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Etihad Airways has teamed up with DUBZ to transform passengers' place of residence into a subsidiary of the airport. Passengers will be able to complete their check-in formalities in advance. This includes not only baggage, but also seat selection and the issuing of boarding passes from home. A test...

The seven countries affected by the new restrictions imposed by France are Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Sri Lanka and Turkey. They join five other countries already considered to be at high risk of contagion since April 24 (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South Africa and...

FREENOW for Business has published a practical, costed guide to kick-starting the resumption of business travel without exposing travellers to risk, and thereby fulfilling every company's duty to protect. Starting from a simple but unavoidable observation - "The world has changed, mobility must be rethought...

There's a wind of panic blowing through Asia, and it's coming from India. The Covid-19 pandemic in the world's second most populous country seems to be out of control. In just one month, the number of Covid-positive cases has almost doubled. As of yesterday, India had 21.07...

While we wait for collective immunity to the Covid-19 virus, vaccination campaigns are being stepped up worldwide. However, there are major variations from one continent to another. These are the findings of an investigation by the New York Times. In partnership with the University of Oxford, the American daily has created a Covid barometer, which analyses the state of...

As vaccination campaigns make headway around the world, and with summer approaching and the precious revenues from tourism on the horizon, Europe is working to reopen its territory. American travellers had already been given the green light by the President of the European Commission a few days ago, provided they had been...

The European aviation, travel and tourism industries* have issued a statement welcoming the European Parliament's vote on the proposal for an EU regulation on a digital green certificate. The vote paves the way for technical negotiations between the Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission....

Hyatt was one of the last major hotel groups not to reveal its plans for hybrid meetings. Now it has, with the presentation of its 'Together by Hyatt' series of event packages. The programme has been designed around four themes: technology, of course, but also expertise, the kind that Hyatt can offer organisers...

The hotel industry is continuing its efforts to offer travellers more and more ways of exercising while away from home. This 'fitness' trend was already well under way before the health crisis, but the repeated confinements have undoubtedly reinforced the need for everyone to exercise. According to the Louvre Hotels group, the...

Grounded for more than a year by the health crisis, the French are looking for the key that will enable them to travel again for business or pleasure. And the digital health passport now seems to embody this solution for lifting restrictions on international travel, as shown by the growing number of initiatives...

The "Travel Pass" club continues to expand to new horizons: a few days after the announcement of its adoption by the Singaporean authorities, it is now the turn of Latin America to experiment with the solution promoted by IATA. Iberia intends to be at the forefront, with a trial launched on the Madrid-Montevideo route. The...

American Airlines has just announced a series of tests deployed at its Dallas Fort Worth hub, with a common denominator: the contactless passenger journey. The airline intends to change the airport experience in order to regain the trust of travellers: "While fewer customers have travelled over the past year, our...

Jean Castex made it official on Thursday: since the evening of 19 March, confinement has once again been in force in 16 French departments, in Ile-de-France and Hauts-de-France, as well as in Alpes-Maritimes, Eure and Seine-Maritime. The measure will apply for at least four weeks, "unless positive results are observed in the meantime" ....

Updated on 29 March. The European Commission wants to give EU citizens back their freedom to move freely within the EU's borders. This is a gamble that has so far been largely lost due to the various confinement and quarantine measures taken by EU members. The Commission wants to put an end to this...

While Air France has been trialling the ICC AOKpass health certificate on its flights from Paris-CDG to Pointe-à-Pitre and Fort-de-France since 11 March, the Minister Delegate for Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, sees a bright future for these solutions, which make travel more fluid through the secure, digital verification of Covid tests. "It can...

The future of travel is on the move. And while we know that the road ahead will be a long one, Singapore is already showing the way. Buoyed by the success of its sanitary measures, the Asian hub intends to take in its wake all the players likely to shape the travel of tomorrow, and with it the organisation of MICE events...

Qatar has just announced that foreign visitors and all expatriates will now have to have health insurance in order to receive treatment within the country. The announcement was made after a ministerial council meeting. The council legislated on the overhaul of the country's healthcare system, particularly in the face of the pandemic. The new...

While predictions are multiplying as to when international business travellers will be able to resume, some market players are already hard at work putting concrete options in place, and in fact speeding up the recovery timetable. This is the case in Singapore, which has been working hard since the beginning of the crisis to explore...

Are touch screens on the way out? The fact remains that the health crisis has highlighted the limitations of this technology, which is practical but potentially guilty of spreading the virus... Qatar Airways has therefore just announced on 22 February that it will be using contactless in-flight entertainment technology for Oryx One. "The introduction...

It's one of the major technological trends linked to Covid-19: contactless technology is making a quantum leap over touch screens, in response to obvious health constraints, particularly in the places most frequented by business travellers, such as airports and hotels. So Samsung is bringing itself up to date with a...