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Wednesday June 24, 2020

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Destinations

Canadian Government Pledges $70 Million To Encourage Domestic Summer Travel
If you’ve been putting your summer travel plans on hold, you may want to reconsider. The Canadian government is encouraging citizens to hit the road (with safety and physical distancing in mind) and discover the beauty and adventure that awaits them in their very own backyard.…

Demand for Beach Vacations Over July 4 ‘Stronger Than Ever,’ Vrbo Data Shows
Americans looking to get away for July 4 are overwhelmingly booking relaxing, toes-in-the-sand-type destinations, according to data from home booking site Vrbo shared with Travel +…

Puerto Rico opening to travelers on July 15
Puerto Rico will open its tourism sector to all travellers from July 15. Currently, the destination's popular attractions and tourist locations are open for Island residents who can enjoy the natural beauty and the hospitality of the travel industry with certain…

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Cruise

Why can you get on a plane but not a cruise ship during the pandemic?
We talked with two doctors from USF about the differences between boarding a plane and boarding a cruise…

American Cruise Lines Targets July 12 For First Sailing
American Cruise Lines is now aiming to be the first cruise operator back on U.S. waterways with its July 12 departure on the lower Mississippi River,…

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Transportation

With little oversight, patchwork of airline coronavirus policies leaves flyers wary
Tony Scott boarded an American Airlines flight May 25 from Los Angeles to Dallas. It was a trip he felt he had to take despite concerns about the coronavirus. His son, who lives in Texas, was having health…

Iceland Is Getting Another New Airline
Airlines may be struggling to survive the industry’s worst-ever downturn, but investors in Iceland reckon the time is ripe to launch a brand new…

As States Reopen, Airlines Are Launching Fare Sales for Winter Travel
Both Southwest and Alaska are running deals starting at…

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Lodging

Five Programming Ideas That Hotels Can Consider For Social Distancing (And How To Market Them)
As the world begins to reopen and rebuild following the devastation of Covid-19, it’s no secret that hospitality brands face a daunting journey back to the mountaintop. In fact, the hotel experience we knew three months ago may very well never look the same again, or at the very least for the next couple of…

The best hotels in Tybee Island
We rounded up top Tybee Island hotels that include three-star accommodations and up, are well-located and rated, and can be found for close to $100 per night to…

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Other and Odd

EU Travel Ban For Americans: What This Means For Travel In France
It seems increasingly likely–according to the New York Times–that travelers from the U.S. will not be allowed to enter on 1 July, as the EU re-opens its international borders. This is likely to have serious ramifications for the French economy but possibly not as much as the reopening of borders with the U.K., whose visitors to France outnumber Americans by 3 to 1.…

6 Travel Shows to Help Keep Your Wanderlust Alive
Are you an adventure traveler or foodie traveler or even a bucket-list traveler sitting around thinking, “Well, I’ll never travel again”? With travel restrictions still in place, it seems like it’ll take months before travel will resume back to its regularly scheduled programming.…

Today in History

Dancing Mania Breaks Out in Germany
On this day in 1374, a severe outbreak of "dancing mania", also known as "St. John's Dance" or "dancing plague", occurred in Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany. This particular outbreak soon spread across the European continent, as far as Italy, Luxembourg and France. Dancing mania involves men and women breaking into frenzied, erratic dancing - dancing which continues until they physically collapse from exhaustion. The dancing proved highly contagious and overtook entire townships. No one is sure what caused dancing mania - ideas put forward today include physiological and sociological…

Press Releases of Interest

Help Us Get the California AB 5 Business License Requirement Extended!
Alexandria, VA, June 24, 202 - In 2019, travel advisors in California were granted an exemption from onerous independent contractor (IC) regulations in a legislative bill named Assembly Bill (AB) 5, which was signed into law by Governor Newsom and became effective on January 1, 2020. This law allows independent advisors in the travel industry to continue to work as they had in the past provided they are themselves a registered seller of travel in California, or covered by a registered seller of travel, and they must have a business license as required by their local municipality (city, town, county, etc).…

DULUTH TRAVEL CEO PUTTING EMPLOYEES OVER PROFIT
Duluth, GA, June 23rd, 2020- Arthur Salus, the CEO of Duluth Travel, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Company, was interviewed by a travel industry news journalism company about ‘The Future Of Travel Management Companies’. Dozens of TMCs’ owners were interviewed for this article and the majority had a similar future, becoming a smaller…

Katarina Line Launches 2020 Season With 20% Off All Cruises as Croatia Reopens Borders to European Tourism
Croatia’s award-winning DMC and small ship cruise company Katarina Line has announced the launch of its 2020 season following Croatia’s official reopening of its borders to travel from European Union nations. With regularly scheduled departures as of June 20, Katarina Line is offering 20% off per person on all 2020…

Point-to-Point

Which Ships Will Be The First to Cruise? (Part 1)
by Steven Frankel
Wednesday June 24, 2020

In an interview with Cruise Critic, Carnival Corporation CEO Arnie Donald said, “It's too soon to tell when ships will return to service. If we let the science community and the medical community do their thing in the coming weeks, there'll be more alignment around what the most effective protocols are to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

Here’s my take, that’s based on what we already know. Among the most useful sources of information that are already available is the May issue of Wired magazine that published the story, “27 Days in Tokyo Bay: What Happened on the Diamond Princess?”(https://www.wired.com/story/diamond-princess-coronavirus-covid-19-tokyo-bay/). This is must reading for any cruise enthusiasts trying to decide what it will take for them to resume cruising.

Upgrading their ships and health practices…

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Mike’s 1-Minute Marketing Memos

First vs Last Impressions

“You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.” This advice may be accurate and a valid motto to consider, but it does not paint the entire…

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