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  • Restrictions on travel introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic continue to hit global tourism hard, with the latest data from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) showing a 70% fall in international arrivals for the first eight months of 2020.

  • With the second wave of COVID-19 on the rise, some destinations require a negative coronavirus test result in order to enter the country. Instead of getting tested, some passengers are forging their certificates.

  • The health crisis has accelerated the use of technology for many players. Many companies turn to virtual travel offer to maintain a link with the travelers’ favorite destinations and heritage sites.

  • During these uncertain times, it is not easy for airline passengers to navigate among the coronovirus-related travel restrictions. The Wizz Air has responded to this problem by launching the new product – the Travel Planning Map, a new website search tool designed to help passengers determine which destinations in the WIZZ network they can fly to at that precise moment in time.

  • After a painfully slow but gradual opening of the tourist season in July, and the latest restrictions imposed by the main markets – without following the EU criteria – after the most recent COVID-19 outbreaks in Spain, the sales data and cancellations in the first half of August reveal a flattening of the already slow reactivation expected mid-June, pointing to an early closure of the summer season.

  • United Airlines Holdings expects to remove 16,370 jobs next October due to the international drop in travel demand over the COVID-19 crisis, which has caused the airline to cut a number of routes.

  • This week the United Nations Secretary-General launched the Policy Brief “COVID-19 and Transforming Tourism”, which UNWTO assumed the lead role in producing.

  • As UNWTO leads the restart of tourism, the Secretary-General of the United Nations has sent a landmark message to the world, highlighting the sector’s unique role in advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in protecting the most vulnerable members of our societies.

  • Minister of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Ali Asghar Mounesan said that a record number of 8 million tourists visited Iran during the first 10 months of the past Iranian calendar year which ended March 20, 2020 .

  • While many countries such as the USA and Brazil are struggling with devastating corona records and a second wave of the virus is already sweeping across other regions, some islands in the South Pacific, for example, have so far been completely spared by the pandemic. Here is an overview of successes and failures in the fight of the travel world against the coronavirus.