What countries tourism industry would you expect to be heavily impacted by COVID-19? Greece, France, Smaller island nations even, however one country many people would not expect is North Korea. Yesterday an article from Forbes was posted explaining how North Korea’s tourism industry has been affected by COVID-19. The article ...
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New Regulations Allow Airlines to Cut Summer Flights by 90%
In a Bloomberg article published on April 8th (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/airlines-to-cut-summer-flights-up-to-90-with-rebound-far-off), new summer plans for how the airline industry will proceed is discussed. The U.S came out with new regulations regarding service disruptions and the power that individual airlines now have when reducing routes. As the current pandemic situation looks like it ...
Read More »GM is producing ventilators now.
There are more than 30,000 cases have been diagnosed per day last week. During this pandemic crisis, all over the world are facing a shortage of medical supplies such as surgical masks, goggles, protective coveralls, and ventilators. With increasing production, more and more masks were produced. However, how about the ...
Read More »New car sales crisis as COVID19 continues
Estimated trade impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic on the automotive sector as of February 2020, by market(in million U.S. dollars) byStatista U.K. new car sales crisis and cases study By: Nattanai Kuprasert The automotive industry has been hit hard from the outbreak and continuation of COVID19. The cities or ...
Read More »Impact of Coronavirus on Automobile Industry
How many of you have driven your cars, or bought a new car, since we’ve been home from school? I assume most of you probably haven’t, and even if you have it has problably been very limited. The coronavirus has had a significant impact on business as a whole, and ...
Read More »Coronavirus is grounding the world’s airlines
As of Apr. 6th, the global patients of COVID-19 have exceeded 1.2 million, and the death total over 100,000. This is a global tragedy and crisis. In the United States, there are over 300,000 COVID-19 patients; The country has become a disaster zone. To prevent widespread infection, many countries have ...
Read More »Coronavirus On The Economy -Lolita Bell, 4/5/20
Life is currently on pause right now and businesses are struggling. For example, Mark Canlis restaurant in Seattle was selling a 135 dollar tasting menu only two weeks ago every night. Now Marks restaurant is going to become a drive-through that will serve burgers. Barely holding up what he used ...
Read More »Amazonification in Retail industry
https://onezero.medium.com/coronavirus-is-speeding-up-the-amazonification-of-the-planet-21cb20d16372 Retail industry is facing global crisis and this recession hits everywhere. Small shops are closing permanently and laying off their workers because they can’t afford them and other huge retail companies are doing the same as most of their business is shut down. However, ecommerce is the only kind ...
Read More »COVID-19 and the Global Wildlife Trade
It may be hard to imagine that something that has devastated the human species in so many ways is helping every other animal. COVID-19 was discovered from a bat in global wildlife trade. The good news is that according to George Wittemyer’s recent post in the journal, The Conversation, many ...
Read More »How COVID-19 is Effecting Mexico’s Tourism Industry
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) spread across the world, the global economy is taking a massive hit. The tourism industry specifically is bearing the brunt of the virus’ effect on the economy. With most people on a stay-at-home order no one is traveling at the moment and airports have become deserted. ...
Read More »6.6 million Americans filed unemployment claims
To date, more than 216,000 confirmed cases and 5,137 deaths have occurred in the United States. More than 39 of the 50 states in the United States are implementing strictly restricting any unnecessary travel activities of the people, which means that about 80% of the people in the United States ...
Read More »Let’s go on a cruise. Wait, not so much now.
In this uncertain circumstance due to COVID-19, the cruise industry has been one of the most impacted industries. After the incident of Diamond Princess which caused 7 deaths so far, cruise lines are canceling future voyages and passengers need protection from it. We have witnessed that cruise ships can be ...
Read More »Many of the World’s Airline’s May be going Bankrupt due to COVID-19
Air travel has been one of the hardest-hit industries in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost immediately after news of the virus became widespread in January, the travel demand to Asia plummeted. As the virus has now spread across continents, to Europe and now the Americas, passenger demand ...
Read More »How the Government is Influencing the Aviation Industry Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has now spread to every corner of the world, and a lot of that has to do with the aviation industry. When passengers boarded planes, they carried with them a disease that would bring upon thousands of deaths. Because airplanes have taken such a large part in the spread ...
Read More »“US: Five Ways COVID-19 Could Derail Renewables.”
The Smart/Renewable Energy industry is heavily impacted by the spread of COVID-19. I chose to read an article from Smart Energy International titled “US: Five Ways COVID-19 Could Derail Renewables” by Philip Gordon. This article is from March 27th, 2020, so it is very recent. This has to do with ...
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