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What’s Trending
01/ On Google
‘Spring Break Travel 2022’ trended +4,750% this week as travelers continue to plan for their school vacations.
‘Will gas prices affect airfare’ trended +3,050 as the cost of gas soars.
02/ With Media
This week journalists expressed interest in LGBTQ travel, destination spas and budget-friendly vacations.
03/ In The Zeitgeist
Amid another wave of heavy news around the world, a new hotline called Peptoc launched, providing callers with cheerful messages from kindergartners to boost happiness. Its menu options include words of encouragement, life advice, pep talks and laughter.
On International Women’s Day, a viral Gender Pay Gap Bot on Twitter reposted companies’ performative messaging adding data that called out the real gender-based pay discrepancies and inequalities each hold.
Industry Insights
Super Commuters, hybrid workers who live in the suburbs but commute and stay at hotels in the city for in-office work days, are the newest rising trend in remote work. Some hotels have created packages that offer these travelers better amenities like parking, low midweek rates, and after work drinks and entertainment.
Hotels.com’s 2022 Amenity Report announced new rising amenity preferences for American travelers including spas, in-room kitchens and connecting rooms.
Hostelworld and G Adventures have partnered to announce ‘Roamies,’ a collection of group tours designed for young travelers staying in hostels across the world. The collection consists of 38 trips in 15 countries with small groups of 16-24 travelers.
After early stages of the pandemic forced many engaged couples to elope, cancel ceremonies, and downsize, destination weddings are officially having a comeback with many destinations offering new ceremony settings and culinary options for upcoming nuptials.
TSA has expanded precheck to the first international destination in the Bahamas at Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau.
Best Practices
01/ The Good
In honor of International Women's Day, U.K. Channel 4 created a ‘manterruptions’ campaign depicting a man interrupting a female announcer on live television. Using the tagline #LetHerFinish, its goal sought to amplify the voices of female professionals and bring attention to the fact that men are 33% more likely to interrupt a woman than a male counterpart.
02/ The Bad
Kim Kardashian faced intense criticism this week after a video went viral of the star sharing advice to women, while lacking complete awareness of privilege. In the video, she states “I have the best advice for women in business. Get your f*ing ass up and work. It seems like nobody wants to work these days.”
Covid-Related Updates
March’s travel restrictions are the most flexible they have been since the resumption of international travel. Travelers can now visit Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Italy, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Australia and many Latin American countries with ease. Ireland has even removed COVID-19 restrictions entirely for vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
The CDC still warns Americans against traveling to Thailand, New Zealand and Hong Kong due to increasing cases of Covid-19, and Spain will now require travelers to show proof of boosters if more than 237 days have passed since an initial vaccine was given.
Based on CDC recommendations, the TSA extended the mask mandate on public transportation and in public transportation hubs until April 18, 2022. The agency vocalized its openness to revising the termination of the policy once the science supports it.
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