If you build it, they will come: Why infrastructure is crucial to tourism growth and competitiveness
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These are the countries looking to subsidize holidays after COVID-19
Thursday 4th of June 2020
Looking for a good-value break after weeks or even months in lockdown? This might be the news you’ve been waiting for – around the world, some governments hope to subsidize people’s holidays to revive tourism. (Some plans are already in place while other proposals are in development.)
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An epidemiologist and an exposure scientist explain: how to stay safe when flying
Monday 25th of May 2020
We don’t know about you, but we’re ready to travel. And that typically means flying.
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COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 25 May
Monday 25th of May 2020
1. How COVID-19 is affecting the globe
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Climate change risks moving this restaurant from Italy to Switzerland – without shifting a brick
Wednesday 20th of May 2020
Rifugio Guide del Cervino is a bar and restaurant atop the Plateau Rosa, a glacial ridge in the Italian Alps. Or at least, it was. Climate change is moving it inexorably towards Switzerland as the glacier on which it sits steadily melts.
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International tourism is set to plunge by 80% this year – but some regions could recover more quickly
Wednesday 20th of May 2020
COVID-19 has closed hotels and grounded planes for many weeks. Now the human cost of this standstill is coming into focus.
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Drones, disinfectant, distancing – Europe’s beaches open up
Wednesday 20th of May 2020
As parts of Europe take tentative steps out of lockdown, a trip to the beach now involves a few additional extras: face masks, disinfectant and social distancing.Countries such as Greece, Italy and Spain are heavily reliant on tourism. But during the coronavirus pandemic, many beaches have been off-limits. With summer approaching, local trippers are returning to some of Europe’s sandy hotspots – but much has changed.
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Britain’s ‘transport revolution’ could see 14 million people start cycling
Tuesday 19th of May 2020
Britain could experience a transport revolution sparked by the coronavirus pandemic with up to 14 million people ready to swap cars for bikes, British Cycling believes.
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COVID-19: Top stories on the coronavirus pandemic on 18 May
Monday 18th of May 2020
1. WHO Assembly meets online
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Italy looks to reopen borders next month as lockdown measures ease
Sunday 17th of May 2020
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte outlined a further loosening of movement restrictions on Saturday, including opening borders to travellers from Europe from next month to unwind one of the world’s most rigid coronavirus lockdowns.
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Iceland will reopen tourism for June 15, with mandatory COVID-19 tests on arrival
Friday 15th of May 2020
The prime minister of Iceland has announced plans to reopen the country’s borders to tourists by June 15.
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How to travel in Europe in the era of coronavirus
Friday 15th of May 2020
The European Commission unveiled a series of measures aimed at ensuring people can start travelling safely across the continent again as governments try to revive tourism and airline industries brought to a halt by the coronavirus.
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5 ways global travel will change before we find a COVID-19 vaccine
Thursday 14th of May 2020
With the world at a standstill, your next holiday probably seems like a lifetime away.
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These countries are making ‘travel bubbles’ for post-lockdown tourism
Thursday 14th of May 2020
As countries begin to ease lockdown measures in order to kickstart their economies, all eyes are on how international borders will reopen, thereby enabling business and tourism to resume.
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How major cities are trying to keep people walking and cycling after the lockdown
Thursday 14th of May 2020
COVID-19 has radically changed our travel habits in just a matter of weeks. Walking and cycling are up, as people enjoy their daily exercise or take essential journeys they might otherwise have made by public transport. Cycle-to-work schemes have seen a 200% increase in the number of bicycle orders, while car use is roughly 40% of what it was in mid-February as more people work from home. Air pollution in cities has duly fallen rapidly, with nitrogen oxide pollution down 70% in Manchester, England.
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Caribbean tourism has been decimated by COVID-19. But the private sector can cushion the blow
Thursday 7th of May 2020
• Most Caribbean countries will be exposed to the sudden drop in tourism.
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Coronavirus: Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia create ‘travel bubble’ to ease restrictions
Thursday 7th of May 2020
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will open their borders to each others’ citizens from May 15, creating a Baltic “travel bubble” within the European Union amid an easing of pandemic restrictions, their prime ministers said on Wednesday.
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Here’s what travelling could be like after COVID-19
Wednesday 6th of May 2020
• Airlines, travel companies and the tourism sector as a whole face an unprecedented challenge from the coronavirus pandemic.
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From lockdown to locked in, here’s what post-pandemic travel could look like
Tuesday 5th of May 2020
At first glance, COVID-19 seemed to be a shared global experience, in terms of both the incidence of the disease and how countries responded. But now it has become clear that countries are diverging significantly in terms of strategy and outcomes. This means that, as the world exits from lockdowns, it will enter another difficult phase: Lock-ins that severely limit international travel.
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Coronavirus and aviation: Why is air cargo grounded when the world needs it most?
Thursday 30th of April 2020
Back when things were “normal”, passenger flights did much of the heavy lifting for the transport of air cargo. The vast passenger networks enabled the efficient distribution of the global supply chain to connect every corner of the globe and high-frequency schedules were able to meet the expectations for fast delivery from the booming e-commerce market.
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COVID-19: How can airports help in the fight against future pandemics?
Tuesday 28th of April 2020
We are witnessing perhaps the biggest crisis of the 21st century. Declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, COVID-19 has affected every aspect of life worldwide. Airports, which ferry millions of passengers every day, unwittingly became the gateway for this contagion.
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Spain begins a ‘new normal’ as children are allowed to play outside for the first time in six weeks
Monday 27th of April 2020
On foot and with bicycles, skateboards and scooters, Spanish children went outside at last on Sunday, emerging from their homes for the first time after six weeks of living under one of Europe’s strictest coronavirus lockdown.
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London bus travel now free after 20 drivers die from COVID-19
Monday 20th of April 2020
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has made all bus travel free and told passengers to only board by the middle doors in a bid to protect bus drivers, after 20 of them died from the coronavirus.
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Infographic: COVID-19 causes an unprecedented decline in air traffic
Wednesday 1st of April 2020
Flight tracking data from website Flightradar24 shows the scale of disruption COVID-19 is causing to the global airline industry. The pandemic has resulted in widespread government-imposed travel restrictions while many airlines have grounded substantial portions of their fleets around the world. That caused an unprecedented decline in global air traffic over the past two weeks.
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Global COVID-19 response has slashed CO2 emissions – here’s how to keep them low
Thursday 26th of March 2020
How do you respond to a crisis? It’s obvious that the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been dramatically different to anything provoked by repeated scientific warnings about climate change. The many organisations that declared climate emergencies throughout 2019 and 2020 have so far enacted nothing like the scale and speed of action to limit the spread of coronavirus.
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How to move more people in fewer vehicles – today
Tuesday 24th of March 2020
Advocates of autonomous mobility are looking forward to the day when zero-emission, shared autonomous vehicles deliver services that dramatically reduce urban congestion and pollution. But as the mass deployment of autonomous vehicles seems farther and farther off, it is important to point out that we don’t have to wait for autonomy to realize many of the efficiencies that shared mobility can provide.