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Articles tagged “trump”

Online Travel

The Largest IPO in History Just Happened and It Has a Huge Travel Angle

Booking.com, Airbnb, Marriott, and every high-end retail shop on the Champs-Élysées want to see the proliferation of Alipay and other digital payment services to capture the spending of Chinese travelers. But Alipay's key cross-border payments strategy, despite a record-setting IPO, has run into major snags.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 3 years ago

The Largest IPO in History Just Happened and It Has a Huge Travel Angle

Online Travel

What Trump’s WeChat Ban May Mean for the Travel Sector

Trump's ban on the Chinese superapp WeChat may turn out to be a mere annoyance for many Chinese travelers. But it could cause real harm to some U.S. travel organizations.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

What Trump’s WeChat Ban May Mean for the Travel Sector

Tourism

European Students Exempted From Travel Ban in First Sign of U.S. Reopening International Travel

The State Department appears to be softening its blanket travel ban on entry to the U.S., starting with European students and some family members of visa holders in the U.S.

Ted Hesson, Reuters | 4 years ago

European Students Exempted From Travel Ban in First Sign of U.S. Reopening International Travel

Tourism

Twitter, Others Take On Trump Admin Rule Requiring Visitors to U.S. to Disclose Social Media History

The war between tech companies and the White House hit another new level this week. The travel industry in the United States should be applauding the efforts on this one by Twitter and Reddit, especially when its business has been cratered by the pandemic.

David Shepardson, Reuters | 4 years ago

Twitter, Others Take On Trump Admin Rule Requiring Visitors to U.S. to Disclose Social Media History

Online Travel

Trump’s Social Media Executive Order Poses Threat to Airbnb, Tripadvisor, Google and Yelp

The liability protections that online travel businesses such as Airbnb, Google and Tripadvisor enjoy under the Communications Decency Act could be collateral damage in President Trump's effort to go after Twitter and Google for what he views as "censorship" or biased coverage.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Trump’s Social Media Executive Order Poses Threat to Airbnb, Tripadvisor, Google and Yelp

Airlines

A European Travel Ban to the U.S. Came At Least 5 Weeks Too Late: Here’s a Timeline of the Fallout

If airlines and travelers are counting on airport screenings and quarantines to be a effective counter-measures in the absence of a coronavirus vaccine, the CDC said these tactics will "have less impact" when transmissions are widespread. Everything depends on effective vaccines.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

A European Travel Ban to the U.S. Came At Least 5 Weeks Too Late: Here’s a Timeline of the Fallout

Coronavirus

Hotels Face Bigger Hit Than Post-9/11 and Great Recession Combined: Hospitality Official Warns

Will the U.S.government be able to bail out everyone? The line of businesses and people hoping for relief is getting very long.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Hotels Face Bigger Hit Than Post-9/11 and Great Recession Combined: Hospitality Official Warns

Coronavirus

Americans, Don’t Travel Abroad: U.S. State Department Gives Strongest Warning Yet

Where do we go next? That’s probably the question the tourism sector will be asking as a battered industry tries to comprehend and navigate such unprecedented travel restrictions on a global scale.

Xinyi Liang-Pholsena, Skift | 4 years ago

Americans, Don’t Travel Abroad: U.S. State Department Gives Strongest Warning Yet

Airlines

Unprecedented Times: Trump Bans Travel From Europe Because of Coronavirus

A U.S. travel ban from Europe, to be implemented in less than two days, will cause tremendous disruption. Is it the right move? And why was the UK excluded?

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 4 years ago

Unprecedented Times: Trump Bans Travel From Europe Because of Coronavirus

Tourism

Why Do U.S. Politicians Completely Ignore the Travel Industry in Election Season?

The travel industry is truly a diffused set of forces, both big business and people powered. Unfortunately it's easier for politicians to scare people with an imaginary foreign threat than articulate a vision for a better, more connected world.

Andrew Sheivachman, Skift | 4 years ago

Why Do U.S. Politicians Completely Ignore the Travel Industry in Election Season?