2012 Observatory: AIGO presents “The Luxury Travel Trends – II Edition”
After the 2010 edition, AIGO and Pangaea Network publish the findings of the second edition of the research focused on the European luxury travel trends, identifying changes in the market due to the financial crisis and highlighting trends that have taken hold in the last two years.
Among the new aspects: responsible tourism, emerging resorts and destinations and adventure travels among luxury travellers.
The Pangaea Network has asked a panel of 338 tourism professionals in Italy, France, UK, Germany and Spain.
Download the results of the survey “The luxury Market Trends II Edition”

Internet rendered the information easily available to a wide spreading public, influencing the traditional economic mechanisms in which information designs the distribution chain. Tourism, directly affected from this phenomenon, has responded accordingly by changing customary market mechanisms such as distribution and communications.
AIGO, BIT Press Office, attends the presentation of the 31st International Tourism Exchange edition, which will take place in Milan, from the 17th to the 20th of February 2011. On this occasion Mr. Massimo Tocchetti, AIGO President, has shown“The future of fairs, or rather fairs of the future” results, an in-depht study carried out for BIT from Pangaea, the international network of independent agencies co-founded by AIGO. The project has involved some of the main key players on the European tourism field (UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy), asked to express their opinions on fair issues influencing future market developments, i.e. business opportunities and face-to-face interactions.

Tourism industry is highly suffering the consequences of the international economical crisis. During the last two years we have been witnesses for the proliferation of advices aimed to let tour operators, airline companies, hotel chains and destinations face this crisis.