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Back to market in June?
Results of a survey by US-based MMGY
Travel Intelligence indicates that North
American DMOs are expecting to resume
paid promotional advertising before the
end of June.
Tourism professionals were surveyed on
the question of how Covid-19 has affected
their sector and 95% reported they had
reduced or postponed planned paid
promotional efforts, although half of all
destination organisations said they
expected to return to investing in paid
promotional advertising within the next
60 days.
Eighty percent revealed that they have
shifted their sales and marketing
strategies.
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BIE recommends
Dubai Expo 2020 postponement
The Executive Committee of the Bureau
International des Expositions (BIE),
organiser of the world Expo, has
unanimously agreed to propose the
postponement of Expo 2020 Dubai by one
year to 1 October 2021 – 31 March 2022.
As changing the dates of an Expo requires
the support of a two-thirds majority of
Member States of the BIE (Article 28 of the
Paris Convention of 1928), the organisation’s
General Assembly will now be called upon
to vote on the recommendation. Voting will
be carried out remotely between 24 April
and 29 May 2020.
The name ‘Expo 2020 Dubai will be
retained for the event, despite it now moving
to 2021.
Etihad trials
Covid-19 test
Etihad Airways is the first airline to trial
contactless technology for monitoring
temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate
of travellers.
The UAE flag carrier will partner with
Australian company Elenium Automation to
trial the new technology which allows
self-service devices at airports to be used to
help identify travellers with medical
conditions, potentially including the early
stages of Covid-19.
The technology will provide the monitoring
via an airport touchpoint such as a check-in or
information kiosk, a bag drop facility, a security
point or immigration gate.
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ISSUE 106
Bells toll for Lausanne
Lausanne Notre Dame Cathedral Night
Watchman Renato Häusler is reviving a
tradition from the Middle Ages, by shouting
out from the top of the Cathedral’s 153 steps
on the hour, from 10pm to 2am, to the four
points of the horizon and then ringing the
Clemence Bell.
It is a tradition which dates back to 1405
– where a watchman would keep vigil and
ring the bell if there were something amiss.
It has now taken on a modern poignancy
with Covid-19.
Häusler, who has been night watchman
since 2002, is now daily climbing the stairs
of the cathedral that attracts 400,000
visitors a year.