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Thursday August 20, 2020

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Destinations

Hawaii Will Not Open to Tourists Until at Least October
With more positive COVID-19 cases in the state this month than the entire period from March to July, Hawaii’s governor extends the quarantine requirement for out-of-state visitors.…

Croatia, Ecuador and Ghana get the WTTC Safe Travels Stamp
Croatia, Ecuador and Ghana are the latest in a long line of major destinations to use the world's first ever global safety and hygiene stamp, launched recently by the World Travel & Tourism Council…

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Cruise

Kicked Off: Cruise Line Boots Guests For Ignoring New Protocols
A group of passengers aboard the MSC Grandiosa has been kicked off the ship for violating new protocols put in place regarding shore…

How to Social Distance Effectively on a Cruise?
Cruise and travel tips on how to effectively social distance on a cruise vacation. A guide on helping you keep safe on the cruise…

Reliable, Rapid Tests Needed to Drive Cruise Restart, Says UnCruise CEO
“We need reliable, rapid testing,” said Dan Blanchard, CEO of UnCruise, that saw its attempted restart in Alaska last just a few days. As the first small-ship operator back into the market in Alaska at the start of the month, the cruise operator had asked guests to get tested for COVID-19 within 72 hours of…

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Transportation

U.S. imposes sanctions on two UAE-based companies for aiding Iran's biggest airline
The Trump administration slapped fresh sanctions on two United Arab Emirates-based companies for providing material support to Iran’s largest airline, the Treasury Department said…

American Airlines halting service to 15 small cities after federal aid runs out in October
American Airlines said Thursday it plans to cut service to 15 small U.S. cities with low demand in October after the terms of federal aid requiring the flights…

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Lodging

Mexico’s Hotel Booking Momentum Hits 150-Day High On SiteMinder’s World Hotel Index
Data by SiteMinder, the global hotel industry's leading guest acquisition platform, today reveals a steady recovery for Mexico's accommodation industry, as the country surpasses 65 percent of its 2019 booking levels for the first time since…

Best Western CEO says Airbnb can't promise the cleanliness hotels can during pandemic
The CEO of Best Western makes the case that hotel chains are safer and cleaner than Airbnbs right…

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Other and Odd

Should Anyone Travel For Pleasure During COVID-19? 5 Rules For Responsible Road Trips
Should anyone be traveling for pleasure right now? This is the question on my mind as we enter month six of quarantine here in the Bay Area of California. When our local shelter-in-place was mandated, I had just returned from Austin, Texas and before that, Mexico…

Not being able to travel is officially making us miserable
Fed up about the fact that all those holidays you thought you’d be going on this year have been postponed, disrupted or cancelled? Well, you’re definitely not alone if your lack of travel plans has left you feeling lower than you’d…

Today in History

The Assassination of Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist, and one of the key leaders of the Russian October Revolution. In the Communist Party, Trotsky was second in stature only to Lenin. His opposition to the rise of Joseph Stalin, however, earned him powerful enemies. Trotsky was cast out of the Communist party and deported from…

TRO SMITH

How to Get Creative in Tricky Times

Are you still wearing your hair the way you did after high school?

Do you eat the same thing for breakfast every single day?

While there’s comfort in sticking to habits and styles that work, the thing I’ve found in this pandemic is that trying something new and different works…

  — Travel Research Online
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Mike’s 1-Minute Marketing Memos

The Rolling Who?

The Rolling Stones is a rock group… a really old rock group. They are still plying their trade. After nearly 50 years of rocking and rolling, they still manage to get audiences up and tapping their feet. Incredible! They still have the juice.

Here’s a past quote from the New York Times when the “boys” were preparing to make another appearance at Madison Square Garden:

”Rock’n roll requires a certain amount of energy,” said Mr. Jagger. “You just can’t do rock’n roll sitting on a bicycle going 10-miles an hour. You really have to wind the energy level up – that’s part of the main ingredient. It’s not like you have to be a brilliant musician, but you need a kind of explosive, kind of usable, energy…

  — Travel Research Online
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The Incessant Traveler

COVID Strikes UnCruise Adventures, or Did It?
by David Cogswell
Thursday August 20, 2020

UnCruise Adventures, an operator of small-ship cruises, had a passenger who tested positive for COVID-19 at the Juneau airport and it forced the company to cancel the cruise four days into it, and then to cancel its whole season, including four more Alaska cruises that were scheduled to take place over 10 weeks this summer.

The incident cost UnCruise Adventures millions of dollars and deprived many people of their planned trips. And it’s still not possible to say for sure if the passenger was really infected.

— Travel Research Online
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