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Tourism Tidbits: The Road to Recovery: The Rebirth of Tourism
Dr. Peter E. Tarlow | June 3, 2020
By Dr. Peter Tarlow June 2020 During the last three months, the travel and tourism industry around much of the world for the most part came to an almost complete halt. Three months later we now face the new task of moving from the shock of what was to creating a world of what will be. It now becomes all of our jobs to find ways for the travel and tourism industry to be reborn. In the immediate future this process of renewal means that tourism leaders, both in the public and private sector, will have to accept the fact that our world has changed and they will need to find new and creative ways to go from an almost total tourism stopp...
Tourism Tidbits: After the Virus Passes: Travel Tips for Tourism Professionals
Dr. Peter E. Tarlow | May 6, 2020
By Dr. Peter Tarlow During the last three months, tourism has basically come to a halt. Organizations and business cancelled meetings one after another, hotels suffered from low to no occupancy, airlines faced their biggest challenge ever, and trade show ceased to exist. Yet despite the hardships of the last few months, slowly but surely tourism will be reborn and its leaders will once again have to create new ways not only for the pubic to travel but to lead by example and travel. Remember that the word hospitality is related to the word for hospital. A hospital takes care of our bodies and hospitality addresses the soul. Both are essenti...
sbe Starts Hiring of 1,000 New Team Members for C3 Amid COVID-19
C3 | April 16, 2020
Sam Nazarian to Commence Recruitment Immediately to Staff 138 Ghost Kitchens Opening by End of 2020 Nazarian will Prioritize Employees Furloughed at Other Restaurants and Properties Due to COVID-19 MIAMI, April 16, 2020 -- Sam Nazarian, Founder and CEO of sbe, the leading lifestyle hospitality company that develops, manages and operates award-winning global brands, today announced that recruitment has begun for 1,000 newly-created positions across the country for sbe's C3 (Creating Culinary Communities) subsidiary. As part of the opening of [food halls] and 138 ghost kitchens before the end of the year, C3 is hiring across the entire organi...
Deep Dive: Asia Performance in the Time of COVID-19
HotStats | March 30, 2020
COVID-19 swept through Asia first. Chinese health officials first reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization (WHO) on Dec. 31, 2019, and the rapid spread of the virus prompted aggressive containment measures across the entire region. The impact on the hotel industry was swift and severe, because many Asian travel markets rely heavily on Chinese visitor demand. Revenue Tourism Economics noted that in terms of spending, mainland China constitutes the most important outbound travel market in the world, and according to the China Outbound Tourism Research Institute, the top 10 destinations chosen by Chinese t...
