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Hospitality's Devastating Loss and 11 Other Coronavirus Travel Stories This Week

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Dennis Schaal

Photo Credit: Pictured is Soho Hotel London on September 1, 2013. Many displaced hospitality workers could be valuable employees in other sectors.. https://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-light/9677757209/in/photolist-fKc33V-6BTzWm-pDMWid-p3Njv2-7nsfuu-xWeyze-fKc2HB-6hdDJS-tFrc4-6EwMF5-dMbcoU-82YTbU-pDawFa-nTx5uC-9Hrwqx-npNpqs-nGgEtj-nGi7hn-npNLF5-npNux1-nJ5zit-nGgDVW-9ePqQ-nGi2eg-npN4uX-nEfp8q-nGi4VD-nEfko1-9urFU-nGhYkR-nG14g2-nJ5oin-nG13ta-npNv6g-nG19Zr-nGhZfr-nJ5rLK-nGhRcH-npMZ3j-npNCuc-npNFqx-npNqHB-npNAHX-nEgbEN-nFZJaB-nGhHFk-nGhDVz-sb3ug6-sqcQh3-bq31mE Flickr.com / Alan Light

Skift Take

In coronavirus-related travel stories this week, Skift covered hospitality job losses, the stalled travel recovery, how Covid-19 upset megatrends, and whether airlines can bar passengers without masks.

Hospitality’s Devastating Loss of Talent Should Be Your Gain: Great hoteliers are a different breed with skill sets that are hard to find in other industries. While hospitality has cut talent to the bone, other growing industries can benefit from a very unique suite of people skills, operational acumen, and soft diplomacy. They are worth consideration. See How the Tourism Rebound Is All But Stalled: Skift Recovery Index: To find the paths out of this crisis, more and better data really is key. We have added more data points to better track the travel industry’s recovery, but it’s not particularly good news. Rethinking

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