Thailand is planning a health certification for hotels, Asia's profit decline to deepen, what will it take for the cruise industry to survive and hotel operations in the COVID era.

Thailand is planning a health certification for hotels
Monday, 27th April 2020

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is formulating a health and safety certificate for hotels, tourism establishments and services. A goal of the initiative is to instill confidence in travelers to the country and domestic tourists in a post Covid-19 changing marketplace.

Taking on the substantial task is a public and private partnership between TAT and leading travel stakeholders >>

Hotelbeds launches COVID-19 updates via WhatsApp
27 Apr 2020 : Launch of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger subscription services for clients and hotel partners. Plus interactive menu offers automated responses to latest updates including force majeure details and destination closure guidance >>

Asia's profit decline to deepen in 2020
27 Apr 2020 : 2019 was already a challenging year for hotels across Asia, as profit for the year fell 3.5% year-over-year. Then came the emergence and spread of COVID-19, which reared its head first in China and then across the region, and had a deleterious impact on hotel performance in February 2020 >>

American Express GBT offsets 100% of employee travel
27 Apr 2020 : As the first global travel management company to offset 100% of its own travel emissions, GBT will next focus on becoming carbon neutral across all its operations >>

Asia Pacific Capital Tracker
25 Apr 2020 : Get the latest information on direct and indirect real estate transactions in Asia Pacific with our quarterly Capital Tracker >>

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Cruising- What It Will Take to Survive
Monday, 27th April 2020

The cruise industry is an estimated $75 billion business, highly attractive to 40 million people who take one or multiple ocean or river cruises around the world per year. Since the emergence of COVID-19, the industry has suffered from harrowing headlines and an almost total shutdown of business.

No stranger to incidents stimulating negative press, the cruise industry is always under the media microscope. Images of distressed passengers and large vessels at sea play a major role in the frequency and ferocity of coverage >>

​The Knowledge: Why You Should Chat to Your Cab Driver
Passengers seem to fall into one of two categories: Those that say nothing to their taxi or ride-sharing driver and those who are unfazed by reading out a text message from their love interest to a complete stranger >>

Hotel Operations in the COVID Era
Social distancing has become a norm in today's COVID-19 world and hotels need to re-evaluate and update their SOPs to adapt to this change >>

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