The hotel, travel and tourism industries have been hammered by COVID-19. As strategic partners in the tourism paradigm, hotel executives have seen investments in this sector decline by 59 percent in the first half of 2020. McKinsey research suggests that the all industry segments will not see a recovery to pre-COVID-19 levels until 2023 or later. […]
Does Crime Take a Holiday?
Watching more TV news than ever? Thinking the country is overrun with bad guys looting and destroying storefronts? Thanks to the current elected officials… you know them, they occupy buildings and residents paid for with tax dollars and are totally clueless on how to contain COVID-19 while maintaining full employment – we have large amounts of unscheduled […]
Sea Sick. Is Cruising Still a Happy Place?
Happy Cruisers Each year, over 30 million people spend their time and money on over 272 CLIA-member cruise ships. Before Covid 19, the industry supported 1,108,676 jobs representing $45 billion in wages and salaries, generating $134 billion worldwide (2017) and CLIA forecasted a rosy future for the industry finding social media and restorative travel increasing, […]
Poorism: Is it tourism?
On a very recent and very cold winter night in Manhattan, I layered up and went to a church on 22nd street to attend a Homeless Forum sponsored by two New York City Council members, Dan Garodnick and Rosie Mendez, to learn more about these escalating crises in New York City. The homeless crises is […]
Sea Sick: Is Cruising Still a Happy Business?
The cruise industry before COVID-19 generated $134 billion in travel and tourism revenue prompting the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) to paint a rosy future. This was before COVID-19. Before COVID-19, almost 351 million posts with the tag #travel on Instagram were generated by happy voyagers. Passengers supported the wellness programs including oxygen bars, healthy […]
Will meetings return? Can hotels really open safely?… Or should we stay home?
Tourism Encounters a New Paradigm Up to, and including the beginning of 2020, many professionals in the hotel, travel, and tourism industry would have agreed that “bigger is better.” Demand created a need to build larger cruise ships, more and differentiated hotels, additional stadiums and convention centers, faster and bigger aircraft. There appeared to be […]
Stay Home! Will Groups Return?
https://youtu.be/xkpaKgPciNI Tourism Encounters a New Paradigm Up to, and including the beginning of 2020, many professionals in the hotel, travel and tourism industry would have agreed that “bigger is better.” Demand created a need to build larger cruise ships, more and differentiated hotels, additional stadiums and convention centers, faster and bigger aircraft. There appeared to […]
Why Tourism is part of the COVID-19 Problem?
VID-19 appeared first on the Chinese radar screen at the end of December 2019 and became part of the global dialogue at the beginning of 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus a pandemic on March 12, 2020, and since then the virus has touched every aspect of the world economy including but […]
Covid 19 Dining Out Becomes a Dilemma
Life BC (Before Covid 19) Before Covid 19 dining out was a no-brainer; grabbing a pizza or making a reservation at the newest, trending restaurant – no problem. However, thanks to the President of the USA and other elected officials, having a drink at a bar with friends, or eating a burger at a nearby pub has […]
Getting Beyond COVID-19: Press Releases are Not the Answer
Barriers to a reboot of the hotel, travel and tourism industry grow daily. Why? Perhaps the industry cannot gain traction because industry leaders refuse to acknowledge the core issues that concern consumers. They struggle with how to move beyond COVID-19. Pricing is not an incentive: The airlines offer rock-bottom prices and yet there is no […]