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Four Day Week To Boost Tourism

Japan considers bringing in four-day week.

Japan's government is considering bringing in a four-day working week aimed at improving people's quality of life, the country's Chief Cabinet Secretary has said.

The authorities intend to consider the introduction of a 'selective three-day weekly holiday system'.

Economists hope that the scheme would also boost the country's tourism industry that has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19: Europeans Expect Relaxed Quarantine Rules

Italy, one of the worst affected by COVID-19, made tourists happy this week by announcing it may start reopening borders on June 2.

What this news means is that international tourism is on its way to full recovery despite the third wave of the pandemic. There will only be one requirement — the person must be fully vaccinated.

Germany seeks talks with Russia about procuring Sputnik V supplies. This goes against the sentiment of the EU in regards to the Russian vaccine.

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Maldives WIll No Longer Test Vaccinated Tourists

”Travelers to Maldives (including tourists) who have completed their two doses of Covid-19 vaccination (recognised by WHO) 2 weeks prior to travel are now exempted from the pre-arrival Negative PCR requirement and do not require to undergo or observe the travel quarantine on arrival to the Maldives", reads the statement from the Ministry of Tourism.

To enter the country visitors must have a negative PCR test certificate in English, made no earlier than 96 hours before the arrival. In addition to this, all travellers to the Maldives must submit a Health Declaration Form by uploading it to the immigration service website no more than 24 hours before departure.

The Maldives, after closing their borders in March 2020, were among the first to reopen them to foreign travellers.

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Europeans Continue Protesting Lockdowns

Last weekend Europe saw new protests against health safety restrictions.

Hundreds of maskless people gathered in the northern Swiss town of Schaffhausen, despite the government disapproval: the town authorities insisted on cancelling the demonstrations, citing potential violation of health safety measures.

In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, protesters briefly blocked the street where the country’s Parliament is situated. The primary grievance communicated to the authorities was the non-existent access to COVID vaccines in the country.

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Spain To Open Islands For Tourists In June

In March, the Spanish authorities announced that by June a digital green certificate will be operational, allowing tourists to enter the country, including Ibiza, Mallorca and the rest of the Balearic islands. Spain's general secretary of Digital Health, Information and Innovation has announced that recently-developed COVID-19 passports — officially recognised as Digital Green Certificates — will allow EU residents to enter the country without coronavirus testing or quarantine

In a press conference on the national television, Spain’s tourism minister Reyes Maroto said that the certificates would allow Spain to "reopen safely" and be "pioneers" in global tourism following the coronavirus pandemic, as well as providing "safe mobility" for tourists.

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Italy Prepares For Tourists

In the near future Italian authorities might start the process of reopening the country for international travel, previously sealed shut due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The opening is supposed to happen on Republic Day, celebrated nationwide on June 2.
Italy’s Tourism Minister, Massimo Garavaglia, says the government is looking at three key conditions for allowing visitors in: they must be either fully vaccinated, have the certificates proving their immunity, or have a negative COVID-19 test result. In addition to that, the local population at popular resorts will have to vaccinate too.

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Hainan Saw Tourism Profits Quadruple In One Year

Such rapid recovery is spurred by the continued COVID-19 restrictions on international tourism, making the island a prime domestic tourist destination.

By 2025, Hainan authorities aim to reshape the province into an “international tourism and consumer hub”. This Chinese island is often called the “Eastern Hawaii'' due to its scenic landscape, tropical vegetation and a well-developed network of hotels. Its 1.9 thousand kilometers long coastline of sandy beach makes for a holiday destination sought after by vacationers from all over the world.

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Spain Hotels Resist Foreign Buyers

Spain has become a magnet for foreign real estate investors, providing a great opportunity to buy resort hotels at a discount after the covid crisis has ravaged the tourism industry.

However, thanks to support from the government, local hoteliers are holding onto their property.

In an effort to save the local market, the government is aiding the industry through incentive programs and subsidies.

In 2020 Spain suffered an 80% drop in profits from tourism, forcing most chain and family-owned hotels to close down. It used to be the second most visited country in the world. Dozens of international real estate funds saw this as a prime opportunity to buy up the local industry at a discount.

Thanks to vacation programs and government-backed loans, hotels managed to survive 2020 without changing hands too much. Nonetheless, there are sellers out there.

Italy is going through a similar situation, where real estate investors are seeking out opportunities to renovate hotels before mass tourism comes back, which is believed to happen sometime after 2023.

In Greece, large hotel chains, such as Four Seasons, opened their doors ahead of time, promoting renewed investor interest in the local market. Several dozen three to four-star hotels have been foreclosed and sold off to new owners.

