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SriLankan Airlines has suspended its flight operations to Maldives, as Sri Lanka shuts down its main airport to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. In an announcement, SriLankan Airlines said flights operating to and from Maldives will be suspended from Thursday to next Wednesday. Th
Maldives is adapting to the changing business conditions in a bid to ensure a surge in bookings once the novel coronavirus outbreak peaks, the popular holiday destination's tourism promotion chief said Wednesday. In a message sent to industry partners, Thoyyib Mohamed said his team at the...
Maldives Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators (MATATO) has launched a survey to identify ways to provide relief to local travel agents and tour operators amidst the economic downturn caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, MATATO said it had already initiated...
Article - Marriott to Furlough Tens of Thousands of Workers As Coronavirus Batters Hotel Industry - USATODAY - Marriott International is poised to place tens of thousands of employees on furlough as the hotel giant reels from the coronavirus outbreak.
Employee furloughs are mandatory time off work with no pay. While an attractive alternative to a layoff for a company, furloughs are scary for workers.
China's ministry of science and technology has announced on late Tuesday that favipiravir, the main ingredient in the influenza drug Avigan, showed "very good clinical results" during clinical trials.
The recent global spread of COVID-19 - and the resulting impact on personal and professional lives everywhere - has put crisis management front and center. Hotels face a domino effect triggered by the pandemic: guests are afraid or not allowed to travel, businesses are pausing corporate travel and...
In an internal letter to employees, Expedia Group Vice Chairman Peter Kern told staff to set aside any projects that don't contribute to meeting the company's immediate needs and exhorted employees to help travel partners find business anywhere they can.
As travellers find their trips upended almost overnight as border closures and city lockdowns are announced across the world over recent days to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, travel players are finding that their business reflexes are being called to the test.
Web-conferencing and instant messaging tools are seeing greater usage among travel and tourism trade players who are determined to keep business dialogue alive as the appeal of face-to-face meetings diminish against a backdrop of Covid-19 infection fears.
