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Today is World Mental Health Day 🌍 💚 A helpful reminder that mental wellbeing isn’t a nice-to-have - it’s something every company should actively support. Over the past year, we’ve rolled out initiatives to support our people’s wellbeing: 🌿 Wellness programmes - from counselling sessions to dedicated Wellness Days, like those at our Bangalore hub. 🧠 Mindset training - 24 online sessions covering resilience, emotional intelligence, and adapting to change. 🎨 Creative wellbeing workshops - co-designed with lastminute Foundation, blending mindfulness, art, and body awareness to manage stress and build empathy. 👉🏼 Supporting Fundación Adecco's mission in Spain, devoted to  help people with psychosocial disabilities find meaningful work. Our HR team is taking part in training to improve inclusive hiring, learning to focus on skills and potential, not labels - “Because what truly matters is talent”. While it’s good to mark the day, it is also a reminder that support should be available on the other 364 days too. #WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealthAtWork #Inclusion #Wellbeing https://lnkd.in/d6DSECer https://lnkd.in/dtxabxmZ https://lnkd.in/dCKc6jcV

👉🏼 Should you sign-up to the first Lovable vibe coding hackathon in Milan, Italy, organised by our friends at Yellow Tech together with Pillar, Volta Software, Whatwapp - well we’d be happy to see you there! We’re proud to be sponsoring this event on Saturday, October 18, which will showcase Italian & international top builders in a six-hour, solo, single-day sprint. If that gets your coding juices flowing, the top prize worth €6,000 might keep that energy up. Imagine what you could spend that on (and yeah, we’re totally saying a holiday). We’re always on the lookout for top tech talent, which is why we’re proud to be supporting this event that gives coders the chance to shine. Here’s all the details on how to sign-up: https://luma.com/jcaojikx

📣 Our CEO Alessandro Petazzi sat down with Peel Hunt’s Ivor Jones this week to talk about what makes lastminute.com unique - from building a pan-European platform for dynamic holiday packages to embracing the opportunities AI brings to travel. In the wide-ranging chat, Alessandro shares why travel is the best business in the world, and how lastminute.com continues to evolve to meet the needs of millions of travellers. 🎥 You can watch the full conversation between Ivor and Alessandro here: https://lnkd.in/erp2Wamu #TravelTech #AI #lastminute

✨ Our #MentorsForGood network has kicked off with its first project: ESPERO - Empowering Women to Rebuild Communities through Renewable Energy. Launched by our Sustainability team, Mentors for Good is a community where colleagues volunteer their skills online to support NGOs and grassroots projects. #ESPERO is the first project we decided to support, developed by #SupportandSustainChildren and supported by the #lastminutefoundation, the project helps Syrian women determined to rebuild their communities through renewable energy and innovation. 👉🏼 That’s where our mentors come in: sharing expertise in public speaking, languages, business planning, and more - encouraging, guiding, and helping turn ideas into action. And thanks to our Volunteering Policy, our colleagues can dedicate up to two paid days per year to contribute to projects like this. 🙏🏼 We’re really proud of everyone who joined this journey so far! Support and Sustain Children: https://lnkd.in/du8V2KtH ⭐️ Arianna Martini

⛺ Our Learning & Development Camp is about to wrap up, and what a journey it’s been! This summer, our L&D team put together a #ProjectManagement “camp”: a beginner-friendly intro to the tools, principles, and mindsets that help projects run smoothly. Instead of tents and campfires, we had plenty of bite-sized e-learning, hands-on practice, expert drop-in sessions, and a final webinar to bring it all together. The goal? Building confidence with the basics and giving our colleagues practical skills they can use every day - all in a flexible, self-paced format that fits easily around their own summer plans. A big thank you 🙏🏼 to everyone who joined and made the camp such a valuable experience. Until next summer! 

September marks the end of the peak summer season - and is the perfect time to look back at a special initiative carried out at our Swiss office: #BringYourKidsToWork. We opened our doors for a few days to welcome our colleagues’ children to the office, where professional kids entertainers organised games and activities to make the day special. Kids got to see a little of their parents’ workplace while having fun - and at the same time, we could offer a little practical support to families during the long summer closure of schools. It was great having these little visitors around this summer - have a look at the slideshow to see what happened! 👇🏼

We're super proud to see the incredible strides Forward, born from lastminute.com, has made in the last few years to become the only end-to-end operator of its kind in the travel industry. They've already delivered creative campaigns for global travel brands and tourist boards, and we can't wait to see the team take it to the next level. As our Chief Marketing Officer, Paul C., said: "At lastminute.com we’ve seen first-hand the value Forward brings, from innovative creative campaigns to the strength of its media partnerships, which has allowed it to own specialist operations and build an impressive client roster." #TravelMarketing #EndToEndAgency #TourismMarketing

Over 36 million UK consumers have booked travel online in the past two years, and that number is only set to grow. At lastminute.com, we understand how crucial it is for the rules and regulations to keep up with the way people really plan and book their trips. That’s why we’re proud to support Online Travel UK’s new white paper, launched today, which sets out three key actions for policymakers to unlock £17.5 billion in online travel spend: ✨ Modernise consumer protections to reflect today’s booking behaviours ✨ Promote fair digital markets for all travel providers ✨ Build a world-leading travel tech ecosystem here in the UK As one of the first Online Travel Agents in the UK, innovation has always been at the heart of everything we do in making holidays happen. So we see a huge opportunity to put TravelTech at the centre of growth and deliver even more value for millions of travellers. 👏 Huge thanks to Online Travel UK for leading this important work on behalf of the sector and to all member companies who contributed to the paper. 📄 Read more here: www.onlinetraveluk.com

✋ Hands up if you’ve ever procrastinated on… anything 🙋♀️ You might be reading this post in the very act of procrastinating. The good news - you’re not alone. 🤷♂️ According to our new lastminute.com survey, Brits are officially a “procrasti-nation” – spending more than two days a month putting things off. From dodging laundry and DIY to ignoring WhatsApps, 89% of us admit to delaying tasks (and some even take annual leave to catch up). But procrastination isn’t always bad – in fact, 70% say they’re good at leaving things to the last minute. And when it comes to holidays, that pays off: 1 in 5 of our customers book within 72 hours of departure. 🦸♀️ So maybe procrastination isn’t a flaw… maybe it’s a superpower. Fortunately, the media didn’t hang about when it comes to spreading the news - you can read all about it here 👇, including the psychology behind procrastination - unless you’ve got something better to do or something you've been putting off for some time ….. no judgment here. https://lnkd.in/genVAVci #lastminute #procrastination #traveltech

As we reach the halfway point of August and arrive at A-Level Results Day in the UK, we’re suspecting there’s going to be a lot of last-minute holiday action going on. Together with our in-house Travel Intelligence Unit at Forward, born from lastminute.com, we’ve pulled together the data on the best places to visit this summer for a spontaneous break - and we’d rate all these destinations A-Starred! Thinking of studying languages?  - then Majorca, Barcelona and Tenerife are the perfect places to brush up on your Spanish - when in Rome, practice your Italian. - and Paris and Marrakech are parfait when it comes to checking out your French progress Heading off to study history? - Malta is marvellous for prehistoric temples to wartime fortifications - Amsterdam is great for the Golden Age - imagine yourself in 17/18th century Europe. Is Geography on your roadmap? - All signs should lead to Istanbul - the city that straddles both Europe and Asia, For all the best last-minute destinations for the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy - read all about this and much more in the report 👇 https://lnkd.in/eik3DsXZ #TravelHorizons #FutureOfTravel #Travel