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Thursday September 10, 2020

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Destinations

20 Most Searched Travel Destinations for Post Lockdown Vacation
As countries start to reopen for travelers, holidaymakers started to search for their next travel destination. 20 most searched destinations…

7 Indian Destinations For Solo Travel If You Are A Woman
Ladies! Don’t we all crave to shun our daily routines and travel the world to escape from the deadlines? We present 7 best places in India, which have time and again proved to be safe for female only travelers. Check it out!…

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Tours and Activities

'Virtual tourism can offer new opportunities for travel industry' -
Virtual travel, using advanced mathematical techniques and combining livestream video with existing photos and videos of travel hotspots, could help revitalise an industry that has been devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic, say researchers, including one of…

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Cruise

Cruise industry invests US$23.5 billion in green technology, says CLIA
Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) has released the Global Cruise Industry Environmental Technologies and Practices Report, produced by Oxford Economics. The report highlights the progress that the cruise industry has made toward the development of technologies and practices to achieve lower emissions and greater…

Does Your Insurance Still Cover Your Cruise? Always Check.
Buying trip insurance for a cruise is almost an automatic reaction for many cruisers, particularly during these uncertain times. Some readers, however, are learning the hard way that some insurance providers are no longer interested in covering their cruise vacations from interruptions and…

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Transportation

Airline Workers Brace As Federal Aid Runs Out This Month
Flight attendants, pilots and other airline employees hope a deadlocked Congress will agree to extend a federal payroll relief program and prevent mass…

Covid-19 and airline refunds: does the system need to change?
EU airlines are facing criticism for their handling of refunds during Covid-19. Should there be more clarity over the way airline refunds are dealt…

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Lodging

Abu Dhabi instructs all hotels to offer kosher meals following Israel, UAE agreement
 Authorities in Abu Dhabi sent a memo Tuesday instructing all hotels in the city to offer Kosher food and beverage options, anticipating a surge in Israeli and Jewish travelers following the landmark peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab…

Hotel companies are going to have to get creative amid COVD-19: Virgin Hotels CEO
Raul Leal, Virgin Hotels CEO, joins Yahoo Finance to talk about expanding his hotels amid COVID-19 and how Virgin Hotel layouts allow for social…

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Other and Odd

Prosecutors drop charges against cruise ship crew who killed polar bear to save a life
The man attacked suffered head injuries before two other guards shot the bear after making an effort to scare it…

Ibiza's 40-year party could finally be over
Hundreds of sweaty clubbers are crammed onto at the Glitterbox dance floor, soaking up the grooves as one of Ibiza's biggest party nights gets into full swing.…

Today in History

The Last Guillotine in France
In 1791, the French National Assembly was seeking a new method of execution. Former methods were considered too inhumane, such as the infamous "breaking on the wheel". Assembly member Joseph-Ignace Guillotin suggested the construction of a device to decapitate the accused with a steel blade. The guillotine was the official method of execution in France until the abolition of the death penalty in 1981. Its last usage was to execute a murderer, Hamida Djandoubi, on September 10,…

Mike’s 1-Minute Marketing Memos

You Market For Tomorrow

This is not an isolated case. Your business is running like a fine Swiss watch, when out of the blue comes some unexpected input that sets you back on your heels. It could be a mechanical failure, a force of nature, a change in personnel, or a runaway virus. Regardless of the source…

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The Incessant Traveler

New York is Not Going Down
by David Cogswell
Thursday September 10, 2020

I saw a Facebook post the other day of a story originally posted on LinkedIn entitled “NYC IS DEAD FOREVER. HERE'S…

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