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TTC Special: The strange success of travel bubbles

Photo: Pixabay By Frank Martin Some of the so-called Trave Bubbles that financially speaking helped tourist destinations around the world, including some Caribbean islands during Covid-19 epidemic. This is a somewhat strange mechanism that demonstrates the human (and enterprise) tendency to seek innovations. That kind of search is crucial in nowadays tourism visibly destructive stage. Like other countries and regions, the Caribbean island of Barbados used “bubbles" it to limit without quarantine tourists from countries considered important. The Barbados s clients offer is to enjoy certain vacation time without risking the tedium of prolonged confinements with no risk for stability of tourist destinations. Nevertheless, Barbados since Wednesday September 8 has "discontinued" the travel bubble. "The decision to interrupt it was due to the increase in positivity rates and cases in many of our sister countries in the Caribbean," Barbados Medical Director Dr. Kenneth George told reporters. He explained that [...]

By |2023-02-13T16:47:42-04:0010 de September de 2021|Specials, Tourism|0 Comments

Face-to-Face Speed Networking Returns to WTM London

Face to Face Speed Networking Returns to WTM London. Photo: Official website of the event. A revamped version of the WTM Buyers’ Club Speed Networking is one of the major features lined up for this year’s WTM London. This year’s event is built upon an innovative hybrid format. The familiar physical event will take place at ExCeL London on Monday, November 1-Wednesday, November 3, 2021, and will be followed by WTM Virtual, streaming live on November 8-9, 2021. The speed networking sessions take place from 8.30am to 10am on all three days at the physical event. The new structure builds on the success of previous speed networking initiatives, maintaining the underlying principle of using five-minute sessions as a way to introduce buyers to exhibitors, matched by business needs, with a view to a longer meeting on-site or later. Each day’s Speed Networking session has a different focus. On Monday [...]

By |2021-09-08T20:52:52-04:008 de September de 2021|Events, Outstanding news|0 Comments

July passenger traffic boost, but well below pre-COVID levels

Because comparisons between 2021 and 2020 monthly results are distorted by the extraordinary impact of COVID-19, unless otherwise noted all comparisons are to July 2019, which followed a normal demand pattern

By |2021-09-03T21:03:58-04:003 de September de 2021|Transportation|0 Comments

Point of View: Italy Considers Opening Safe Travel Corridors

While travel agent associations are on the warpath to draw the Italian Tourism Ministry’s attention in order to get some help from a newly installed dicastery (abolished in the 1990s following a really insane referendum), newly-appointed Tourism Minister Massimo Garavaglia is moving someway

By |2021-09-03T20:53:12-04:003 de September de 2021|Outstanding news, Tourism|0 Comments

WTM London will be platform for exhibitors from across the globe

Together, the exhibitors represent a wide range of tourism companies and organisations, including tourist boards, hotel chains, cruise lines, DMCs and major attractions

By |2021-09-02T18:09:58-04:002 de September de 2021|Business, Events|0 Comments
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