Competition
World’s tallest tower, Dubai’s ‘Burj Khalifa’ to light up with coronavirus donationsedit
The Times of India, The New Indian Express – Online
The skyscraper regularly features displays of solidarity with crisis tricken countries for Australia when bushfires ravaged parts of the country, and for China and Italy when they were hit hard by the Covid19 respiratory disease.
Three food and travel shows on Netflix to binge on in lockdown 3.0edit
CNBC TV18 – Online
The only entry on this list without a food connection has made it for one specific reason: Dark Tourist is the kind of show that will blow your mind, purely for the strength and uniqueness of its content. It follows New Zealand based journalist David Farrier who explores the subculture of dark tourism, which sees travellers flock to the worlds most unconventional travel destinations all of them with a history of death, destruction, tragedy or secrecy.
With fever checks and masks, worlds largest mall in Dubai reopensedit
The Hans India – Online
One of the worlds largest shopping mall at Dubai Highlights Clutching bags from designer boutiques in their gloved hands, customers are back at Dubai Mall, one of the worlds largest shopping havens that has reopened under strict safeguards against coronavirus.
When You Travel Next: 4 Things to do in Thailand!edit
Femina – Online
With tons of attractions, hot spots and activities on the menu in Thailand, a traveller is bound to be spoilt for choice. We help you narrow it down to 4 things you can do to make the most of your time in Thailand!
How China locked down internally for COVID19, but pushed foreign traveledit
The Economic Times – Online
There is new evidence to show that China locked down all domestic traffic internally by end January 2020 but pushed to open foreign travel till end March. Data from Tom Tom traffic index, a traffic location site that covers 416 cities across 57 countries show that as a result of this strategy, China, intentionally or otherwise, was able to lockdown its cities unknown to the world.
Faith Mantra: Survive Revive Thriveedit
Bw Hotelier, Business World – Online
The tourism business has almost completely come to a standstill in FY 202021. Almost all of Indias topperforming foreign source markets for tourism (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, China, Japan, Singapore, Russia, Italy, Spain), are severely impacted and are not likely to travel before FY 202122.
Industry
6 reasons to believe that Domestic Tourism will witness Strong Recovery Soon ater the Pandemic Endsedit
Bw Hotelier Business World – Online
The Travel and Tourism Industry as we know has registered unparalleled growth in the past few decades and has become one of the primary employment and income generators across the globe. But this pandemic is by far the worst crisis that has hit the industry impacting all segments domestic, inbound and outbound; and all verticals leisure, MICE, heritage, adventure and niche.
Hospitality industry seeks bailout packageedit
The Times of India – Online
Raising the demand during a first of its kind webinar held here on Thursday, representatives of the tour and hospitality industry requested principal secretary, tourism, Jitendra Kumar, who also heads culture and religious affairs department, to launch a relief package for the industry which is devastated by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Defining The Next Generation of The Tourism Industryedit
Bw Hotelier Business World – Online
Factories are shut. Shopping has stopped. Parks are closed. So much has changed in our daily lives, but the one industry that has been hit the hardest is tourism. We are a segment of the global economy that is directly involved with the movement of people. Now that has stopped, our lives in this industry have come to an uncomfortable screeching halt.
Specific
HKTB develops three-phase plan to reinvigorate Hong Kong tourismedit
Whereabouts – Online
The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) introduced the HKTB’s strategic framework of recovery plan. The Board has announced earlier that it will be allocating HK$400 million to support promotions by the trade. HKTB Executive Director Dane Cheng explained that the Board has devised a three-phase plan to reinvigorate Hong Kong tourism. The exact timeline will depend on the development of the pandemic.
Hong Kong on Resilience, Recovery, Relaunch modeedit
The Economic Times – Online
Hong Kong has devised a three-phase plan to reinvigorate Hong Kong tourism.
Worlds First Tourism Recovery Plan Announcededit
E Turbo News – Online
The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) is positioning itself to respond with an organized plan to welcome visitors and for revitalization as the world begins to slowly recover. To achieve this, HKTB organized a web conference on April 24 to provide the latest updates on tourism development and introduce the HKTB’s strategic framework of a tourism recovery plan. HKTB Chairman Dr. Y. K. Pang said that the COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to Hong Kong tourism and brought global tourism to a grinding halt.