Travel Tech Announces First 2021 Virtual Conference: Travel Tech USA and Canada, from March 8-12, 2021

• Miami, Florida, 3 March 2021

The event will provide North American hotels with technology-based educational resources & actionable strategic updates, designed to support their financial recovery

Travel Tech, the world’s largest education-based travel technology conference series, is proud to announce its first event of the 2021 schedule: Travel Tech USA & Canada, taking place online from March 8-12, 2021. Travel Tech USA & Canada is brought to you by HS LATAM - supported by JLNPR, Revenue Hub and with the support of Knowledge Partner, ehotelier - and will feature expert speakers from top travel technology companies, including Expedia Group, Amadeus, IDeaS, Lybra, ReviewPro, The Hotels Network, Infor, BookOnlineNow, BuyZy, Asksuite, eRevMax, Bookassist, YieldPlanet, Amelia, HiJiffy, RM Academy, Hub OS, and many others.

Travel Tech was founded as a passion project by HS LATAM - developer of state-of-the-art online distribution and competitor analysis solutions - at the beginning of the pandemic, to educate hotels about the importance of operational technology in supporting their current survival and, more importantly, to set hotels up for future success. Today, Travel Tech has partnered with other leading hospitality companies to expand the conference series globally and support even more hoteliers worldwide - including our first ever North American event, on March 8-12, 2021, which will provide hoteliers in the US and Canada with region-specific educational resources and actionable strategies to move, more quickly, toward recovery. Hotels can register for free for the event at https://event.webinarjam.com/register/1/x463mfm

North American hotels are facing a much more complex marketplace than many other regions, given the stringent lockdowns in Canada and the huge variations in pandemic response and regulation in different US states. For both countries, international travel has become almost impossible, due to border closures and governmental restrictions, so hotels can only rely on domestic travelers, even further shrinking the already depressed demand caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) “State of the Hotel Industry 2021” report, “half of U.S. hotel rooms are projected to remain empty in 2021”, the report concluded that “the impact of COVID-19 on the [American] travel industry so far has been nine times that of 9/11.” The Canadian hospitality industry has also been hit very hard by the pandemic; according to a Statistics Canada release, “the number of travelers to Canada from both the United States and overseas countries was down 92.9% in November [2020], compared with November 2019,” which obviously has had a significantly negative impact on Canadian hotels.

All hotels and/or travel technology companies are invited to attend the Travel Tech USA & Canada online conference, from March 8-12, 2021, to learn more about the benefits of investing in operational technology now, to establish a foundation for a stronger financial future tomorrow. Register for all five days of the Travel Tech USA & Canada conference, plus the Pitch Sessions, at https://event.webinarjam.com/register/1/x463mfm. Spots are limited so register today!