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Good morning from Skift. It's Tuesday, April 5, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.
Rashaad Jorden | 2 months ago
Hotels
Adding Hilton as a client is a major boost to Amazon's healthcare business, which encompasses the increasingly popular telehealth practice many patients relied on during the pandemic to see their doctors.
Jeffrey Dastin, Reuters | 6 months ago
Airlines
Clear's previous experience vetting travelers and moving them quickly through airport security put it in an excellent position to take on the challenges of identity, health, and vaccination in the (hopefully) coming post-Covid panic world.
Jason Clampet | 7 months ago
Coronavirus
June isn't that far off, but EU states have multiple decisions to make and some technology infrastructure to build before this is a reality. We fear we will actually see health passes that fall very short of the goal of allowing safe travel for tourists and locals.
Reuters | 1 year ago
Tourism
There are inequalities around vaccine distribution. But that doesn't mean countries should say "oh well" and take actions which will increase public health risks, which is precisely what happens when masses of unvaccinated people travel across international borders.
Gabriela Baczynska, Reuters | 1 year ago
If airport coronavirus testing is going to be successful and protect the flying public, airlines, clinics and public health need to work hand in hand.
Ruthy Muñoz, Skift | 1 year ago
As of Sunday the hotel booking system was still broken, so we're going to trust the border official who called the rollout "an absolute joke" rather than listen to the hapless Hancock.
Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton, Reuters | 1 year ago
The fine print in this Tuesday report by Europe's top health agency is that border controls can sometimes be effective in delaying an epidemic at its start or in isolated regions. In other words, now that the pandemic is unleashed, many travel restrictions aren't worth the cost to society.
Francesco Guarascio, Reuters | 2 years ago
Having a robust wellness tourism industry built on science-based approaches will be a positive that can come from a damaging pandemic.
Xinyi Liang-Pholsena, Skift | 2 years ago
Mississippi's Gulf Coast has been devastated by hurricanes from time to time. Now its leaders are turning a pandemic into a possibly more painful man-made disaster.
Oliver Laughland, Guardian | 2 years ago
