With Summer Tourism Comes a Spike in Crime in Barcelona
Joseph Wilson, Associated Press
Tourists are often the target of petty crime, but the situation in Barcelona seems to be escalating.
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Joseph Wilson, Associated Press
Tourists are often the target of petty crime, but the situation in Barcelona seems to be escalating.
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Dennis Schaal, Skift
If you think protest is futile, then you're wrong. Petitioners didn't think TripAdvisor went far enough to promote traveler safety, and they got the travel website to take stock of itself and make additional reforms.
3 months ago
Maria Lenhart, Skift
The recent terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka underscore the need for addressing traveler safety. While mitigating risk does not come with the same obligations for leisure travel advisors as it does for those on the corporate side, there are still steps they can take to protect clients.
4 months ago
Maria Jose Valero and Jim Silver, Bloomberg
At a time when Boeing faces intense criticism about its handling of its 737 Max aircraft, problems with Dreamliner manufacturing in South Carolina is most unwelcome news. The company must get to the heart of the production problems there immediately, and fix them.
4 months ago
Peter Robison and Margaret Newkirk, Bloomberg
Even defenders of the special relationship note that the FAA's inspection team is under-staffed and underfunded. Let's start there.
5 months ago
Madhu Unnikrishnan, Skift
The worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 Max fleet “out of an abundance of caution” is a break with the FAA’s traditional data-driven approach to accident investigations. Could this mean an end to the way safety decisions have been made?
5 months ago
Sarah Khan, Skift
Despite conflict and instability, tourism remains an important part of Kashmir's economy. But travelers should be cognizant of a lot more than safety if they choose to visit the region.
6 months ago
Alan Levin, Bloomberg
TSA employees in Atlanta, D.C., and Houston have been calling out sick in record numbers, as the government shutdown lingers on. The TSA is one of the more critical departments affected by the shutdown — how long can the mayhem last?
7 months ago
Allan Leibowitz, Skift
Agencies and venues have stepped up to the plate to meet rising safety and security concerns among meetings organizers. The challenge is to fulfill duty of care obligations without impacting the delegate experience.
8 months ago
Justin Bachman, Kyunghee Park and Christopher Jasper, Bloomberg
As we've remarked over the years, it's only a matter of time until a doofus with a drone knocks an airliner out of the sky and kills dozens or hundreds of people. In fact, it almost happened recently in Mexico.
8 months ago
Ellen Milligan, Bloomberg
Airlines need to find a way to better deal with drunk and virulently racist passengers. Ignoring troublemakers only ensure this problem will continue; authorities were alerted in only half of the incidents that took place last year.
8 months ago
Niniek Karmini, Associated Press
It's clear already that doomed Lion Air flight shouldn't have taken off given what we now know about the aircraft's problems. The pilots apparently were dealing with multiple failures simultaneously.
9 months ago