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Articles tagged “world cup”

Business Travel

Remote Work Tech Startups Offer Quick Fix for Travel’s Labor Crisis

Governments around the world desperately need to fill vacant travel and tourism jobs. An emerging corporate-relocation-on-steroids model may help them staff up their airports and hotels, but may prove to be a short-term solution that fails to address more deep-rooted problems.

Matthew Parsons | 2 years ago

Remote Work Tech Startups Offer Quick Fix for Travel’s Labor Crisis

Airlines

Why Qatar Airways Is Preparing for ‘Pain’ During World Cup in Its Country

Qatar Airways will cut flying, and may lose money, during the World Cup in Doha later this year. But that may not matter as the country seeks to boost its brand with the event.

Edward Russell | 2 years ago

Why Qatar Airways Is Preparing for ‘Pain’ During World Cup in Its Country

Hotels

Accor to Recruit 12,000 Overseas Temp Workers in Time for Qatar World Cup

While operating 65,000 empty rooms in apartments and homes may be a logistical challenge even for Europe's largest hotel operator, Accor seeks to hire enough people to manage the operations.

Andrew Mills, Reuters | 2 years ago

Accor to Recruit 12,000 Overseas Temp Workers in Time for Qatar World Cup

Online Travel

Chase Bank Tees Up Consumer Travel Portal and More Top Stories This Week

In Skift's top stories this week, Chase pushes further into travel as a commerce category, investors view Instagram as a bigger platform for selling travel, and Qatar may be forced to prioritize World Cup fans over other visitors.

Mary Ann Ha | 2 years ago

Chase Bank Tees Up Consumer Travel Portal and More Top Stories This Week

Business Travel

Daily Podcast: Business Travel Ignores Inflation

Good morning from Skift. It's Wednesday, June 1, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Rashaad Jorden | 2 years ago

Daily Podcast: Business Travel Ignores Inflation

Tourism

Qatar May Give Preference to World Cup Ticket Holders Over Other Tourists

At a time when every destination in the world is throwing its doors open to foreign tourists, accommodation-strapped Qatar may have to deny entry to ticketless tourists when the World Cup kicks off in the country in November.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 2 years ago

Qatar May Give Preference to World Cup Ticket Holders Over Other Tourists

Airlines

Gulf Carriers to Operate Shuttle Flights to Doha for World Cup

Not only would the arrangement help ease pressure on Doha, which has been struggling with limited accommodation facilities for the World Cup, but could also boost Qatar's ties with Saudi Arabia and allies following the restoration of diplomatic relations by the four Arab states with Doha.

Andrew Mills and Maher Chmaytelli, Reuters | 2 years ago

Gulf Carriers to Operate Shuttle Flights to Doha for World Cup

Tourism

Doha Is Most Searched Destination on 2022 World Cup Interest

As football fans from around the world make a beeline to catch their favorite stars in action, Doha becomes the top trending destination. However, being the most geographically-compact World Cup host comes with its own set of challenges.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 2 years ago

Doha Is Most Searched Destination on 2022 World Cup Interest

Tourism

Top Qatar Tourism Official on the World Cup as a Springboard for Future

As it prepares to host Middle East's first-ever FIFA World Cup, Qatar expects the event to offer unique marketing potential to place the destination firmly on the tourism map. But for a country whose pre-Covid arrivals stood at 2.1 million in 2019, a goal of 1.5 million tourists for the two months of the tournament sounds overly ambitious.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 2 years ago

Top Qatar Tourism Official on the World Cup as a Springboard for Future

Tour Operators

Qatar’s Tour Operators Prepare for World Cup Despite Safety Concerns for LGBTQ Fans

Although Qatari tourism officials are projecting a welcoming image for their country, it will take more than one more tournament to prove it. The answer would come with the treatment of LGBTQ visitors later on when Qatar is out of the spotlight.

Rashaad Jorden | 2 years ago

Qatar’s Tour Operators Prepare for World Cup Despite Safety Concerns for LGBTQ Fans