Coronavirus

Opinion / Distribution

Travel’s last big trauma offers few clues for the future

By Maggie Rauch | March 17, 2020

Both 9/11 and the coronavirus pandemic hit travel hard and fast - but the fallout from coronavirus could be much more severe. Read More

News / Online

We haven't been here before

By Kevin May | March 16, 2020

The industry needs smart thinking, collective responsibility and action from brands, an ability to be realistic about how to dig itself out the various holes it will inevitably find itself in and, most... Read More

News / Distribution

Aviation body says coronavirus could bankrupt most airlines in three months

By Linda Fox | March 16, 2020

The membership organization is calling for urgent “coordinated” government and industry action in light of the impact of coronavirus on the travel industry. Read More

From Our Partners / Technology

Looking beyond the coronavirus chicane to accelerate growth for travel

By Apurva Chamaria - RateGain. | March 16, 2020

This is not the first time in this century that the travel and tourism industry is at the center of a crisis and has to deal with losses and have to adapt and survive. Read More

News / Distribution

"Nothing will be the same": How Italian hoteliers are coping with coronavirus fallout

By Mitra Sorrells | March 16, 2020

Giancarlo Carniani - Phocuswright analyst, hotelier and president of the hotel association in Florence, Italy - explains why hoteliers are "furious" at Booking.com and why the hospitality industry will... Read More

Opinion / Technology

Coronavirus and economic uncertainty: Technology strategies hoteliers should evaluate to weather the storm

By Matt Melymuka and Andrew Bartusiak - PeakSpan Capital | March 16, 2020

As operational budgets come under increasing scrutiny and hoteliers are forced to cut spending in various areas, forward-thinking organizations should consider increasing investment in strategic... Read More

News / Online

InPhocus, episode 1 - Coronavirus came from nowhere and turned 2020 on its head

By PhocusWire | March 13, 2020

Fronting the show for its debut are PhocusWire's Kevin May and Charuta Fadnis, Phocuswright's head of research. They're joined by their boss and Phocuswright's managing director, Pete Comeau. Read More

Interview / Online

Sounding Off: All that talk about being brilliant communicators should be real

March 13, 2020

Now that marketing is all over the place for a few months, communications has to be the channel that travel brands focus their efforts on. Read More

Opinion / Technology

Will the coronavirus outbreak force hotels to adapt to new technologies quicker?

By Gregor Amon - Hotel Data Cloud | March 13, 2020

When it comes to hotels, you can bet that hotel owners and managers are reeling, trying to come up with a plan to address coronavirus, but more importantly, to have strategies to recoup their losses... Read More

News / Online

Online travel stocks have fallen 38% in 2020 (mainly due to the coronavirus)

By Steven Lerner | March 13, 2020

Most of the value has been decimated due to the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, with bookings declining and analysts anticipating a long-term impact. Read More

News / Online

Digital marketing in the age of coronavirus - what travel brands need to know

By Mitra Sorrells | March 12, 2020

The rapidly changing impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus require digital travel marketers to evaluate and update their strategies. Read More

News / Online

Online booking rates for activities halve and cancellations jump by a fifth due to coronavirus

By Kevin May | March 11, 2020

The gloomy business outcome of the spread of the virus to more than 100 countries around the world, including some of Europe's big tourist hotspots such as Italy, which is now on lockdown, has ignited... Read More