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Airlines
The incoming chief executive inherits a company which has had its business model uprooted by the Russian airspace closure.
Gordon Smith | 3 months ago
Cruises
While her size is making headlines, it is her sustainability efforts that should be applauded.
Jess Wade, Skift | 9 months ago
Tourism
As demand has increased, the Arctic has expanded its visitor infrastructure. It just needs to ensure that it has the personnel to preserve the experiential part of it.
Dawit Habtemariam | 1 year ago
Finland remains the only neighboring country that still issues visas to Russian tourists, as Latvia, Poland, Estonia and Lithuania impose new restrictions. The opportunities Russians now have to fly from other countries is more restricted than ever.
Anne Kauranen, Reuters | 2 years ago
Estonia, Latvia and Finland have gone two years without Russian tourists, and they can go on longer.
Dawit Habtemariam | 2 years ago
Finnair's shift in strategy is a sign the company doesn't see the flights between Europe and Asia that drove its pre-pandemic profitability returning anytime soon.
Startups
India's Itilite is riding the wave of business trips finally returning, with its eyes on the U.S. market, while in Europe Valpas has raised some money to stamp out the problem of bedbugs ruining tourists' long-awaited holidays.
Matthew Parsons | 2 years ago
Hotels
Overnight shifts are usually bemoaned by those who work them, but that's not the case for Mikko Anetjärvi. He spends his nights on the lookout for something many of us only dream of seeing.
Danielle Hyams, Skift | 4 years ago
Finnair's latest response to the outbreak shows how quickly things can change and how difficult it is for a company to quantify the impact of a fast-changing external event. Only a month ago, the CEO was saying that coronavirus would have a "relatively limited" impact on the airline.
Reuters | 4 years ago
Less than a month ago, Finnair's CEO was saying the outbreak would have “relatively limited” impact on the airline’s financials. How quickly things have changed.