Hong Kong Hotels and the impact of COVID-19, Episode 4 of Unity In Crisis, long-term effects of a pandemic on tourism and favourite places in the world to study abroad.

Hong Kong Hotels and the impact of COVID-19
Tuesday, 31st March 2020

This sentiment survey was specially designed to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the outlook for the Hong Kong hotel market. Over 90% respondents expect that the impact of COVID-19 will last for 3 months and more till H2 2020 >>

Unity In Crisis #4: Co-founder, Qunar
31 Mar 2020 : Each week, the crisis broadens and deepens, with entire countries now on lockdown, from South-east Asia to Europe, US, Africa and Australia, travel is indeed facing its biggest test with Covid-19, as it grounds to a virtual halt around the world >>

Int'l tourist arrivals could be down by 30% in 2020 vs LY
31 Mar 2020 : Taking into account the unparalleled travel restrictions across the world, the UNWTO expects that international arrivals will be down by 20% to 30% in 2020 when compared with 2019.

UNWTO stresses that these numbers are based on the latest developments as the global community faces up to social and economic challenge and should be interpreted with caution >>

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Nobody Asked for the Spanish Inquisition
Tuesday, 31st March 2020

We will all survive, unless we push our luck. William Paley’s Divine Watchmaker is clear on the subject: God may not exist, but something up there does, that cannot be controlled by mere humans.

It does not matter that each and everyone of us think we have an immense IQ and are better than the rest of mankind: We may be smarter than others, yet, in front of a PANDEMIC we are all equal and highly vulnerable >>

The Long-Term Effects of a Pandemic on Tourism
Exclusive Feature: In this 'new world', the advantages international brands had will be shrunk down. This is a phenomenon that already started about a decade ago with the big penetration of boutique, lifestyle hotels to the global lodging industry. The 'Millennials' prefer the local individual 'No Brand' brands with their connections to the specific area in which they operate over the sense of detachment >>

Crisis Management: Preventing and Responding to Flaws
Unprecedented volumes of email are slowing servers and crashing some systems, customer service lines for many businesses are completely overwhelmed no matter how well staffed they thought they were >>

Favourite Places in the World to Study Abroad
In a recent survey of over 30,000 international students, most told them that, when deciding where to study abroad, one chooses the country first over a university or specific type of program >>

Global Newsletter: March 30, 2020
Largest Hilton hotel in Asia-Pacific to be in Singapore, what brands need to know about WeChat channels marketing, how to run a smaller hotel profitably and welcome to the new normal >>