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Flights & Ticket

London business hopes to pivot from selling tickets online to booking COVID-19 shots

5 months ago
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With its business partner Accesso headquartered in the U.K. — Rivard worked with its California office — he has created an app that can be downloaded on a phone or mobile device that can tell you when and where your vaccine will be available, and will send reminders.

The province signalled this week it is open to working with private partners in distributing a COVID-19 vaccine, expected in Canada early in the new year.The province said it is working with leaders in the pharmaceutical, health care and logistics sectors to come up with a distribution plan, and will be leveraging both public and private-sector resources to deliver the vaccine.

London’s TechAlliance, an agency supporting technology businesses, has been working with Rivard, supporting his efforts to find new business since entertainment and events have been shut down.

“Live events are not happening now and he wanted to

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TRAVEL

New Study Estimates Up To 36% Of Airline Business Travel Won’t Return

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A new study by IdeaWorks and reported by the Wall Street Journal is the first detailed look at the effect of Covid-19 on longer-term airline business travel. The study breaks down the reasons people have traveled for business, assesses the effects of technology, work at home changes, and overall risk tolerance, and validates this with a wide range of industry and travel experts. As a result, this study is robust and more complete than any done since the pandemic began.

The four largest US Airlines should take note and all airlines will be affected in some ways if this estimate proves to be accurate.

Multiple Reasons For Business Travel

The study determined the reasons people travel by air for business, and then used data sources to size

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VACATION

Could a Review Aggregator Benefit Your Vacation Rental Business?

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Online reviews are an excellent way for property owners to get feedback on their vacation rentals. Reviews from past guests — especially five-star ones — are one of the best ways to attract new renters and keep your rental booked all season.

But there are a lot of vacation rental sites out there, and you’ve likely got your rental property listed on several of them. That means your reviews are scattered across the internet, making it difficult to see at a glance to see whether your property is a hit with renters. A review aggregator can make a world of difference in your vacation property bookings.

What is a review aggregator?

A review aggregator is a digital tool that gathers reviews of a product or service from all corners of the internet. For real estate investors who specialize in vacation rentals, this involves collecting all the reviews left by previous

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Taiwan and New Zealand show business travel’s future

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They handed out the New Zealand CIO Awards in Auckland’s Civic Theatre last week. For those of us locked down in the northern hemisphere, the photos come from a glittering world. There are 650 people crowded into the pre-event drinks, leaning in to make themselves heard. A few are posing arm in arm. Astonishingly, someone is reaching for a canapé from a proffered tray. There are no masks.

This may be a view of our past, but perhaps also our future, when we, like New Zealand, have controlled the virus. The country has suffered 25 Covid-19 deaths. Life has a normality denied to much of the world. What can it teach us about business travel post-Coronavirus? Was Bill Gates right when he said business travel would be down 50 per cent on its pre-pandemic level?

I became interested in travel patterns in largely coronavirus-free countries when I spoke to Steven

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VACATION

New business on Hill, thanks to vacation down south

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by Len Lear

Walter Lapidus, 50, a Wyndmoor resident, his wife, Margie Scherzer, and daughters, Daria, 18, and Jordan, 16, went on vacation a couple years ago to Nashville and New Orleans. “My daughters ate at a place that serves fruit bowls and smoothies,” said Walter, “and they loved it. I figured that if they liked it so much, there must be a demand for that type of place, so when we got home, I did some research and found the nearest place like it was on Route 63, but nothing in Chestnut Hill or Mt. Airy, so I decided to open one.”

Walter learned about Bahia Bowls Açaí Café, a franchise operation founded in 2017 in Southwest Florida in the “fast casual” healthy dining space. Its stores offer an assortment of all-natural “Superfruit” bowls, Smoothies and other specialty products. (The açaí palm is a species of South American palm

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When will business travel recover?

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Local politicians and business owners criticize Hawaii’s new COVID-19 pre-travel policy

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Last week, Hawaii Gov. David Ige tightened the state’s COVID-19 pre-travel plans, requiring all travelers to have a confirmed negative coronavirus test before arriving in the island nation.

The previous policy allowed travelers who had not been tested to quarantine until their test results came back. Under the new policy, travelers must show proof of a negative coronavirus test. Otherwise, they will be quarantined for two weeks, even if test results come back negative.

The policy change has upset local politicians and business owners, including Hawaii House Speaker Scott Saiki, according to the Honolulu Civil Beat. Some critics cite the island’s low infection rate of visitors and its recovering economy as reason enough to stick to the original policy.

“This doesn’t serve the public very well,” Saiki said in a bi-monthly meeting this past Monday of the Hawaii House Select Committee on COVID-19 Economic and Financial Preparedness.

Mufi Hannemann, the

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China, Japan to lift restrictions on business travel

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Nov. 24 (UPI) — China and Japan have agreed to “fast track” business travel between the two countries after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Japanese counterpart in Tokyo.

Wang, who is to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Wednesday, is on a weeklong tour of Japan and South Korea. On Tuesday, Wang addressed the issue of expediting travel, but also raised the issue of disputed islands in the East China Sea, VOA News reported.

“Some Japanese fishing boats that do not have knowledge about the truth have repeatedly entered sensitive waters” near the islands, Wang said, according to the report. “We will certainly continue to safeguard [Chinese] sovereignty.”

Beijing claims the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands as its own. In recent years, Chinese fishing boats have been chased out of Japan-claimed territorial waters, and Tokyo’s military have invested in new units to increase surveillance near the islands.

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Singapore-Hong Kong air travel bubble postponed | St. Louis business news

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FILE – In this Oct. 9, 2020, file photo, people wearing masks to protect against the coronavirus, walk down a street in Hong Kong. Singapore and Hong Kong have postponed a planned air travel bubble meant to boost tourism for both cities, amid a spike in coronavirus infections in Hong Kong. The air travel bubble, originally slated to begin Sunday, will be delayed by at least two weeks, Hong Kong’s minister of commerce and economic development, Edward Yau, said at a news conference on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020.



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HONG KONG (AP) — Singapore and Hong Kong on Saturday postponed the start of an air travel bubble meant to boost tourism for both cities, amid a spike in coronavirus infections in Hong Kong.

The travel bubble, originally slated to begin Sunday, will be delayed by at least two weeks, Hong Kong’s minister of commerce

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CAMPING

Camping World coming to Lincoln spot near I-80 | Local Business News

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He said buildout of the store should take about seven months, and the company hopes to get started as soon as it has all needed city approvals.

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Camping World is seeking annexation of the land and a change of zoning from agriculture to highway commercial. The project is tentatively scheduled for a public hearing before the Planning Commission on Dec. 16.

The company has a store along the Interstate 29/Interstate 80 corridor in Council Bluffs, Iowa, but none currently in Nebraska. Lemonis said the Lincoln and Sidney stores, as well as one planned in Cheyenne, Wyoming, will help fill in a gap in its store map along I-80.

As for Lincoln, Lemonis said he hopes the placement of the Camping World store will help bring more development to the north Lincoln I-80 corridor.


Company behind proposed Lincoln data center buys

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