVID-19
On July 9th, 2020, at 1:00 PM MDT, CEO of Austin Adventures Dan Austin and President Kasey Austin will co-host a master webinar regarding travel during and after COVID-19. Topics...
Munich Re Subsidiary Roanoke Partners with Travel Insurance Tech Startup battleface
Roanoke Travel Insurance, a subsidiary of Munich Re Specialty Group North America, has partnered with the travel insurance startup battleface to launch product sales in the United States. battleface offers...
Flywire Survey Reveals Consumers Upbeat About Travel Post COVID-19
Boston, US and London, UK, June 16, 2020 — Flywire, a high-growth vertical payments company, today released new research that reveals very strong consumer demand for travel post coronavirus crisis....
Season 3 of Epic Trails Hits US Airwaves
Heliconia, the video production company behind the hit television show Epic Trails, is excited to announce that Season 3 of the Telly Award-winning series premiered on OutsideTV June 11th at...
Austin Adventures Launches Contest to Acknowledge and Honor America’s Essential Workers
BILLINGS, MT, June 17, 2020 – Award-winning active tour company Austin Adventures is celebrating the essential workers who have kept America going throughout the COVID-19 pandemic through their first-ever America’s...
ATTA Offers In-depth Online Safety & Risk Management Course
To address the evolving needs of the adventure tourism industry in regards to education and crisis management response, the Adventure Travel Trade Association’s online instruction initiative is now live. COVID-19...
Adventure Travel Trade Association works in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic on COVID-19 Health and Safety Guidelines for the adventure tourism industry
The Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) has released their COVID-19 Health & Safety Guidelines for three adventure activities – trekking, biking, and rafting – as well as one overarching guideline...
Research
Latest Adventure Business Sentiment: Losses Compound and Optimism Returns Slowly
The Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) has released findings from its Second Adventure Business Impact Monitor Survey: COVID-19. Fielded to adventure industry constituents from May 14-31, 2020, and answered by...
Stop Poaching, Fund a Ranger
A Message from Adventure Travel Conservation Fund (ATCF) There are urgent needs in the places that we love and want to return to. With travel almost coming to a halt,...
Voices From The Field
Empty Iceland – Iceland has Safely Opened Up to the Rest of the World
“Iceland was never over-crowded, but now it is positively empty!” With border testing on arrival, only a handful of cases since the start of May and a tiny population density, perhaps...
How Tour Operator Cascada Expediciones is Keeping the Adventure Alive
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, local Chilean tour operator Cascada Expediciones is working to keep the adventure alive by inspiring its passengers with optimism, readiness and confidence about the future of...
Editorial Statement Against Racism and Discrimination
We have taken the last couple of weeks to quietly learn and listen to the voices stemming from the abhorrent events in Minnesota and elsewhere in the U.S. The Adventure...