Over recent years, as the United Nations specialized agency for tourism, UNWTO has been regularly monitoring travel facilitation and observing a continuous trend towards more openness. COVID-19 has dramatically interrupted this. According to researc…
Duetto Launches Free Market Demand Report For Hoteliers
Duetto, hospitality’s innovative software as a service provider of revenue strategy solutions has launched the Duetto Pulse Report, a free, data-driven analysis of key metrics including bookings, cancellations and website traffic in the US, Europe, …
“Words Alone Will Not Save Jobs”: UNWTO Leads Call For Firm Action By Governments To Support Tourism Recovery
The Global Tourism Crisis Committee has united behind the World Tourism Organization’s rallying cry for governments to “go beyond words” and begin taking decisive action to safeguard the millions of jobs under threat as a result of the COVID-19 pand…
Germany’s Most Innovative Companies
Deutsche Hospitality comes first among 15 other German hotel chains in the “Innovation” category of the 2020 “WELT Corporate Management Awards”. “This award is a fabulous confirmation of our ability to innovate,” said Thomas Willms, CEO, Deutsche Ho…
Meliá Hotels International To Reward 10,000 Healthcare Workers Combatting COVID-19 With 10,000 2-night Hotel Stays
Meliá Hotels International is preparing to launch “the biggest solidarity campaign in the company’s history, inspired by the most exceptional circumstances we have ever experienced,” in which it will offer healthcare workers 10,000 free two-night ho…
Accor and Bureau Veritas launch a label based on sanitary measures to support the return to business in the hospitality and restaurant industry
Accor, a global leader in augmented hospitality, and Bureau Veritas, a world-leading provider in testing, inspection and certification, have joined forces to develop a label designed to certify that the appropriate safety standards and cleaning prot…
How Can We Be Sustainable Post-COVID-19
As a travel journalist and someone who cares deeply about the future of our planet, the moral dilemma of air travel is something I constantly grapple with. I’ve reduced the number of trips I take, buy carbon offsets when I travel and focus my assign…
Coronavirus Air Travel: What Needs to Happen Before We Fly Again?
The coronavirus pandemic has brought air travel to a screeching halt around the globe. Government restrictions and stay-at-home orders have stopped passengers from crossing borders or even leaving their homes, sapping demand for flight bookings. In …
Where we’re traveling next
(CNN) — Like most of the world, we here at CNN have been grounded for the past several weeks. For a team that covers travel daily, this has been a challenging time. Not for lack of news, but because most of us feel at home while on the road or in th…
Post-Covid-19 Hotel Re-Opening Planning – Start Now
An epidemic such as that we are now experiencing, requires that plans for re-opening build in assumptions that can be reviewed as the situation becomes clearer. Unlike having set target dates for opening a new hotel, based on construction and fittin…