Tag: pandemic
COVID-19 Pandemic: No Time for Fiscal Distancing
Apolinari Tairo - eTN Tanzania- April 8, 2020 00:38Africa is now facing challenging times and difficult days with almost all nations within the continent working to contain then control the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. African countries that ... Read More
Travel Agents Association of India: We Cannot Process Refunds
Linda Hohnholz, eTN editor- April 7, 2020 21:39Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) is the nodal and premier Travel & Tourism association in India. Today, Jyoti Mayal, President of TAAI, issued the following statement in response to ... Read More
Italy in times of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic
Elisabeth Lang - special to eTN- April 4, 2020 19:13This week, Italy was paying tribute to those who have died from the COVID-19 coronavirus by flying flags at half-mast. So many people have been infected in the country including ... Read More
World Health Organization declares COVID-19 coronavirus a pandemic
editor- March 11, 2020 20:25The World Health Organization (WHO) wants to shock lethargic countries into pulling out all the stops in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus. To achieve this end, the U.N. health agency ... Read More
Jamaica Tourism Minister Bartlett new cooperation with President Clinton on Tourism Resilience
Juergen T Steinmetz- June 4, 2019 16:39Alongside President and Secretary Clinton, Jamaica's Minister for Tourism, the Hon. Edmund Bartlett spoke today the ongoing 4th meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Action Network on Post-Disaster Recovery ... Read More
Jamaica Global Resilience Centre to open in October
editor- May 8, 2019 23:04Jamaica Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre is scheduled to open by the first week in October at a newly refurbished J$27 ... Read More
WTTC launches global taskforce on human trafficking
editor- April 4, 2019 22:40The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has today announced the formation of a global taskforce to help prevent and combat human trafficking - an illicit activity that affects 30 ... Read More
Avoiding dangerous vacations 2018
Hon. Thomas A. Dickerson- September 19, 2018 21:27This is the sixth year that we have posted dangerous vacations destination information collected from news articles and reported law cases. Read More
Swine flu update
editor- June 12, 2009 08:10The World Health Organization (WHO) today affirmed that there is a swine flu pandemic, which simply means the virus has now spread to more than one region of the world. Read More
SWINE FLU WATCH: No risk of getting influenza A(H1N1) virus through food, says World Health Organization
editor- May 4, 2009 11:14There is no reason to be afraid of consuming pork or to cull any pigs, the United Nations health agency once again stressed today, despite the detection of the influenza ... Read More
Applying tourism’s lessons learned from SARS to swine flu
editor- April 29, 2009 12:25The global tourism industry is right to be concerned about swine flu and its potential impact on global tourism. Read More
Indonesia: On the brink of “human flu pandemic?”
editor- March 20, 2008 22:46(eTN) - Describing the current bird flu situation in Indonesia as "critical,” the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) has warned the continuing outbreak could lead the virus to ... Read More