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Another Catastrophic Year Ahead For Turkey

A worrying surge in Covid-19 cases in Turkey combined with the continued global decline in tourism is threatening Ankara’s hopes for recovery, a Washington DC-based news outlet Al-Monitor reports.

The Turkish government is being criticized for its ineffective management of the pandemic crisis. The surge in cases is forcing Ankara to reimplement lockdown measures, shattering the hopes for European countries that constitute the majority of tourist traffic to Turkey to relax some of the travel restrictions ahead of the upcoming tourist season.

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Brazilian Coronavirus Variant Threatens International Tourism In 2021

A new strain of coronavirus seen spreading across Brazil appears to be twice as contagious as other COVID strains. This has the potential to negatively affect the epidemiologic situation in the world and even a new round of air travel restrictions.

If governments don’t stop the new strain from spreading, the situation might take a turn for the worse for tourists and other travelers: the Brazilian variant has already been spotted in 36 countries.

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No Less Than 28$: Egypt Hotel Prices

Over the past few years Egyptian lawmakers and hoteliers have battled over regulation of the country’s hospitality market, namely, minimum hotel rates. This would give the local businesses some legal leverage in negotiations with foreign contractors and partners, as well as an argument for increasing prices.

Khaled al-Anany, the first Minister of Antiquities and Tourism, has recently signed a resolution setting the minimum nightly rate at hotels in Egypt. The Minister’s decision came after consulting with the Egyptian Tourism Federation on standardizing hotel rates. The rate for four-star hotels will be set at US $28, or its equivalent, and the minimum nightly fee for a hotel room in a five-star establishment will be US $40, or its equivalent in foreign currency.

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Israel Is Back On The Tourist Map

The country’s Tourism Minister Orit Farkash-Hacohen has presented a recovery and development plan for the industry:

 1. International tourism incentive program.
 2. Cultural, sporting and entertainment events designed to boost tourism. These events are planned to take place in Israel in the coming months.
 3. Reopen air travel to Eilat.
 4. Develop a pilot reopening project for vaccinated tourists starting May 23.

Orit Farkash-Hacohen added: "It is our time to utilize Israel's huge advantage as a health-safe destination, and harness it for the benefit of our empty coffers and the tourism industry, which includes hundreds of thousands of workers. I think it is about time that the huge advantage that Israel has as a healthy and vaccinated destination [is harnessed]".

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EU Believes Vaccination Is Crucial For Saving European Tourism

"The pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis in the tourism industry. Hotel room prices dropped 50% in 2020, and cross border tourism shrunk by about 70%. The crisis has affected millions of jobs, and obviously, the same number of families", said Thierry Breton, an European Commissioner for Internal Market in Brussels.

Nonetheless, he has "hope as the vacation season is on the horizon".

"First of all, it's the EU's vaccination strategy... I believe that 70% of EU adults will have access to the vaccine before mid-June", he added, saying it will be the main factor for allowing travel.

He has also stressed that the EU green certificate will play an important part in rebuilding the travel industry, and might be introduced in June.

He has emphasized the need for everyone to comply with the existing health safety requirements and for the hospitality industry to be prepared for the coming season.

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Going To Change Hotel Stays

In these trying times the ModiHost team is striving to help hoteliers all over the world to optimize their businesses using high efficiency tech. Living through change is never easy, but as they say, it’s always darkest before the dawn

What is ModiHost?

ModiHost is a new platform for hotels that uses artificial intelligence to offer a better hotel management system, centered around personalization of the guest experience. We offer a solution for remembering guest preferences and anticipating their needs that most hotels wouldn’t be able to employ on their own.

This is important!

We have built an AI-based platform that can maximize hotel revenue, boost occupancy rates and increase guest satisfaction. It will drive greater efficiencies for hospitality providers, ranging from small motels and boutique hotels to larger chains. This will enable them to compete with the leading hotel giants as well as sharing economy services such as Airbnb. The latter is especially important during a pandemic, when services such as Airbnb have become the go-to for most travelers.

How the platform is beneficial to guests

Everyone loves having personal touch applied to their service. The platform will remember all previous orders, in-room dining, bookings, concierge requests and all other details of the guest's stay. The platform analyzes this data and offers appropriate options from the moment the guest checks in.

Needless to say, that system gathers information from a person's previous stays, which helps to upsell the  hotel’s products. When you know a person's habits – preferred breakfast time, preferred food, favorite juice, favorite coffee, you name it – Modihost can predict the needs of the guest.

It helps to bring service to another level, no matter how big or small the hotel. When guests feel how important they are, how personalized the experience in the hotel is for them – they will want to come back next time. Now, as hotels come back from the crisis, they will be looking for anything they can do to cut costs and drive rates, which is where ModiHost comes in.

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