WILL FRANCE CREATE A BOOKING PLATFORM TO COMPETE WITH AIRBNB AND BOOKING?

Justin N. Froyd -
Recently, various media informed about France planning to create its own booking platform to rival the American platforms of Airbnb and Booking.com. The reality however seems to be elsewhere. ...

AUSTRIA EXPERIENCING TREMENDOUS UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE TOURISM SECTOR

Larry Brain -
For more than eleven weeks, everything has been at a standstill in the Austrian tourism industry. The current lockdown for hotels and catering businesses will probably continue until the end of Februa ...

MOROCCAN TOURISM REVENUES FELL BY 51%

Andrew J. Wein -
From January to November 2020, Moroccan tourism revenues declined by 51% as a result of the consequences of the health crisis. The fall was flattened by 76%, a month earlier, due to the arrivals of Mo ...

DESTINATIONS ADOPTING ‘DEMARKETING’ STRATEGY AGAINST OVERTOURISM

Overtourism was a phenomenon that caused major problems to some of the most famous destinations around the world before the pandemic and it is destined to do so even after the state of ‘normalcy ...

FOREIGN TOURIST ARRIVALS IN CHILE FELL 75.1% IN 2020

The Undersecretary of Tourism of the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile published the monthly report of the Tourism Barometer in January 2021. The report presented the sector’s main ...