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The New Travel Essentials
Holiday travel is setting pandemic records, fueled by the need to see family, the ability to work remotely, and the desire for bucket-list adventures. See the new accessory categories — health and safety, comfort, electronics, and pleasure — supporting travelers as they venture back into the world.
December 20, 2021
With a New Travel Landscape Comes New Opportunities
There’s no denying the pandemic fueled many changes and challenges to the travel goods industry – but this means new and different opportunities for all of us. Attending The 2022 Show is the best way to reconnect with the industry and strengthen and build existing and new relationships.
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As retail continues to evolve amidst a challenging and competitive landscape, more and more merchants are looking for additional ways to increase revenue opportunities. Among them includes introducing affiliate programs into their strategic marketing efforts.
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October 12, 2021
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As if launching a product isn’t challenging enough, a global pandemic comes along to further complicate the process. See how five manufacturers overcome an unprecedented situation.
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When travel started to recover last summer, we began to see a light at the end of tunnel. But our ability to reach that light was crippled by the shipping crisis, which imposed immense costs on the small, family-owned companies that comprise our industry at a time when we could least afford it and left us in many cases even unable to provide any product to meet that demand, leaving store shelves empty.![]()
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Every day, our industry faces a shipping crisis that has delivered us contract breaches, stubbornly high shipping rates, excessive and unjust fees, constant delays, and ongoing uncertainty on whether our product will ever arrive or even be moved. We are an industry of small companies who have no bargaining power with the big foreign-owned ocean carriers we rely on to move our product. This reality has translated into empty store shelves and much higher prices at the cash register, spurring inflation to historic levels.![]()
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