Digital. Season 2, Episode 30. The Top 10 Travel News Stories of the Week: Day In, Day Out
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- Italy created a National Tourism Fund to invest up to €2 billion to help the hospitality industry.
- According to Ian Schrager, founder of the Ian Schrager Company, the industry will return to “not a new normal, but the same normal we’ve always had.”
- Research has found that an old tuberculosis vaccine for newborns could also protect against COVID-19.
- Radisson and Zoom partnered to offer hybrid online conferences.
- After 30th September, Google Meet will limit the meeting time to 60 minutes on free plans.
- Twitter is experimenting with the idea to let people record and send voice direct messages directly in the app
- How will The Hotels of the Future look like? Anthropocentric, Technocentric, and Hybrid. Here’s my POW: https://hoteltechreport.com/news/hotels-of-the-future
- Amazon launched “Explore,” a platform with sightseeing tours of several destinations. The feature is still in beta and by invitation only.
- “Koddi and Tripadvisor,” Koddi blog states, “have partnered to launch a recovery initiative that will provide a 20% rebate on all Tripadvisor Sponsored Placements spend through Koddi’s platforms from October 1 through December 31, 2020.”
- A US man was sued by The Sea View Resort under the Thailand strict anti-defamation laws and he risks up to two years in jail. The man accused the resort of “modern-day slavery” on a TripAdvisor’s review.
