Alex Dichter, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, has revealed that recoveries, of top 10 markets in tourism expenditures will happen earliest by 2022, and latest by 2025. India is at the 5th position in the list, expecting to recover by 2022-23, according to his presentation at Future Hospitality Summit.

Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DCGA) has approved 60 per cent of the capacity for Indian scheduled operators as directed by MoCA. As many as 12,983 departures per week have been finalised covering 95 airports for the domestic winter schedule effective from 25 October 2020 to 27 March 2021, down by 44.3 per cent from 23,307 departures per week in winter 2019-20.

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According to a recent survey by Travel Consul, to study the impact of COVID-19 on the industry and the future recovery of global travel distribution, there could be a 67% drop in business volume (revenue) in Q1 2021 compared to the same period in 2019-2020. More than 1,000 travel executives (tour operators and agency owners) participated from more than 20 countries in the global survey.

Beach shacks in Goa are likely to start opening from November, according to Nikhil Desai, Managing Director, Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC). “Shack allotment process across the state is already underway and we are expecting them to open in November,” he said. According to reports, the GTDC earlier this week started demarcating Goa’s north coastal belt which includes Candolim, Calangute and, Anjuna. It is believed that the demarcation process in South Goa will happen after that.

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There is a 5% increase in full-time work and layoffs in September as compared to June, reveals a Travel Consul Survey titled Global Travel Distribution- COVID-19 Impact’. 36% respondents informed that they moved from full time to part time, while  26% travel professionals said that they have laid-off majority of their team.

IATA is working with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to put in place scalable, affordable and fast testing systems, revealed Conrad Clifford, Regional Vice-President Asia Pacific, IATA. Alexandre De Juniac, Director General & CEO, IATA had also said last week, “We have a solution to open borders while mitigating the risk of importing COVID-19 through air travel. That is universal testing. There is testing technology that aligns with our requirements for speed, accuracy, affordability, scalability and ease of use in the travel process. And we are seeing momentum towards implementation.”

A total of 39.43 lakh domestic passengers travelled by air in September this year, 66 per cent lower than the corresponding period last year, the country’s aviation regulator DGCA said on Wednesday. As many as 21.07 lakh and 28.32 lakh people travelled by air domestically this July and August, respectively, the regulator had said last month.

Taking cue from the work from home trend during COVID, Dubai has launched a new programme, under which overseas remote working professionals can stay in Dubai and continue to work for their companies in their home country. This move would allow remote workers – and their families – the opportunity to re-locate, on an annual basis, to the emirate and take advantage of emirate’s strong digital infrastructure, robust connectivity, safe and high-quality lifestyle, global networking opportunities and zero income tax for individuals.