Tag: Novel Coronavirus Impact
Hygiene highest priority for travellers: Skyscanner survey
Global travellers looking to book holiday accommodation in the post-Covid era prioritise sanitation and hygiene over price and location, according to a Skyscanner survey.
The...
Changi Airport deploys touch-free tech
Contactless check-in kiosks, as well as facial and iris recognition for immigration clearance, are part of heightened safety measures rolled out by Changi Airport,...
Trafalgar, Costsaver now run private group tours
The Travel Corporation's Trafalgar and sister brand Costsaver is offering private trips in Europe for groups of 12 or more, to ease travel anxiety...
Shangri-La Group helps the vulnerable in Asia get masked up
Some 21 Shangri-La hotels in South-east Asia and Sri Lanka are donating 12,500kg of used, clean bedsheets, duvet covers and pillowcases to local Non-Governmental...
TakeMeTour takes Thai farms online to ride out tourism downturn
Peer-to-peer online activity marketplace TakeMeTour has established an online retail platform to help Thai farmers and gardeners, once dependent on tourist dollars, to better...
Amadeus builds recovery playbooks for hoteliers
Amadeus has released an eBooks collection, designed to help hoteliers navigate the path to recovery post-pandemic.
The eBooks are created in partnership with a trio...
Bleisure extensions unlikely, modifications to insurance policies expected: CTMs
Bleisure is not forbidden, but corporate travel managers expect demand tagged to overseas business trips to be soft, as more governments negotiate bilateral green...
Trip.com and partners take information, promotion-driven global initiative to save travel
China-based OTA giant Trip.com has announced an industry-wide initiative that will support the drive for new safety and hygiene standards for aviation, hospitality, tourism...
Indian hoteliers plan domestic revival as government eases lockdown
Hoteliers in India are looking to the local travel market for a business revival as the government lifts restrictions on hotel operations in safe...
APTCO eases air ticket changes for airlines
ATPCO has unveiled a new automated Emergency Flexibility tool that will be adopted by the airline industry from this week to enable them to...
