The Foreign & Commonwealth Office has advised British citizens against all non-essential international travel, initially for a period of 30 days.The advice takes effect immediately.The change in a…
Air New Zealand pauses ticket sales, cuts flights
Air New Zealand is further reducing capacity across its network as a result of the impact of Covid-19 on travel demand.The airline placed itself into a trading halt today to allow it time to more full…
Rwanda to host tourism leadership forum
Rwanda will host the 2020 Africa Tourism Leadership Forum (ATLF) and Awards at the Kigali Convention Centre from July 13-15 under the theme ‘Shaping a better future for intra-Africa travel toget…
Austrian Airlines to ground all flights from Thursday
Austrian Airlines has announced it will temporarily suspend all scheduled flight operations as of Thursday.The Lufthansa-owned carrier said it was reacting to restrictions imposed by many countries in…
Dire coronavirus news not killing travel to safe places
Despite all the conference cancellations, colleges going online, businesses grounding travel and growing consumer fears of Covid-19, there remained bright spots in the travel industry last week, with …
U.S. Travel to White House: Covid-19 will be six times more damaging than 9/11
Fallout from the Covid-19 coronavirus will be six times worse for the travel industry than the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a new report from Tourism Economics estimates.The analysis, which the U.S. Tra…
BREAKING NEWS: SA Express to suspend operations
SA Express will suspend operations from today (18 March 2020) until further notice.This is in light of “recent adverse developments”, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the air…
TUI River Cruises postpones European debut
The launch of TUI River Cruises has been postponed, with all sailings cancelled until May 2nd.The first public voyages were due to depart on March 29th, with itineraries on a number of European waterw…
Airbnb: the booking platform has lost lots of money, not only because of Covid-19
The road to Wall Street looks particularly difficult for Airbnb. While the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic should weigh heavily on the results of the accommodation booking platform for private individua…
Operator left high and dry after empty marketing promises
A Cape Town-based tour operator seems to be the latest in a string of South African-based tourism suppliers that have been duped into paying for advertising in a business-to-business tourism publicati…