AUTHOR: Nicole Mahoney
How to Move Your Organization from Reactive to Proactive Collaboration
In 2016, I launched my podcast Destination on the Left to explore creativity and collaboration in the travel and tourism industry. At the time, I noticed collaboration…
Why Collaboration Is No Longer Optional in Travel and Tourism
For years, collaboration has been an essential part of travel and tourism. In an industry that requires destinations, attractions, lodging and tour operators to work together to create travel product people will buy, collaboration simply happened naturally….
Themes from ABA 2026 Part 2: Embracing the Experience
In Part 1 of this series, we explored how collaboration has become essential to the future of group travel. Another change that is quickly becoming…
Commitment: World-Changing Collaborations
World-changing collaborations are grounded in the Three C’s of Collaboration: Communication, Commonality, and Commitment. This framework is based on over 5 years of podcast interviews,…
Annual Planning for Tourism Businesses and Organizations
As we approach a new year, many of us in the tourism industry are deep in budgets, goals, and project wrap-ups. I’m right there with you. This…
Making a Career in Travel & Tourism: What the Experts Want You to Know
When I first wrote about careers in travel and tourism, I highlighted insights from a handful of professionals I met at a conference—voices full of…
Commonality: Creating World-Changing Collaborations
The strongest partnerships are built on the foundation of the Three C’s of Collaboration: Communication, Commonality, and Commitment. In my first post about this framework,…
Collaboration Toolkit
Our first research study confirmed that collaboration is a constant in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. It is not a matter of if, but when and how, organizations will collaborate together. Our latest study reveals how organizations are putting collaboration into operation and how they are setting up systems and processes so that collaboration becomes a strategic part of the organization.
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