Travel Exec Avail to Comment on What’s Next in this Chaotic Travel Season

2022 kick-started with travel turbulence. Airlines are canceling thousands of flights, and Omicron is spreading faster than ever. To top it off, when you arrive at your resort, you’ll often find out that the hotel is no longer cleaning rooms daily. 
What’s behind the chaotic travel season? Why are flights getting canceled? Is Omicron causing the travel sector to slow down? The best person to comment on the matter is HotelPlanner CCO Phillip Ballard. 

As the world’s most prominent group travel sales site leader, Ballard constantly talks with industry leaders. He possesses insights into what’s causing the travel issues and shocking facts, like how bookings continued to increase throughout Omicron. He is also tracking travel bookings in real-time.  
Ballard is available to discuss:

• Staffing shortages behind the airlines’ issues. 
• Omicron has hurt airlines, but staffing shortages have also caused some cancellations. Some workers are refusing to apply for cleaning jobs. Many pilots refuse vaccines. These trends lead to staffing shortages, which in turn are causing travelers to run into delays when checking into hotels, a lack of cleaning people, and more new dilemmas. Fear not. Ballard has tips, like hotels’ new digital check-in programs, to get you through it.
• What types of travel are increasing. 
• Conventional wisdom says travel is decreasing. Not all of it. In the past few months, weddings, reunions, and more have increased dramatically to the point where many hotels transform lobbies into wedding spaces.  
• How hotels have changed because of COVID-19. 
• Weddings aren’t the only additions to lobbies. Many hotels are renovating lobbies to resemble Starbucks to welcome workers who work on the road. After years of wedding cancellations, people aren’t going to keep rescheduling weddings. Hotels will profit in 2022 off brides desperate for a wedding location. 

Ballard can discuss these and many more travel trends. To speak to HotelPlanner, email GABRIELLE@AMWPR.COM

ABOUT HOTELPLANNER HotelPlanner is a leading travel technology company that combines proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities, and a 24/7 global gig-based reservations and customer service network, to quickly and seamlessly serve all traveler hotel & accommodation needs from a single platform. HotelPlanner is one of the world’s top providers of individual, group, and corporate travel bookings, specializing in unique “Closed User Group” discount rates.Founded in 2004, HotelPlanner has enduring partnerships with the world’s largest Online Travel Agencies, well-known hotel chains, individual hotels, online wedding providers, ancillary lodging providers, corporations, sports franchises, universities, and government agencies.