Shifting Google Dance Partners and 9 Other Coronavirus Travel Stories This Week
Photo Credit: Google announced it would be offering vacation rentals in a blog post on March 26, 2019. Google
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In coronavirus-related travel stories this week, Skift looked at the shifting lineup in Google vacation rentals, Airbnb's ambitions, what a prospective merger between IHG and Accor might look like, and how Croatia's tourism experiment is working out.
Booking Is In, Airbnb Is Out of Google Vacation Rentals: The online travel agency lineup in Google vacation rentals involves strategic considerations: take advantage of the bookings, and strengthen Google’s competitive position in the process, or risk going without.
The Event Industry Is Being Confronted By Its Napster Moment: All types of business events are in danger of their revenue streams of tickets, sponsorships, memberships, and other types of fees being eroded. This is happening as the world gets used to digital formats and alternatives emerge to physical networking, matchmaking, and other tasks
