Faced with the constraints, many tourism sites have been able to show their inventiveness. Some projects, which could be perceived as too innovative or too atypical, were thus able to see daylight and achieve interesting success. Virtual reality (VR), which…
Airline executives said Thursday that the CDC had not contacted them about the possibility of expanding Covid-19 testing requirements to domestic flights.“I’m not aware that the CDC has reached out to us, and by extension I’m not aware that they’ve…
For more than eleven weeks, everything has been at a standstill in the Austrian tourism industry. The current lockdown for hotels and catering businesses will probably continue until the end of February. Thus, at this point, it is difficult to…
Details of the fourth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) have been revealed ahead of the launch this week in Saudi Arabia.The event is a multi-hub conference that brings together bold-thinking chief executives, investors and policymakers to usher in…
The City of Cape Town’s Tourism Task Team has announced a ten-point tourism strategy to encourage recovery in the sector.“With our ten-point tourism strategy, the City aims to help breathe life back into this vital sector, to help bring about…
Penguin News published on the 15 January edition a historic piece on the two peat slips suffered by Stanley in 1878 and 1886, which caused unimaginable destruction and cut the settlement in two.The peat ridge on the South side of…
Kiwi innovators have joined forces with the global company behind airport “eGates” on technology designed to quickly screen future travellers for immunity against the coronavirus.Dubbed a “lab on a disk”, Orbis Diagnostics’ tech is currently the only one of its…
The U.S. Travel Association praised most of the new administration’s travel-related executive orders, saying they will encourage safe travel and help restore the millions of travel lost last year.President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday requiring that people wear…
The Standard Hollywood hotel in West Hollywood, Calif., has announced that it is closing “indefinitely” this week after more than two decades in operation.The property was the first to open under hotelier Andre Balazs’ boutique Standard flag in 1998.“Despite 22…
The coronavirus has torn Spanish tourism apart, setting it back to 1995 levels. The industry’s contribution to Spain’s GDP was 106 billion euros smaller in 2020 (about 69% of activity). A total of 728,000 workers (435,000 furloughed and 293,000 laid…
