Coronavirus Travel News

Hotel leaders can expect to juggle new roles as travel returns — namely, taking a more community-inclusive approach to management and incorporating lifestyle guest experiences on site.

Hilton’s Confirmed Connecting Rooms feature is a win for leisure travelers looking for larger spaces when booking group travel this summer. But it also aims to make hotels a viable option once again for larger families who may have already decamped for the likes of Airbnb.

Europe is finally seeing its fortunes turning. Almost the whole continent saw cases dropping rapidly in May, with an immediate effect on travel's recovery. France, Italy, Spain, and Germany are the big winners, but the UK is on the eve of a contraction in our score.

Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta lending some clout to this latest U.S. Travel Association campaign could sway straggling states to relax their restrictions on business meetings, but nothing moves fast in a pandemic.

As the travel recovery looks to ramp up for summer travel, a pilot shortage isn't helping any. The time to invest in pilots is at the pilot training level by making it easier to get loans, financing, and scholarships.

Remote work is here to stay. And that's a good thing for the travel industry as it will create a large market of long-term travelers that live and work anywhere. These digital nomads have the potential to be a small and mighty traveler type that are well worth understanding.

KLM forged ahead with its goal to halve carbon emissions by the end of the decade during the pandemic. It's making big investments in sustainable fuels and new jets with the hope that the European travel recovery is right around the corner.