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Horizon brighter for UK tourism & leisure sectors, says MHA

Around one third of staff working in guest houses, hotels, restaurants and pubs are now employed on zero hours contracts, according to the latest Travel & Tourism Survey conducted by MHA, a UK-wide association of chartered accountants and business advisors.

The Contact Centre of Tomorrow ? 5 ways it will be different By Philippe Ougrinov, VP Sales & Marketing, TELUS International Europe

The contact centre of 2014 is already almost unrecognisable from the call centre of 1984, 1994, even 2004. It is hard to think of a sector which has been through more change. Yet within the next few years we will witness another revolution in the contact centre world.

Survey highlights Brits' motivation for taking a break

A survey of 2,000 people has found that Brits are not necessarily using their summer holidays to simply bask in the sun.

Stephen Taylor, MD and VP International of Sojern, asks if we can afford to ignore big data

Increasingly, companies are taking advantage of information on the behaviour of potential travellers to predict future behaviour, and to use these predictions to deliver better travel experiences for their customers.

Powerful pound helps prices plunge in most top European family resorts says new Family Holiday Report

Families travelling to the eurozone and other European hotspots at the end of the school term will find that the powerful pound will make it cheaper in almost every destination surveyed for the annual Post Office Travel Money Family Holiday Report.

Susan Cully, the managing director of Marlin Apartments, explains how agents can compete with Airbnb in the short breaks market

Increases in demand for short breaks in London has led to widening of supply and an increasingly competitive market where agents must be savvy to protect their profit margins.

Hotel standards fall as Brits fail to complain

More than half (54%) of British guests fail to complain about hotel cleanliness issues, according to new research from CheckSafetyFirst.com.

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Welcome to the Training section of the Travel Bulletin Online website. On this page we feature invaluable articles from respected Travel Training Professionals that will help improve your work skills and so develop your career. Learn from the experts!

You can also link through to a calendar of forthcoming training events to see what free training is currently on offer in your geographical region.

We are in the process of developing our own Travel Bulletin Online Learning Zone, so watch this space!

If you have any suggestions about our training section or have some training features or events you feel we should feature then please email training@travelbulletin.co.uk.