Opinion

Hawaii Hotel Occupancy Rate: What a Disaster

Hawaii Hotel Occupancy Rate: What a Disaster

In March 2020, Hawaii hotels statewide reported substantial declines in revenue per available room (RevPAR), average daily rate (ADR), and the Hawaii hotel occupancy rate compared to March 2019 as tourism began to be impacted significantly by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Hawaii Hotel Performance Report published by Hawaii Tourism Authority’s (HTA) Research Division, […]

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Opinion

Emirates protecting and preparing its parked fleet to take to the skies again

Emirates protecting and preparing its parked fleet to take to the skies again

While the world yearns to travel once again, meet and hug loved ones, seek new adventures and close those business deals, Emirates is busy protecting and readying the world’s largest all wide-body fleet to take to the skies. This could have proved daunting, but Emirates Engineering, a division of the airline and one of the […]

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Opinion

Hotel profits plunge amid COVID-19 rise in Europe

Hotel profits plunge amid COVID-19 rise in Europe

With cases in China starting to plateau, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Europe to be the new epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in March, fueled by the rapid expansion of the virus across Italy and Spain. This prompted governments across the region to scale up the measures to contain the spread, and several lockdown […]

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Opinion

Can Travel and Tourism Rise again as Smart Destinations?

Can Travel and Tourism Rise again as Smart Destinations?

The global travel and tourism industry is experiencing a TOURISM MELTDOWN As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic hotels in the tourism-dependent regions like Hawai‘i hotels and attractions have closed, incoming passengers are quarantined, unemployment claims have skyrocketed, and daily passenger counts went from 30,000 plus to a few hundred. In a matter of weeks, […]

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