Richard Branson not speaking at Travel DAZE

Despite speaking at the World Business Forum in Sydney last week, it has now been confirmed that the global travel industry’s biggest name, Sir Richard Branson, will not be speaking at Travel DAZE next Monday 6 June, 2016.

The entrepreneur who had been in discussions with the event for months commands an appearance fee of US$350,000 (for his foundation) but this was narrowly beyond the reach of Travel DAZE organisers who offered a Flat White, 1 live chicken and a speck of dust.

Instead attendees will be treated to talks, insight, intellect and gentle hilarity from a host of other unobtainable speakers and organisations such as Australia’s Tourism Minister, the CEO of global advertising giant M&C Saatchi, travel agent revolutionary Gil McLachlan, the Travel Corporation’s Australian CEO, John Veitch, in his first public address since taking the reins of family-owned giant, Jules Lund off the telly (he also runs a very clever agency TRIBE) and many other smart people from future-thinking brands like Amadeus, Travelex, Instagram, Airbnb, Tourism New Zealand and even a start-up called Google (at least we think that’s how you spell their company name – our Yahoo! search didn’t turn up much).

The forum’s owner and co-founder of Travel DAZE, Dan Uglow said, “Thankfully, the election isn’t until July, so technically we still have the Tourism Minister speaking.”

The one-day conference, which will be held at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Surry Hills, will focus on the future of the travel with key themes including the ability for new technology to augment, rather than replace; the values of service in travel; the ever-evolving demands of customer experience in store and out of store; mobile and all things phoney; marketing insight for every business and every role within a business; and creativity in travel.

We are also pleased to confirm an exclusive appearance of a live chicken.

With over 200 hundred tickets already sold there is limited availability. For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.travelweekly.com.au

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sting says:
May 27, 2016 at 5:07 pm
…invite me instead…i’ll take it for free… i just want to tell hoteliers how stupid they are paying tripadvisor for a business listing…1. it is not a fair review site since some hotels pay and some dont… 2. it’s like paying people to malign your business in public… 3. accor group has signed up with tripadvisor which means accor’s properties have more advantage in asking tripadvisor to delete bad reviews… 4. your payment is worth nothing as your contact details on your listing are like fine prints of an insurance policy… 5. booking.com has signed up with trip advisor, another blow to your ghostly listing…. 6. your property rates will not come up on the rate search….you need to bid for it.. and yes you have to pay for the bidding… worse you cannot compete with the giant otas like expedia, booking.com, agoda etc…. 7. people who read and believe reviews are the sort of people you dont want to stay in your property -demanding, fussy, unreasonable, hard to please guests… saves your staff a lot of stress… 8. don’t take bad reviews so badly you want to kill yourself.. always, remember even god cannot please everybody…. ::::profile of the commenter – the commenter is a sales and marketing manager of a 3star property in sydney…. the property he looks after is ranked number 130 something on tripadvisor…. the property doesn;t pay tripadvisor anything, thank god… the hotel enjoys an average of 40% direct bookings, 80% of which are return guests /ok accor you can start biting your lower lip/…the hotel also enjoys an average of 87% occupancy the whole year round… the commenter is also a strong advocate of sptfn /stop paying tripadvisor for nothing/:::::: … i mean, seriously…
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