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Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at Ace Group’s sale, a new kind of Olympics tourism, and New Mexico’s decade-long tourism campaign.
Rashaad Jorden | 3 weeks ago
Tourism
Get ready for a fusion of traditional French tourism and elite sports during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024. A lot of responsibility now rests with new hospitality provider, On Location.
Matthew Parsons | 3 weeks ago
Airline Weekly
Southwest Airlines appears set to make big gains from a planned expansion of LAX for the return of the Olympics to Los Angeles in five years.
2 months ago
Coronavirus
A largely closed-off international sporting event in China’s capital city means the historically fickle Olympic bump in hotel business is more likely to be an Olympic blip.
Cameron Sperance | 12 months ago
The relative quiet in Tokyo over the next few weeks for the Olympic Games will be closely watched for what the loss of crowds means for the environment — and travel's future, pehaps.
Kanupriya Kapoor, Reuters | 2 years ago
Business Travel
The CDC's recommendations are still somewhat confused, but the easing of these restrictions is a big step in the travel recovery.
David Shepardson, Reuters | 2 years ago
Pressure to contain the virus ahead of the Olympics is enormous, but only 3 percent of Japanese are vaccinated. In a bad omen, the World Economic Forum has canceled a planned August meeting in Singapore.
Antoni Slodkowski, Reuters | 2 years ago
Postponing the Games was dramatic, and the empty stands will only highlight that fact. But we've seen over the last year that you can still have compelling and safe competitions under controlled conditions, which is much a better thing than an international superspreader event.
Reuters | 2 years ago
An official announcement may still be weeks away, but a ban on foreign visitors is likely. The move would undermine more than a dozen years of Japanese effort to boost its international tourism. But the decision would be a sensible one under the circumstances.
David Dolan and Chris Gallagher, Reuters | 2 years ago
The Olympics games are set to begin in less than five months, but the spread of new coronavirus variants worldwide is worrying organizers. A ban would disappoint hundreds of thousands of expected spectators, but might be a good public health decision.
Chang-Ran Kim and Chris Gallagher, Reuters | 2 years ago