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Monthly Archives: February 2021
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Europe’s Complicated Path Out of the Pandemic: New Skift Research 🔒
Gondolas on the waters around Venice Gerhard Bögner / Pixabay
Skift Take: We often talk about Europe as a single travel destination, but it exists of 44 sovereign countries with an immensely heterogeneous tourism offering. As a result, the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic are also heterogeneous.
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The Asia City That Could Emerge Strongest From the Pandemic
Ho Chi Minh City: Asia’s next financial center in the making. www.mroosfotografie.nl / Visual Hunt
Skift Take: A new flare-up of Covid-19 cases in northern Vietnam does not change the fact the country has a lot going for it and that its commercial capital in the south, Ho Chi Minh City, is a rising star in Asia.
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Digital Health Passports Gain Traction as Countries Take Cues From Airlines
Airport technology provider SITA has successful trialled a new system with the Australian government that help airlines, airports and passengers share information on health tests or vaccinations. Caroline Voelker / Unsplash
Skift Take: It’s reassuring to see several destinations, including Australia with its hard-line stance on border restrictions, warm to the idea of digital health passports.
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The Top-Down Diversity Push That U.S. Tourism Desperately Needs Is Here
Discussions on the lack of diversity in U.S. travel are finally getting unstuck with major actions from the industry’s destination leaders and trade groups, including a new tourism diversity-focused organization. Monkey Business / Adobe
Skift Take: The first full-time, diversity-focused organization for U.S. travel launched this week as destination marketers, trade groups and publicists are also collaborating on solutions to equity, diversity and inclusion barriers in tourism. It’s long and shamefully overdue — but promising, since change begins from the C-suites down.
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Phuket’s Tourism Businesses Plan Private Vaccination Drive in Hopes of Reopening Thai Resort This Fall
Thailand’s resort island of Phuket is at one of its lowest economic points in recent history due to global travel restrictions. Tourism Authority of Thailand
Skift Take: The resort island of Phuket is looking to vaccinate locals as it scrambles to welcome tourists after facing one of its lowest economic points in history. Worthy effort, but it’s still too soon to see if it’s enough to lure back travelers.
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