A Recovery Timeline and 25 Other Top Cororonavirus Stories This Week
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In travel-related coronavirus stories this week, Skift covered potential recovery timelines, layoffs at Tripadvisor and Kayak, Aribnb's vision of an era of travel redistribution, lessons for hoteliers from 9/11 and SARS, and Hilton's partnership to enhance its cleaning protocols, among many other topics.
What Would a Timeline for Travel’s Reopening Look Like?: A helpful — and hopeful — timeline for the battered travel sector. Local travel will likely lead this reopening timeline.
Tripadvisor Lays Off 25 Percent of Global Workforce, Closes Some Offices: Tripadvisor isn’t immune from the coronavirus travel lockdown in many parts of the world, and it is taking difficult steps to survive the pandemic.
What Hoteliers Can Learn From the 9/11 and SARS Crises: New Skift Research: With no way of knowing how long this crisis will last or what recovery will look like, we look back at two past crises to see how the industry reacted then, and what lessons can be learned. Many, as it turns out.
Airbnb to Roll Out Sanitization Plan for Hosts That Would Include 72-Hour Wait Between Stays: Cleanliness standards will guide guest preferences in the years ahead. Short-term rental host practices will have to undergo significant enhancements to cope with that changing consumer behavior — a heightened sensitivity to just how clean their surroundings are as an outgrowth of the coronavirus pandemic.
Hilton, Lysol, and the Mayo Clinic Team Up on New Cleaning Standard for Hotels: Are enhanced cleaning standards enough to calm travelers’ nerves once social distancing goes away? We’ll find out this summer.
Kayak and OpenTable Layoffs and Furloughs Impact 400 Employees: The job cuts at Kayak and OpenTable represent the first reported layoffs
