July 7, 2026
Session Summaries | India Origin Market Interest Group
A summary of discussion points and takeaways from our India Origin Market Interest Groups
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Conversations | Future-Proofing Tourism: The Strategic Role of Shoulder and Off-Peak Travel
In this conversation, Caroline Bremner discusses how destinations can use shoulder and off-peak travel to manage capacity pressures and support sustainable growth.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Conversations | Malta Year-Round – Strategies to Drive Off-Peak Travel
In this destination case study, Leslie Vella examines how Malta is encouraging year–round travel beyond its peak summer season.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Deep Dive | Driving Demand Beyond Peak Season – Marketing Strategies that Work
This webinar explores effective marketing strategies for encouraging travel beyond Europe’s traditional high season.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Deep Dive | Rethinking Seasonality – Trends in Europe’s Key Source Markets
This webinar explores changing seasonality patterns across European source markets and the factors shaping travel demand beyond peak periods
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Deep Dive | Unlocking Off-Peak Opportunity in European Destinations
This webinar explores how European destinations can better use shoulder and off-peak capacity through stronger product development and visitor experiences.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Fast Track | Cities in Collaboration: Unlocking Off-Peak Opportunity Across Europe
The session explores knowledge sharing, aligned strategies and innovation to support resilient, sustainable visitor economies.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Fast Track | Crowded Out – The hidden impacts of unbalanced tourism
In this session, Edmund Morris explores how crowding affects destinations and creates commercial risks for tourism businesses.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Fast Track | Staying Longer, Going Further – The Rise of Multi-Day Tours
In this session, Douglas Quinby from Arival presents research on the evolving multi day tours and activities sector.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Fast Track | From Overtourism to Opportunity – Visionary Approaches to Dispersal and Seasonality
In this session, Doug Lansky explores how destinations can tackle seasonality through innovative off-season products and experiences.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Fast Track | Innovation for Impact: Technology Driving Off-Season Travel and Visitor Dispersal
In this session, John Boulding from Vox Group explores how technology can support visitor dispersal and encourage off season travel.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Fast Track | Demographic Shifts and the Future of Travel Demand
In this SHOP Fast Track session, our tourism statistics expert David Edwards explores key population trends and how they are influencing demand for European travel today and in the years ahead.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Fast Track | Data and Sentiment for Off-Peak demand
In this SHOP Fast Track session, Data Appeal’s Hannah Babineau explores off peak and low season travel trends across Europe.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP Fast Track | Spreading the Benefits – Insights on visitor dispersal in Italy
In this session, Pio Macchiarulo from GetYourGuide shares findings from a sustainability impact study in Italy.
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July 6, 2026
SHOP – Shoulder & Off-Peak Handbook 2026
Following SHOP 2026, we're pleased to share this handbook, packed with insights and ideas to help extend the season and diversify itineraries.
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June 24, 2026
Session Summaries | China Origin Market Interest Group
A summary of discussion points and takeaways from our China Origin Market Interest Groups in 2025.
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June 23, 2026
Middle East Crisis: Impact on Buyers of European Tourism Services
In May 2026, ETOA conducted a survey of its tour operator members to assess the impact of the ongoing Middle East crisis on European tourism businesses.
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June 23, 2026
Middle East Crisis: Impact on European Suppliers and Destinations
End of May, ETOA conducted a new survey to Suppliers and Destinations members to continue assessing the impact of the ongoing Middle East crisis on European tourism businesses.
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June 18, 2026
ETOA Webinar | New UK Employment Regulations
We ran a webinar with CMS that covered regulations on unfair dismissal, zero/low hours workers, collective redundancy changes, harassment and trade unions.
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June 17, 2026
Beyond Paris: GetYourGuide and the new geography of French tourism
This GetYourGuide and Formules study highlights how experience-led travel is spreading visitor spending beyond traditional hotspots, supporting local economies, extending stays and generating an estimated €5.6 billion economic impact across France.
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June 17, 2026
Amadeus – Global Mobility Trends: Decoded
The report reflects on mobility not simply in terms of how we travel but how consumers connect with the world through technology, prior, during and after a trip courtesy of a detailed consumer survey and conversations with leading industry representatives involved in the provision of traveller transfer services.
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June 17, 2026
UN Tourism Barometer May 2026
The first Barometer to be published after the outbreak of conflict in the Middle East unsurprisingly notes growing uncertainty facing the sector, but nonetheless reports that international tourism grew at a rate of 2% in the first quarter of this year.
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June 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound North America 2026 | Closing session
Wrapping up the inaugural Showcase: North America Outbound, where we bring together learning and output from our insight sessions, B2B workshops and meetings.
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June 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound North America 2026 | The end of easy growth? US Outbound travel explored
This final session of the Showcase takes a wide-ranging look at the US outbound travel market at a time of economic and geo-political uncertainty, demographic change and shifting traveller priorities.
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June 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound North America 2026 | Focus on the Mexican Traveller
Building on our two previous market comparisons, panellists outline the profile of the Mexican traveller, including socio-economic segments, travel motivations and preferred European destinations.
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June 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound North America 2026 | Focus on the Canadian Traveller
This session turns attention to the Canadian outbound traveller, highlighting both similarities and important distinctions from the US market.
