Tag: Coronavirus

March 4, 2022

A lot has changed in two years since the actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they had contracted what was then known as novel coronavirus on a film set in Australia. What hasn’t varied is the desire around the […]

January 6, 2022

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and UKinbound have welcomed the government’s decision to remove pre-departure tests for travellers and replace damaging Day 2 PCR testing with antigen tests Julia Simpson, WTTC President & CEO, said: “The removal of […]

March 17, 2021

The coronavirus vaccine is becoming available to more people across the United States and the world. Given the uptick in travel, it seems that more people are becoming confident to travel once they become fully vaccinated. Here are some travel […]

February 5, 2021

Among governments and those in the travel industry, a new term has entered the vocabulary: vaccine passport. One of President Biden’s executive orders aimed at curbing the pandemic asks government agencies to “assess the feasibility” of linking coronavirus vaccine certificates […]

January 22, 2021

Americans are hitting the road again. But they’re not traveling to Chicago on business or to Las Vegas and Disney World for vacations. They’re going in search of vaccines. Frustrated by crashing appointment websites, shortages of Covid-19 shots and a […]

October 19, 2020

SINGAPORE — Leisure travel between Hong Kong and Singapore could resume in the coming weeks as both cities work to set up a bilateral “travel bubble” that will allow travelers to forgo quarantine. The two cities — both major business […]

October 16, 2020

U.S. Travel Association Executive Vice President of Public Affairs and Policy Tori Emerson Barnes issued the following statement on the introduction of the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan Hospitality and Commerce Job Recovery Act of 2020: “Targeted economic relief for struggling travel-related […]

October 12, 2020

European countries are tightening cross-border travel restrictions as they try to rein in a surge in coronavirus infections and prepare for a possible further increase with the arrival of cold weather. Even as the thicket of travel restrictions across Europe […]

August 6, 2020

2020 has not gone according to plan for Airbnb. The tech company came into the year preparing for a highly anticipated IPO, but then the coronavirus pandemic changed everything. As the pandemic devastated the global travel industry, Airbnb laid off […]

July 29, 2020

Boeing said Wednesday it plans to cut aircraft production and warned about the possibility of further reductions in its workforce as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic ravages demand for air travel. The pandemic has driven up financial losses at […]

July 16, 2020

Coronavirus lockdowns and the grand work-from-home experiment killed the business travel industry — and, just like everything else, it’s not going back to normal anytime soon, if at all. Why it matters: Traveling for work is a $1.5 trillion industry […]

July 15, 2020

“What should I do about my trip?” It’s a question we are hearing often. In the short term, for international travel the State Department and most countries have answered the question for internationally: stay home. For domestic travel this summer […]

July 10, 2020

July is an exciting month for international travel as more countries open their borders to foreign travelers. Airlines are offering more domestic and international flight options than in the last few months. However, there are still many countries that Americans […]

July 8, 2020

If you’re dreaming of going abroad this summer, countries in the European Union are gradually reopening their borders to residents of select countries around the world. From July 10, people from England, for example, will be able to go to […]

July 6, 2020

We agree that our commitment is to follow the World Health Organizations guidelines and local safety regulations to assure that our hotels and restaurants are free of infection risk. We also agree that accommodation and F&B operations, services, and the […]

June 16, 2020

The global pandemic halted travel in the short term, but its effects are going to last into the foreseeable future — and possibly forever. Hotel designers and architects are reworking existing projects and starting new ones with a focus on […]

June 16, 2020

It took several months, but coronavirus is finally impacting hotel construction. The hotel development pipeline had been an anomaly to the economic downward spiral from the pandemic. While hotel occupancy rates and revenue plummeted in March and April, the pace […]

June 15, 2020

Passenger demand at London’s second-largest airport may not return to pre-crisis levels for another three or four years as the sector grapples with severe disruption. Airports have been heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, with airlines stopping or significantly reducing […]

June 12, 2020

Key highlights: Drive-to destinations continued to show strong weekend performance, with Myrtle Beach, S.C., recording an 83.4% occupancy level. Economy class hotels reached a 50.3% occupancy level for the week, while the Upper Upscale class showed the lowest occupancy level […]

June 12, 2020

Many of the world’s greatest travel destinations are reopening to international travelers this summer. But not all openings are created equal. A handful of countries are letting in everyone, while others are inviting only a select few. Here is a […]