{"id":1153,"date":"2020-09-21T01:27:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T01:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=26325"},"modified":"2020-09-21T01:27:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T01:27:12","slug":"skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/global-travel-news\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Skal International Stands Strong with Its Membership Despite Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-26326 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic.jpg\" alt=\"Skal International Stands Strong with Its Membership Despite Pandemic - TRAVELINDEX\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-2.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-3.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-4.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-5.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-6.jpg 897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignleft wp-image-26326 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic.jpg\" alt=\"Skal International Stands Strong with Its Membership Despite Pandemic - TRAVELINDEX\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-2.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-3.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-4.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-5.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic-6.jpg 897w\">Malaga, <span class=\"xn-location\">Spain<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">September 18, 2020<\/span> \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The Pandemic hit the travel and tourism industry the hardest around the globe. During this most difficult time, Sk\u00e5l International has been able to work on successful retention with its 350 Clubs in over 100 countries, recruit new members and even launch new clubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Pandemic has reiterated the fact that Sk\u00e5l International plays a vital role in connecting people, providing information, assisting members\u2019 careers, and furthering their industries or professions. As technological, social, and economic shifts change how people work and engage with each other, we in Sk\u00e5l International are finding innovative ways to connect with future and potential members\u2019 said <span class=\"xn-person\">Daniela Otero<\/span>, CEO \u2013 Sk\u00e5l International.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/category\/more-news\/organizations\/international-organizations\/world-travel-tourism-council-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Keep up-to-date with all the latest WTTC News and Press Releases here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There have been numerous studies conducted on to understand how these shifts are affecting the ways associations and their members are thinking about membership and discussing the future of associations worldwide. Innovation, offering different membership models as well as keeping the generation gap short are reported by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), to be the best solutions that work for associations to retain membership and achieve a growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I am confident to say that Sk\u00e5l International has been successful in adapting these suggestions that are recommended to see continued success. We have been working on innovation starting with Digital Transformation and opening the platform to membership with Webinars\/ Job Platforms \/ Benefits Platform which initiates B2B for members. We offer different membership models and over 40 membership classifications that help our clubs to diversify their membership and increase their numbers. We shifted our focus to Young Professionals in the past few years as well accepting the fact that we need to stay close and connected to the future leaders of our industry\u2019 said <span class=\"xn-person\">Burcin Turkkan<\/span>, Director of Membership Development, Strategy &amp; Innovation \u2013 Sk\u00e5l International.<\/p>\n<p>Sk\u00e5l International membership has members from 40 different approved classifications among the Travel and Tourism Industry with many industry\u2019 VIP names. Recent VIP name that Sk\u00e5l International is proud to welcome is <span class=\"xn-person\">Carina Bauer<\/span>, CEO of IMEX Group. She has joined Sk\u00e5l International as of <span class=\"xn-chron\">August 2020<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, Sk\u00e5l International is making a call to all Travel and Tourism Industry Professionals to join Sk\u00e5l International and take advantage of being a member of the world\u2019s largest networking organisation; Connecting Tourism Globally, with over 86 years of history offering the most up to date digital transformation platform that is available today in the market and the unique opportunity of doing business amongst friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is the time when each and every professional in the industry needs to stay connected and be a part of a large international organisation like Sk\u00e5l International. When the pandemic is over, those who have been a part of a large networking group like Sk\u00e5l will be the ones who will be able to recover the fastest.\u2019 said <span class=\"xn-person\">Peter Morrison<\/span>, President of Sk\u00e5l International.<\/p>\n<p>Sk\u00e5l International is the world\u2019s largest global network of Tourism Professionals promoting Tourism, Business and Friendship worldwide since 1934. Its members are Directors and Executives of the Tourism sector who relate to each other to address issues of common interest, improving a business network and promoting destinations.<\/p>\n<p>First published at<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/people\/travel-executives\/skal-international-stands-strong-with-its-membership-despite-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> TravelCommunication.net &#8211; Global Travel News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaga, Spain, September 18, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The Pandemic hit the travel and tourism industry the hardest around the globe. During this most difficult time, Sk\u00e5l International has been able to work on successful retention with its 350 Clubs in over 100 countries, recruit new members and even launch new clubs. \u2018The Pandemic has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[314,81,106,116,169,110,559,117,558,121,118,119,111,120],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-bernard-metzger","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-global-travel-news","tag-healthtravelplanner-com","tag-news","tag-skal-international","tag-tourism-updates","tag-travel-executives","tag-travel-news-hub","tag-travelindex","tag-unwto-news","tag-updates","tag-wttc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}