Eye on Travel

Eye on Travel — NoMad Las Vegas — September 28, 2019

Locations in this article:  Las Vegas, NV

 

This week, Eye on Travel broadcasts from the NoMad Las Vegas – part of the Park MGM. Peter has the latest on the spectacular collapse of Thomas Cook, one of the oldest travel companies in the world, stranding nearly 600,000 people across the globe, and the lessons from this mega-failure that you need to apply every time you travel. Also an update on the failure of two more airlines this week. Matthew Upchurch, CEO of Virtuoso, reports on the changing definition of luxury travel and the quickly evolving behavior patterns of travelers. Arnie Weissmann, Editor-in-Chief at Travel Weekly, discusses the current legal cases involving drip pricing, unjustifiable fees and the almost $3 billion in resort fees collected by hotels last year. Scott McCartney, Travel Editor for The Wall Street Journal, updates the latest on identity management when it comes to travel — facial recognition: airports, biometric terminals and some of the questions that arise from it, like privacy concerns.  And George Kliavkoff, President of Entertainment and Sports at MGM Resorts, on the new approach to headliners and major acts — (and artist “residencies”), not to mention how Las Vegas is becoming one of the sports capitals of the world. There’s all this and more as Eye on Travel comes from the NoMad Las Vegas — part of the Park MGM — and the Virtuoso Travel Week.