Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism

Global Online Travel Market Report 2021: COVID-19 Impacts on the Digital Travel Market and Insights into Possible Future Industry Developments - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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The "Global Online Travel Market 2021" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • The "Global Online Travel Market 2021" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • The report "Global Online Travel Market 2021," details the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the digital travel market worldwide and provides insights into possible future industry developments.
  • The health crisis deeply affected digital travel sales, but the future looks more optimistic
    Deeply affected by the restrictions imposed due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the global online travel industry experienced a significant downfall in sales.
  • In 2021, most of the major global online travel agencies were able to keep their market positions, including Booking.com, which remained to be the top website in the travel category globally.

TravelPerk partners with Skyscanner to enable safe travel

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Thursday, May 27, 2021
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LONDON, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TravelPerk , the largest global travel management platform, has today announced a partnership with leading global travel marketplace Skyscanner to provide travellers with daily data on Covid-19 travel restrictions, including point to point travel information, documents required for travel, and details of destination specific restrictions and requirements.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TravelPerk , the largest global travel management platform, has today announced a partnership with leading global travel marketplace Skyscanner to provide travellers with daily data on Covid-19 travel restrictions, including point to point travel information, documents required for travel, and details of destination specific restrictions and requirements.
  • By integrating TravelSafe API, both Skyscanner and TravelPerk play a major role in enabling a safe and smooth return to travel, building traveller confidence through the provision of live updates on travel restrictions and requirements.
  • Ross McNairn, Chief Product Officer at TravelPerk, said:
    "It's been a tough year for the travel industry, and for people who love to travel.
  • Working with 1200 travel partners, Skyscanner's mission is to lead the global transformation to modern and sustainable travel.

TravelPerk partners with Skyscanner to enable safe travel

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Thursday, May 27, 2021
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism, Skyscanner, Trip.com Group, Travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tourism, Service industries, Cultural globalization

LONDON, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TravelPerk , the largest global travel management platform, has today announced a partnership with leading global travel marketplace Skyscanner to provide travellers with daily data on Covid-19 travel restrictions, including point to point travel information, documents required for travel, and details of destination specific restrictions and requirements.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TravelPerk , the largest global travel management platform, has today announced a partnership with leading global travel marketplace Skyscanner to provide travellers with daily data on Covid-19 travel restrictions, including point to point travel information, documents required for travel, and details of destination specific restrictions and requirements.
  • By integrating TravelSafe API, both Skyscanner and TravelPerk play a major role in enabling a safe and smooth return to travel, building traveller confidence through the provision of live updates on travel restrictions and requirements.
  • Ross McNairn, Chief Product Officer at TravelPerk, said:
    "It's been a tough year for the travel industry, and for people who love to travel.
  • Working with 1200 travel partners, Skyscanner's mission is to lead the global transformation to modern and sustainable travel.

COVID-19: Council updates recommendation on travel restrictions from third countries into the EU

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Wednesday, February 3, 2021
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The Council today adopted a recommendation amending the recommendation on the temporary restriction on non-essential travel into the EU and the possible lifting of such restriction.

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  • The Council today adopted a recommendation amending the recommendation on the temporary restriction on non-essential travel into the EU and the possible lifting of such restriction.
  • Reintroduction of restrictions

    Where the epidemiological situation worsens quickly and, in particular, where a high incidence of variants of concern of the virus is detected, travel restrictions for non-essential travel may be rapidly reintroduced.

  • On 30 June 2020, the Council adopted a recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU.
  • Travel restrictions should be lifted for countries listed in the recommendation, with this list being reviewed and, as the case may be, updated every two weeks.

Travel restrictions: Council reviews the list of third countries for which member states should gradually lift restrictions on non-essential travel

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Friday, January 29, 2021
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Following a review under the recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU, the Council updated the list of countries for which travel restrictions should be lifted.

Key Points: 
  • Following a review under the recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU, the Council updated the list of countries for which travel restrictions should be lifted.
  • As stipulated in the Council recommendation, this list will continue to be reviewed every two weeks and, as the case may be, updated.
  • On 30 June the Council adopted a recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU, including an initial list of countries for which member states should start lifting the travel restrictions at the external borders.
  • A Member State should not decide to lift the travel restrictions for non-listed third countries before this has been decided in a coordinated manner.

Developments in the tourism sector during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Tuesday, January 5, 2021
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Lockdowns and social distancing measures led to strong declines in otherwise stable services consumption.

