GW Tourism Alumni Network (GWTAN)

01/09/2025

It's National Mentoring Month!

Start the year by giving back to the GW community—join Career Connect to mentor current students and fellow alumni. Build professional relationships, share your expertise, & help others grow in their careers!

Register ➡️ https://careerconnect.gwu.edu/v2/

12/27/2023

12/27/2023

10/20/2023

The "where, why, how and how much?” of tourism investments were the focus of high-level dialogues within the framework of the UNWTO General Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

01/21/2022

What a great initiative! Live for a year for free in a restored ‘1 Euro’ Sicilian home with Airbnb.

Airbnb is on the search for the ideal candidate to live rent-free for a year and host a decayed-turned-designer Italian heritage home.

10/28/2021

More destinations and companies need to get on board: "According to the global "mobile" remote work or teleworking, more and more companies are introducing policies that officially give employees the opportunity to work elsewhere for an extended period of time each year.

And as it happens on the market, where there is demand, there is supply, so one of the world's largest tour operators TUI sees its opportunity in the segment of supply to digital nomads, ie to fill the gap that opens".
https://hrturizam.hr/en/tui-napravio-posebne-pakete-za-digitalne-nomade-tui-workations-digitalni-nomadi-nisu-vise-buzz-nego-trend-koji-raste-uzlaznom-putanjom/

If you haven’t by now, be sure to hop on this “train,” especially destinations that need to create a destination “framework”

05/24/2021

The certificates will be a scannable QR code proving vaccination, negative test or immunity.

05/17/2021

Traveling will be different but also safer in 2021.

08/11/2020

EU officials have drawn up a list of 14 countries whose citizens will be allowed to travel to the bloc, including Canada, and Australia.

08/07/2020

The State Department has lifted its Level 4 Health Advisory, returning to deeming destinations safe for travel on a country-by-country basis.

05/16/2020

Italy's government on Saturday approved a decree which will allow travel to and from abroad from June 3, in a major development as it moves to unwind one of the world's most rigid coronavirus lockdowns.

05/13/2020

Perhaps no industry has been as hard hit by the pandemic as tourism. As restrictions on companies and travelers ease, what will the new world look like?