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The company will donate five euros to the International Red Cross for each reservation The Hotelbeds bed bank announced on Monday the launch of the ‘Holidays for Heroes’ campaign which aims to offer exclusive discounts of up to 25% to the ‘heroes’ who work on the front line. The offer will apply to all bookings […]
eDreams Odigeo has presented this Tuesday a Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE) that will affect a maximum of 985 employees in Spain, who represent 90% of its workforce worldwide, to ensure business continuity in the face of the pandemic of the coronavirus. According to the information transferred by the company to the National Securities Market […]
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) considers that the sector occupies a «privileged» position to lead the recovery after the coronavirus crisis, and has indicated that it will provide «jobs to people who need to return to activity», in addition to promote economic growth that helps countries recover. However, he has called for «staying home today» […]
Exceltur calls for a second «exceptional» package of measures to be activated with «utmost urgency» The Spanish tourism sector will lose up to 33,668 million of direct and indirect activity during the current year in the event that current fall rates are maintained and the coronavirus crisis continues for four months, according to estimates by […]
It will lay off 12% of its total workforce globally Expedia Group has announced that it will cut 3,000 jobs, including around 500 at its Seattle headquarters, with the goal of reducing costs by simplifying its «inflated» organization. As reported by the company’s spokesman, Josh deBerge, workers will begin to be notified this week. Expedia […]
Airbnb is holding talks with the authorities of the city of New York to resolve a lawsuit on the ordinance that requires the platform to provide data on guests, owners and homes. The vacation rental platform filed the lawsuit in 2018, along with HomeAway, claiming that the legislation would violate privacy laws, according to Bloomberg. […]
The main international hotel chains, especially those with a strong presence in China, are offering free cancellations for travelers who have reservations and decide to cancel their trip due to the coronavirus, the cause of Wuhan’s pneumonia and that has killed 132 people and almost 6,000 affected in thirty Chinese provinces. Millions of people reconsider […]
The platform takes this measure after the shooting at an unauthorized party at a platform accommodation in Toronto where three young people died The Airbnb vacation rental platform has begun to restrict some reservations for children under 25 in Canada in an effort to prevent so-called ‘party houses’ from becoming a spiral of violence. Airbnb […]
The bankruptcy administrator of Thomas Cook has delivered last Friday the letter of dismissal to the employees of this British tour operator, who declared bankruptcy in September 2019, after having been the second largest tourist group worldwide. As reported by a spokesman for workers in Palma, after the signing of this letter, from next week […]
The year 2019 has been a very intense year of tourist news among which the bankruptcy of the British tour operator Thomas Cook, the purchase of the Air Europa airline by Iberia, the merger of the travel agencies of Globalia and Barceló, the crisis of the Boeing 737 Max model, and the opening to high […]