The pandemic will have marred the first anniversary celebrations, but this fledgling corporate travel unit should have enough experience behind it to ride out the storm.
-Matthew Parsons

Splitty’s acquisition of Cancelon’s assets is notable because it highlights a seemingly clever way to advertise on travel price-comparison sites. Think of it as “metasearch arbitrage.”
-Sean O’Neill

Love conquers all — at least with German travel bans.
-Tom Lowry

Drones have been both a bane and a gift to the travel industry. A problem for airports and airlines, for sure, but a treasure to travel marketers filming from above. This looks like another way in which they will be applauded by tourism officials.
-Tom Lowry

In another busy week of coronavirus coverage at Skift, there were stories about digital nomads, the contrasting outlook of Airbnb’s boss versus Expedia’s, and investor calls from numerous hotel companies.
-Rosie Spinks

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Year to date through the first seven months of 2020, the stock index was down 42.9%.

According to analysts at Lodging Econometrics (LE), Canada’s hotel construction pipeline continued to expand at the close of Q2’20 with 296 projects/39,645 rooms. The construction pipeline is up 8% by projects and 11% by rooms, year-over-y…

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 1.8 million in July, and the unemployment rate fell to 10.2 percent. These improvements in the labor market reflected the continued resumption of economic activity that had been curtailed due to the coronavir…