I have always considered an interesting exercise to review the performance in the year of those start ups that the previous year were nominated as those to follow. In this case, I have selected the list prepared by Travel Massive (TM) of the "50 Travel Startups To Watch In 2020". In their words, some have [...]
The travel industry has suffered for years a myriad of public, semipublic and private organizations that have tried to set the standards and validate the qualify of different categories of travel players, mainly hotels and other types of accommodations. From the legal and more official classifications, we have contemplated many other approaches based on attributes [...]
One of the obvious consequences of the disastrous educations that recent generations have suffered (are suffering) is their incapacity to question the information, gather curated data, try to understand global and complex scenarios and then, try to formulate a personal conclusion. And as Mass Media is assisting to their irremediable progressive irrelevance is mimicking in [...]
It is clear that paper money and coins are a main source of transmission of COVID19. On the other hand, nobody can deny the tremendous negative impact that printing and distributing physical money has in our environment. With the current technologies and the level of mobile adoption in the EU there is no justification not [...]
One of the obvious consequences of the disastrous educations that recent generations have suffered (are suffering) is their incapacity to question the information, gather curated data, try to understand global and complex scenarios and then, try to formulate a personal conclusion. And as Mass Media is assisting to their irremediable progressive irrelevance is mimicking in [...]
Star Alliance, oneworld and SkyTeam – which together have 58 member airlines, representing over 60 per cent of world airline capacity and carrying over 1.87 billion passengers annually prior to the Covid-19 crisis – have come out in support of a report produced by the International Civil Aviation Organization. The updated CART report which, among [...]
There has been a lot of scrutiny about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on airlines and accommodation providers, often because they are considered a critical element of a trip. But beyond the "how you get there" and "where you stay" elements of travel, those that provide what consumers actually do in a destination have [...]
Traditionally, PhocusWire has marked the beginning of The Phocuswright Conference every November with the release of our annual Hot 25 Startups In the midst of the nervousness for the future that many businesses face, these startups deserve to be highlighted in our next Hot 25 Startups list in 2021. The wheels of the industry keep on [...]
Ahora aparece como gran noticia que se va a solicitar para la entrada en España, para aquellos viajeros procedentes de determinados paises, un test PCR negativo. Desde el mes de Abril he propuesto en este mismo medio que se debía exigir para acceder a España un PCR negativo o una serología o test de antígenos [...]
El Banco de España ha publicado un documento en el que analiza los procedimientos de insolvencia, advierte de que si la moratoria concursal aprobada con motivo de la crisis del Covid se alarga en el tiempo, puede contribuir a una mayor supervivencia de empresas inviables o “zombis” que, sin medidas de sostenimiento financiero como las [...]