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Tourism
Hong Kong certainly didn't need more problems after an exceptionally rocky 2019. But in coronavirus it's found just that.
Marius Zaharia and Clare Jim, Reuters | 4 years ago
Airlines
U.S. airlines had no choice. Their customers and their crew members do not want to go to China. Why should they fly empty planes there?
Brian Sumers, Skift | 4 years ago
Once again a deadly health scare proves to be the only thing that can stop travel. The older Asian tourism members understand this from the SARS crisis, and now the millennials are witnessing it too.
Raini Hamdi, Skift | 4 years ago
While the World Health Organization has stopped short of calling for a shutdown of global travel and trade, many travel companies are limiting their operations to reduce the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on their financials while helping to safeguard public health.
Rosie Spinks, Skift | 4 years ago
Business Travel
The Wuhan coronavirus is already wrecking havoc on the preparation of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. For the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the risks of contagion -- and disruption -- from the virus outbreak are clearly far greater.
Shrivathsa Sridhar, Reuters | 4 years ago
The coronavirus threat has given rise to a cloud of anti-Chinese discrimination. A virus outbreak is not an occasion for xenophobia or prejudice but a time for the tourism sector to work in solidarity to overcome the crisis. After all, viruses respect no borders or nationalities.
Xinyi Liang-Pholsena, Skift | 4 years ago
With epidemics usually excluded from insurance coverage, the spectre of a huge coronavirus bill looms for hotels, airlines, and event companies.
Carolyn Cohn, Sumeet Chatterjee and Noor Zainab Hussain, Reuters | 4 years ago
Coronavirus
Royal Caribbean's earnings hit is just the beginning as the impact of the coronavirus roils the travel industry.
Reuters | 4 years ago
British Airways' total ban on flights to China is a serious blow to travel confidence in the country, as most airlines are for now halting flights in and out of Wuhan, identified as ground zero of the coronavirus. But as concerns of a global epidemic mount, more airlines are likely follow suit.
Sarah Young, Reuters | 4 years ago
Coronavirus is crushing demand to China. But let's remember the first week in February already stinks for U.S-China flights. The Lunar New Year festivals last until Feb. 8, and during this period, lucrative business traffic dissipates. If this suspension continues past Feb. 8, we'll how bad the health crisis is hurting business.
Tracy Rucinski, Reuters | 4 years ago
