Coronavirus Travel News

Accor's aggressive push into the high-end luxury and lifestyle hotel segments with brands like Delano and Raffles position the company well — if analyst predictions of an early luxury demand recovery actually materialize.

Big league backers are seeing the potential of digital health passports, and not just for flying.

The slow winter travel season, delayed vaccination schedules, and people giving up on hotel jobs are pushing the hospitality sector unemployment figures up once again. More vaccines can speed up the recovery (the industry hopes).

It's hard to think of a profession more suited to this line of work, and the latest example of the travel industry rallying to help on the frontlines.

Many global airlines have reduced long-haul flights or exited markets altogether due to the pandemic, but more often than not their loyalty points have an expiration date. Now is a really good time for airlines to put customers first and adjust their valuable currency — or risk losing their loyalty.

The pandemic has produced unlikely partnerships between the hotel and office sectors, but the longevity is up for debate. The ghost kitchen pairing between hotels and an outside food operator may actually stick for years to come, as it solves a pre-pandemic revenue loss problem.

We often talk about Europe as a single travel destination, but it exists of 44 sovereign countries with an immensely heterogeneous tourism offering. As a result, the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic are also heterogeneous.

Arne's a fighter, and Marriott has a strong team in place while he continues to battle cancer.

Pandemic job cuts won't solve the industry's longstanding issue of needing a new generation of pilots to replace those retiring. Now is the time for the airlines to do the right thing — open the field to a more diverse and inclusive pool of talent as they recover from the pandemic.