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Adventure travel suppliers expect business to be down 40% in 2020

By Linda Fox | April 20, 2020

The coronavirus has hit the adventure travel industry just as hard as other segments with suppliers saying they have seen a 63% drop in demand in Q2 of 2020. Read More

News / Online

Tiqets CEO moves to president role, Laurens Leurink steps in

By Kevin May | April 20, 2020

Leurink was most recently CEO of medical technology brand Docly, based in Scandinavia, but he has an extensive background in travel technology stretching back to 2008. Read More

Opinion / Distribution

What experiences providers can do now to maximize their downtime

By Chris Atkin - Rezdy | April 17, 2020

Tours and activities brands that use their time as an opportunity to innovate will be in a better position post-COVID-19. Read More

Opinion / Distribution

The best guess for the future of travel is just a guess

By Christian Watts - Magpie Travel | April 16, 2020

Nobody knows what will happen next week, never mind three years from now. Where are you getting this data from to form your future predictions? Read More

News / Online

Airbnb takes further COVID-19 protection measures with $1B loan

By Kevin May | April 15, 2020

The support comes just a week after it announced a funding round - a combination or debt and equity securities - from Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners, also to the tune of $1 billion. Read More

News / Online

More than 530,000 travel and tourism industry workers laid off or furloughed

By Mitra Sorrells | April 15, 2020

A new online tool is tracking layoffs, furloughs and pay cuts across the global travel and tourism industry. Read More

News / Online

Tripadvisor, Airbnb and many others switch to virtual tours and activities

By Kevin May | April 13, 2020

As demand for tours and activities has fallen away to almost nothing in many countries around the world, a string of brands are putting their efforts into temporarily digitizing their products. Read More

News / Technology

Destination X - Five coronavirus recovery strategies for the tourism industry

By PhocusWire | April 7, 2020

The industry has the chance to reset and rethink as it looks to a future beyond COVID-19 - Destination X is a way to understand that opportunity. Read More

News / Online

Airbnb gets $1B investment to mitigate coronavirus hit

By Jill Menze | April 6, 2020

The investment from Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners will help the home-share giant manage the fallout from the COVID-19 coronavirus. Read More

News / Online

InPhocus, episode 4 - A jolt to make us all think

By PhocusWire | April 3, 2020

WebInTravel's Yeoh Siew Hoon discusses the impact of COVID-19 and how its arrival is giving brands and workers the opportunity to consider how they might emerge in better shape. Read More

News / Technology

InPhocus, episode 3 - Living with the virus, thinking about a reset for tourism

By PhocusWire | March 27, 2020

Destination specialist Doug Lansky to gives his account of contracting coronavirus and shares his perspective on the current climate for destinations and what could (or should) happen next. Read More

Opinion / Online

Tours are at an absolute low - here’s how they can recover after COVID-19

By Alex Govoreanu - Questo | March 26, 2020

It's starting to look like a perfectly terrifying mix between the Spanish Flu and the Great Depression, with the tours and activities sector likely to never be the same again. Read More

News / Distribution

Youth and student travel sector looks to previous crises for coronavirus recovery clues

By Linda Fox | March 25, 2020

In its latest analysis of the business impact of COVID-19, WYSE says that although every crisis is different, longer term youth and student travel was less impacted by the financial crash than... Read More