Airbnb secures $1 billion investment, stay home today: #TravelTomorrow and changing the way we travel would have been unthinkable at the end of 2019.

Airbnb secures $1 billion investment
Thursday, 9th April 2020

Airbnb announced that Silver Lake and Sixth Street Partners will invest $1 billion in Airbnb in a combination of debt and equity securities.

The new resources will support Airbnb’s ongoing work to invest over the long term in its community of hosts who share their homes and experiences, as well as the work to serve all stakeholders in the Airbnb community >>

Four Seasons NYC offers free rooms for medical personnel
9 Apr 2020 : Four Seasons Hotel New York has officially reopened its doors to offer a welcome respite to New York’s medical personnel on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic >>

Stay Home Today, #TravelTomorrow
9 Apr 2020 : #TravelTomorrow encapsulates this message of solidarity and hope, through which the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) calls for shared responsibility among travellers and the tourism sector around the world to deal with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic >>

Chinese hotel CEOs expect rebound by mid-Q2
7 Apr 2020 : The travel industry and the world at large in a way are looking at China for the rebound. Simply because China is indicating that things are slowly returning to normal >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Changing the Way We Travel Would Have Been Unthinkable at the End of 2019
Thursday, 9th April 2020

But now we must accept it, the travel world has been turned upside down and how can we get back to a normal steady state and how does that happen?

There is an expectation mostly driven by hope – which we all know is not a strategy – that the current global lock down is temporary and that we will emerge the other side stronger, better and, well, normal. Welcome the seven stages of the new normal, writes Timothy O’Neil-Dunne, principal, 777 Partners >>

An Invasion of Business Like Never Before
The Indian hospitality sector is perhaps undergoing one of its worst-ever crises in living memory and is putting every effort to deal with this unprecedented invasion >>

Virus Collateral Damage: Unforeseen Consequences
Beyond the catastrophic results for the tourism and hospitality industry, some side-effects of the measures to fight the pandemic could be expected, including a decrease in environmental pollution and an increase in domestic violence >>

Post COVID-19, Authentic Experiences & Community Will Shape Hotels
In many respects it is still too early to foresee what hotel industry trends will be triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, however, it is possible to imagine that our attitudes towards mass tourism may have changed permanently >>

In case you've missed it: Global eNews of April 08, 2020
Hong Kong entry restrictions extended, Changi Airport consolidates terminals, the Indian hotels sector and restoring loyalty programs >>