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  • Lockdowns and social distancing measures led to strong declines in otherwise stable services consumption.
  • This box takes stock of developments in the tourism sector, discusses how the impact of these developments on consumption has varied across countries and reviews the near-term prospects for a recovery in tourism and travel.
  • The slump in tourism and travel, reflecting restrictions and uncertainties related to peoples movement across borders (e.g.
  • The effects of this collapse can be seen by looking at the difference between domestic consumption and national consumption (see panel (a) of Chart A).
  • [2] In other words, tourism has worked as a shock amplification channel during the COVID-19 pandemic in countries which are net exporters of travel services (i.e.
  • Available data for the third quarter of 2020 show a partial and incomplete return of consumption gaps to the levels seen before the pandemic.
  • A partial rebound notwithstanding, the data show that the foreign tourism sector remained depressed in the third quarter of 2020.
  • Data on tourist arrivals continued to show significantly low figures for foreign arrivals when compared with the situation before the outbreak of COVID-19 (see panel (b) of Chart B).
  • By contrast, domestic tourism remained relatively resilient and was able to partially compensate for the loss of foreign tourism, despite remaining below the levels seen in 2019.
  • Tourism in countries relying on foreign arrivals, such as Greece and Portugal (see panel (a) of Chart B), still remains far below normal levels.
  • [5] In most euro area countries, governments reimposed curfews and closed tourist attractions and recreational facilities such as museums, theatres, bars and restaurants.
  • The reintroduction of travel restrictions since October will likely imply that the substitution of foreign tourism with domestic tourism will continue to affect the dynamics of tourism services in the near term.
  • The latest restrictions may also alter the geographical impact of the crisis on the sector, as winter tourism destinations will be more severely affected this time.
  • Forward-looking indicators point to a renewed deterioration of the tourism sector as restrictions are reintroduced (see Chart C).
  • Chart C Latest developments in tourism (left-hand scale: standardised index; right-hand scale: percentage relative to the same period in the previous year)

Flight Centre Travel Group Transforms its Customer Experience with K2 Cloud

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Monday, December 28, 2020
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BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, today announced that Flight Centre Travel Group (ASX: FLT), one of the world's largest travel agencies, has successfully leveraged K2 Cloud to help improve its operational efficiencies and digitally transform its customer experience.

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  • BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, today announced that Flight Centre Travel Group (ASX: FLT), one of the world's largest travel agencies, has successfully leveraged K2 Cloud to help improve its operational efficiencies and digitally transform its customer experience.
  • Flight Centre Travel Group, with a vast global sales network, received an overwhelming number of cancellation requests in 2020 as a result of the pandemic.
  • "By automating repetitive, time-consuming tasks with easy-to-use and powerful digital process automation software like K2 Cloud, the Flight Centre Travel Group immediately went digital and provided its corporate travelers with a better experience."
  • To improve its corporate travel customer experience, the Flight Centre Travel Group modernized its operations to drive more consistency and transparency across its processes.

Flight Centre Travel Group Transforms its Customer Experience with K2 Cloud

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Monday, December 28, 2020
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LONDON, Dec. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, today announced that Flight Centre Travel Group (ASX: FLT), one of the world's largest travel agencies, has successfully leveraged K2 Cloud to help improve its operational efficiencies and digitally transform its customer experience.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, Dec. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, today announced that Flight Centre Travel Group (ASX: FLT), one of the world's largest travel agencies, has successfully leveraged K2 Cloud to help improve its operational efficiencies and digitally transform its customer experience.
  • Flight Centre Travel Group, with a vast global sales network, received an overwhelming number of cancellation requests in 2020 as a result of the pandemic.
  • "By automating repetitive, time-consuming tasks with easy-to-use and powerful digital process automation software like K2 Cloud, the Flight Centre Travel Group immediately went digital and provided its corporate travellers with a better experience."
  • To improve its corporate travel customer experience, the Flight Centre Travel Group modernised its operations to drive more consistency and transparency across its processes.

Travel restrictions: Council reviews the list of third countries for which restrictions on non-essential travel should be lifted

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Friday, December 18, 2020
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Following a review under the recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU, the Council updated the list of countries for which travel restrictions should be lifted.

Key Points: 
  • Following a review under the recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU, the Council updated the list of countries for which travel restrictions should be lifted.
  • As stipulated in the Council recommendation, this list will continue to be reviewed regularly and, as the case may be, updated.
  • Residents of Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican should be considered as EU residents for the purpose of this recommendation.
  • A Member State should not decide to lift the travel restrictions for non-listed third countries before this has been decided in a coordinated manner.

Travel restrictions: Council reviews the list of third countries for which restrictions should be lifted

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Friday, October 23, 2020
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Following a review under the recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU, the Council updated the list of countries for which travel restrictions should be lifted.

Key Points: 
  • Following a review under the recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU, the Council updated the list of countries for which travel restrictions should be lifted.
  • As stipulated in the Council recommendation, this list will continue to be reviewed regularly and, as the case may be, updated.
  • On 30 June the Council adopted a recommendation on the gradual lifting of the temporary restrictions on non-essential travel into the EU, including an initial list of countries for which member states should start lifting the travel restrictions at the external borders.
  • A Member State should not decide to lift the travel restrictions for non-listed third countries before this has been decided in a coordinated manner.