AirlineRatings launches COVID-19 ratings, China’s inland gateway cities, reactivating the Caribbean and travel advisors are everyone’s best friend right now.

AirlineRatings launches COVID-19 ratings
Friday, 7th August 2020

An unsettled world means traveling safely is now of paramount importance and significant new services from AirlineRating allow passengers to take the worry out of choosing an airline.

AirlineRatings.com answers the questions on everyone's lips: which airlines have implemented full COVID-19 protocols and which airlines' pilots have been trained correctly?

In two industry firsts, the world's only safety, and product rating website is giving passengers greater peace of mind with a refined safety rating system focused on passenger health during COVID-19 and an insight into crucial flight outcomes on hundreds of carriers >>

'Go West' and China’s inland gateway cities
7 Aug 2020 : This year marks the 20th anniversary of China’s 'Go West' state-level strategy. Twenty years ago, less than 50% of China’s population lived in urban area (as compared with 60% in 2019), and differences between the East (coastal) and the West (inland) was huge >>

Israel hotel market overview 2020 – The path to recovery
7 Aug 2020 : As with the rest of Europe, we expect hotels to reopen gradually in Israel and that they will likely need to continue making use of the government’s unemployment benefits until demand returns in sufficient quantities, especially from international visitors, to justify a more profitable operation than the cost of remaining closed >>

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

COVID-19 testing is critical to restart travel safely
6 Aug 2020 : As the travel industry braces for a second Covid-19 wave, GBTA, the Global Business Travel Association, calls for widening testing capabilities and requirements across the EU as a better alternative to blanket travel restrictions >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Why Travel Advisors Are Everyone’s Best Friend Right Now
Friday, 7th August 2020

The urge to travel, coupled with the new concerns around safety has begun to redefine the industry and refocus these relationships towards authenticity and loyalty.

The role of the advisor has become ever more elevated and is fundamental to the way people buy and sell travel. Working closer than ever with their clients, advisors are the translators of this new language >>

Reactivating the Caribbean during the Pandemic
Upon knowledge of the COVID-19 pandemic, each island immediately closed its borders, which allowed for a very low number of cases in the region so that the islands could focus on containing the virus transmission without any additional entrants >>

Grow your Profit Core
Even in today’s crisis, managers can create surprisingly large profit gains by growing their profit core – selectively increasing the profitability of their current book of business, this has enormous leverage >>

In case you've missed it: Global eNews of August 06, 2020
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