Los Angeles hotels volunteer 30,000 rooms to LA COVID-19 response

More than 300 Los Angeles hotels have volunteered more than 30,000 rooms to the LA County Department of Public Health and other agencies as temporary shelter to support the region’s COVID-19 response, the Hotel Association of Los Angeles announced today. About 4,000 rooms are under contract, including more than 400 rooms at a large downtown […]

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Rwanda commits to supporting local tourism in post-COVID-19 recovery

Rwanda’s local tourism sector will be one of the beneficiaries of the soon to be launched COVID-19 recovery fund, that aims to foster economic recovery of various economic sectors. Rwandan media has reported this week that tourist sector is among the worst affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with a lot of uncertainty about how soon […]

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Bangkok Airways enhances anti-COVID-19 measures

Bangkok Airways Public Company Limited enhances precautionary measures and social distancing practices on passenger service during COVID-19 pandemic to ensure safe travel and to help prevent the spread of the virus as well as to provide travel confidence to airline and airport customers for their health and wellbeing. The measures are in compliance with the […]

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Nevis Tourism Authority: Nevis is COVID-19 free

The island of Nevis, one of the Caribbean’s best kept secrets has announced it is now COVID free after launching a series of measures to prevent the spread of the virus. The island of Nevis, part of the federation of St Kitts and Nevis has been aggressive in the measures taken to safeguard citizens, residents […]

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Deutsche Lufthansa AG seeks €9 billion ‘stabilization package’

Deutsche Lufthansa is negotiating a stabilization package for 9 billion euros with the Federal Economic Stabilization Fund (Wirtschaftsstabilisierungsfonds – WSF) to finance the Lufthansa Group. The negotiations and the process of political decision-making are still ongoing. The negotiations on financing measures include a silent participation and a secured loan. The conditions are currently being discussed. […]

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