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Coronavirus Travel News

Follow the latest news about coronavirus and its impact on hotels, airlines, cruise lines, tourism destinations, and other sectors of the travel industry.

We are over a year into the Covid-19 global pandemic, and the impact on the travel industry has been severe to say the least. Skift has been covering this on a day-to-day basis since January 2020. You can read the latest news, as well as all of our coverage, on the pages below.

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European Governments Weigh If It’s Time to Let Some Airlines Disappear

If the goal is efficient transportation in Europe, politicians may consider only bailing out the five biggest EU airline groups. But many other airlines are expected to receive significant government funds, partly for reasons of national pride.

Brian Sumers, Skift | 4 years ago

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Singapore Shows What the New Clean Is With Audit Initiative for Hotels

Guests trust hotels to be clean. Post-coronavirus, they want proof. Some will want it even in the contract. One country, Singapore, is helping its hotels nationwide to show proof with a new audit and certification.

Raini Hamdi, Skift | 4 years ago

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Hospitality School 2020 Graduates Confront an Evaporated Hotel Jobs Market

With extraordinarily bleak job prospects for the graduating class of 2020, hospitality students have to persevere and find any available opportunity until the travel industry recovers.

Cameron Sperance , Skift | 4 years ago

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Travel Marketing Post-Crisis and 11 Other Coronavirus Travel Stories This Week

In our coronavirus in travel coverage this week, marketers will have to throw out the playbook post-crisis, Booking Holdings mulled dire financial scenarios, a devalued Airbnb secured new financing at unattractive terms, Flight Centre closed 800 travel agencies, and Carnival Corp. took a controversial investment from the Saudi government.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

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Major Coronavirus-Battered Airlines Rile Competitors by Seeking Subsidies on Certain Key Routes

Like clockwork, the battle between the haves and have-nots in the fiercely competitive airline industry is showing its familiar face. Low-cost carriers may be left out in the cold on this one.

Laurence Frost, Reuters | 4 years ago

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Hotels Should Expect Business Travel to Rebound First: The Long View This Week

Antibody testing could defy travel analyst expectations and cause business travel to return before leisure, but the theory hinges on the success of the testing.

Cameron Sperance, Skift | 4 years ago

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What Travel Companies Will Need to Know About Consumer Mindset Post-Crisis

A new world order for travel lies ahead. How quickly travelers adapt, and more importantly how quickly travel companies adapt to the changing behaviors, will be key.

Randy Durband, Skift | 4 years ago

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UK Blocks Sabre Acquisition of Farelogix as Anticompetitive

Sabre's arguments that UK regulators would merely fall in line if a U.S. court backed Sabre's merger with Farelogix were naive. The UK ruling was essentially correct about the proposed deal stifling innovation, and somewhere airlines are quietly celebrating the ruling.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

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Hong Kong’s Top Tourism Executive Plans Marketing Blitz to Revive Travel by July

Given Hong Kong's decimated tourist appeal due to coronavirus and months of anti-government protests, the Hong Kong Tourism Board has several obstacles to clear ahead of a recovery.

Donny Kwok, Reuters | 4 years ago

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Assessing the Coronavirus Damage to Online Travel: New Skift Research

The online travel industry is marginally better positioned to deal with this current outbreak than many of their suppliers in the hotel and airline industry. Still, the damage will get worse — and be severe and long-lasting.

Seth Borko, Skift Research | 4 years ago