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World Travel Market 2014, the leading global event for the travel industry, is hosting two new seminar sessions looking at the relationship between women and the travel and tourism sector. World Travel Market 2014, the leading global event for the travel industry, is hosting two new seminar sessions looking at the relationship between women and the travel and tourism sector. Held as part of WTM’s Women in Travel programme, the two sessions cover very different issues; with one focusing on successful women travel entrepreneurs and the other addressing how the travel industry can play a role ...

Security and Privacy Challenges Threaten to Ground Vaccine Passports Vaccine passports hold one of the keys to getting the travel industry up in the air again, but they are not without privacy and security challenges. Alex Meehan investigates For as long as there has been technology, there have been competing standards, and it seems that when it comes to the issue of vaccine passports, not much has changed. Last month, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed that the UK would be using the NHS phone app as its COVID-19 vaccine passport. “It will be the N...

Travel Forward welcomes new executives LONDON, January 13, 2021 Travel Forward – the travel technology event co-located with WTM London – and part of the WTM Portfolio, which also includes WTM London, Arabian Travel Market, WTM Latin America, WTM Africa and London Travel Week, has announced two new senior appointments.   Richard Gayle is stepping down as Exhibition Manager after more than three years in that role and Simon Press will take over as Exhibition Director from January 2021.   Meanwhile, Fiona Ashton – Marketing Manager for sister brand Arabian Travel Market – will ta...

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Emergency room physician Cleavon Gilman, seen in front of the Gowan Company building in historic downtown Yuma, Ariz. Randy Hoeft for STAT As a combat medic deployed with the Marines in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province, Cleavon Gilman saw bodies torn apart by IEDs. He heard agonizing screams, saw burned flesh and penetrating trauma. He stood in pools of blood, tending to Marines with severed spinal cords, missing limbs, and intestines bulging through gaping wounds. He emptied the pockets of the dead, collecting baby pictures and ultrasound photos, removed dog tags, and stacked bodi...