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Tourism
This worldwide caution for Americans to stay alert in tourist spots, even often safe European capitals, is quite notable.
Dawit Habtemariam | 1 month ago
News Blog
Australia has recommenced visa processing for Chinese group travel, Australia's Ministry of Trade and Tourism announced on Monday. The visa processing restart follows China's lifting of pandemic-era restrictions last month on outbound group tours to Australia, the U.S., Japan and multiple other countries. Australia reopened its borders to international travel in March this year. Since…
Dawit Habtemariam | 2 months ago
Overtourism
Sorry, Italian officials. We side with UNESCO on this one. Venice faces long-standing but urgent issues, such as overtourism and climate change. This global gem needs a coordinated, strategic vision for its preservation.
Angelo Amante and John Irish, Reuters | 2 months ago
If the U.S. can't get Chinese tourists back, it will have to up its game attracting tourists from other international markets to make up for the spending shortfall.
Dawit Habtemariam | 4 months ago
The U.S. hosted 51 million international visitors in 2022, amounting to 64 percent of its 2019 volume, according to the National Travel and Tourism Office’s latest data. Outbound travel from the U.S. totaled 80.8 million, down 19 percent from its pre-pandemic volume. About 24 million traveled from overseas, i.e. not Canada and Mexico, up 161…
Dawit Habtemariam | 9 months ago
Airlines
Today’s edition of Skift’s daily podcast looks at globalization and tourism, Azul's quarterly luck, and Uber's business travel push.
Rashaad Jorden | 9 months ago
More than two years have passed. Where are the new metrics tourism desperately needs? How will this industry actually treat nature and communities as equal beneficiaries? Is tourism ready to demolish its neocolonial mindset? Those are the pressing questions facing the industry. For now, it's mostly talk and no walk.
Lebawit Lily Girma | 1 year ago
Coronavirus
Hosting a spectator-free Olympic Games in a pandemic and taking a hit of over $30 billion is about as historic as it gets. But Japan tourism's handling of it shone a light on the ways destinations are adapting, as well as the factors that will impact global tourism's future.
Lebawit Lily Girma | 2 years ago
The pharmaceutical companies can afford to be selfish and put profit before community. But the travel industry can't, whether it realizes it or not.
Will the industry seize this historic moment to go beyond discourse, and rebuild in a way that puts communities first?
