New testing requirements for air travel to Canada, Tourism back to 1990 levels, access is the new currency and 2021 top business predictions.

New testing requirements for air travel to Canada
Friday, 8th January 2021

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expressed frustration with Canada’s new COVID-19 testing requirement for all arriving air travelers due to come into effect as of 7 January 2021.

While the industry for months has been calling for systematic testing to re-open borders without quarantine measures, these pleas have fallen on deaf ears, especially in Canada >>

Tourism back to 1990 levels as arrivals fall by 70%+
8 Jan 2021 : International arrivals fell over the first ten months of 2020, with restrictions on travel, low consumer confidence and a global struggle to contain the COVID-19 virus, all contributing to the worst year on record in the history of tourism >>

Langham opens Cordis in Hangzhou
8 Jan 2021 : Cordis, Hangzhou, Sci-Tech City opens and joins its sister Cordis hotels in Shanghai, Beijing, Dongqian Lake, Hong Kong and Auckland >>

voco™ opens in Strasbourg, the French Alsace region
8 Jan 2021 : IHG announces the opening of voco® Strasbourg Centre - The Garden, marking the brand’s second opening in France, following the opening of voco® Paris Montparnasse in September last year >>

HIGHLIGHT ARTICLE

Access is the New Currency
Friday, 8th January 2021

The key is 'access' to the celebrity, that started me thinking about how celebrities are selling experiences and the reason people are willing to pay (handsomely, I might add) is access.

Giving people access is one way we can create a positive experience. In fact, the access and perhaps the anticipation of it as well, is a positive experience, in and of itself >>

2021 Top Business Predictions
As you make decisions based on these and other predictions, always look to the future and anticipate the impact on your customers and employees >>

Technology and Bench-marking
The pandemic has just pushed things along faster. In addition, the need for technology to replace human contact has become imminent now >>

In case you've missed it: Global eNews of January 07, 2021
Global Tourism Plastics initiative welcomes new signatories, Vaccines for international air travellers, crisis management 2021 and the relationship between technology & driving hotel revenue >>