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June 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound North America 2026 | Focus on the US Traveller
This session dives into the largest and most influential outbound market in North America: the United States.
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June 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound North America 2026 | The Function of Travel Advisors in the North American market
Our panel explains how advisors operate in the US, Canada and Mexico, including business models, host agencies, consortia and specialisation trends.
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June 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound North America 2026 | How Europe can compete for the North American market
This session explores Europe’s competitive position in the North American outbound landscape.
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June 1, 2026
Welcome to Showcase: Outbound North America 2026
This opening session kicks-off the month, as our resident tourism statistics expert, David Edwards, will present an introduction to data and trends in the North American outbound market.
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June 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound North America Handbook 2026
Following the first edition of Showcase: Outbound North America 2026, we are delighted to share the North America Handbook 2026, sharing insights and practical takeaways.
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May 18, 2026
Lemax Webinar: The Great Divide – three forces splitting the multi-day tour operator market in 2026
Webinar and blog from ETOA members Lemax and our partner at Arival on how technological capability is dividing the multi-day sector.
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May 18, 2026
Open Destinations: Delivering Exceptional Travel Experiences in a Real-Time World
A blog piece from ETOA member Open Destinations on how a traveller's digital journey now forms part of their overall experience.
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May 18, 2026
Booking.com – Travel and Sustainability Report 2026
A 25-page report that details the findings from the latest study by Booking.com into how travellers around the world are tweaking their travel choices in relation to sustainability issues.
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May 18, 2026
Dragon Trail Research White Paper: Luxury Travel Trends
A Dragon Trail Research White Paper that takes an in-depth look at the Chinese High Net Worth Individual travel market courtesy of research undertaken among HNWIs but also analysis and opinion shared by leading industry players. A key conclusion is that this market segment very much prioritises international travel over other forms of expenditure.
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May 18, 2026
Dragon Trail Report: The Value of Travel in a Changing World
A Dragon Trail Research report based on a study of Chinese traveller sentiment that finds outbound travel intentions have softened compared with a year ago, although remains up on levels from 2024. Relaxation and leisure, tasting exotic cuisine and enjoying natural scenery are some of the leading motivations for upcoming outbound trips.
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May 18, 2026
UN Tourism International Tourism Highlights 2025
The latest in the long-running series of “Highlights” reports from UN Tourism, which while full of useful facts and figures it is important to note that the data relates to 2024, and as such provides a valuable glimpse into the past rather than shining a light on the present.
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May 18, 2026
Amadeus – Travel Dreams 2026
A comprehensive 48-page report based on 6,000 interviews with global travellers across leading outbound markets (Australia, China, Germany, India, the UK and US) and 500 interviews with senior hoteliers in the most visited destinations, supplemented with insights from a handful of key DMOs.
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May 18, 2026
ETC Trends and Prospects Q1 2026
The first of the quarterly reports from ETC for 2026 looks back at Europe’s performance during full-year 2025 and how the early, rather turbulent, few months of 2026 have been shaping up, with an estimate that were the conflict in the Middle East to have ended by late April 4% of Europe’s international visitor nights are at risk in 2026.
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May 18, 2026
ETC Monitoring sentiment for domestic and intra-European travel Wave 24
The twenty-fourth wave of online research looking at the extent to which Europeans are planning to travel within Europe, their concerns and the factors likely to influence their behaviour. With fieldwork during March 2026 this wave finds that intentions to travel have climbed sharply compared with a year ago, but Europeans are minded to take trips of a shorter duration with a lower budget.
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May 12, 2026
Middle East Crisis: Impact on European Tourism Businesses
In May 2026, ETOA conducted a survey of its tour operator members to assess the impact of the ongoing Middle East crisis on European tourism businesses.
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May 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound India Handbook 2026
Following the first edition of Showcase: Outbound India 2026, we are delighted to share the India Handbook 2026, sharing insights and practical takeaways.
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May 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound India | Breaking into India: Case studies by suppliers & destinations
In this session we hear from a selection of ETOA members who are successfully working with the Indian outbound market.
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May 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound India | Rethinking Assumptions & Understanding Demand
This session seeks to challenge misconceptions about the Indian outbound travel market.
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May 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound India | MICE Opportunities: Indian Outbound Business to Europe
In this session, we explore the latest trends, behaviours, and opportunities driving MICE travel from India to Europe.
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May 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound India | From India to Europe: The Evolving Demand & Product Landscape
Watch this insightful session where industry experts from key operators unpack the latest trends shaping Indian travel to Europe.
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May 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound India | Entry into the Indian market: Mapping effective distribution channels
This session offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the Indian outbound travel market, with a focus on identifying and navigating key distribution channels.
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May 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound India | Visas for the Indian Visitor | Rhetoric vs. Reality
In this session we present our findings from our 2025 India Visa survey. Together with our expert panellists we discuss the results.
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May 1, 2026
Showcase: Outbound India | Lessons learned
Wrapping up the inaugural Showcase: India Outbound, we summarised learning and output from our insight sessions, B2B workshops and meetings.
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ETOA Webinar | Middle East situation