The aim of this initiative is to incentivise consumers to purchase future travel now with special offers ranging from discounted stays to gift cards to loyalty points for redemption prior to travel.
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To compensate for people not being able to go to the Arima Onsen resort, the company has designed a virtual reality experience that recreates what it is like to relax in one of the country’s many hot springs.
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The planning and architecture company and its designers invented the Hotel2Hospital concept that would relieve hospital bed shortages and help hoteliers weather an economic storm by converting a hotel into a hospital on a short-term basis.
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The app lets you share your past travel experiences with other people to lift spirits during the lockdown and help others find beautiful places to visit after COVID.
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The new programme is launched to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID by implementing measures like mandatory pre-flight temperature checks, health questionnaires, seat assignment policies to allow for more personal space in Economy Class and by providing all customers with care kits for hand cleaning and hygiene.
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The objective of the campaign, in partnership with participating hotels, is to give exclusive discounts of up to 25% to frontline ‘heroes’ for all bookings made via selected channels, from mid-May up until 31st of October.
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The Amsterdam-founded company Zoku introduced its Private WorkLofts for people who can’t work at home and neither go to the office. For €50 per day, guests get ‘a bit of peace and quiet with a room-service lunch included and a room equipped with a kitchen, high-speed Wi-Fi and an office toolbox full of stationaries and other supplies.
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The aim of Hilton is to deliver a new industry-defining standard of cleanliness and disinfection in Hilton properties around the world, creating a cleaner and safer environment for both team members and guests during COVID and after COVID.
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This new app helps businesses around the Gold Coast, Australia, to share updates about their current opening hours as well as new products and offers with customers.
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Kämp Hotel now also offers its room service as a delivery service in the Helsinki area, with The Room Service Menu, designed to honour the classic tastes of Kämp.
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Every week, three new videos are posted on social media showcasing the flowers and blossoming in the park in South Holland. Usually the park welcomes 1.5 million visitors from around the world during its eight-week season between March and May. The team now tries to bring Keukenhof to the people at home via virtual tours.
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The Tower of David Museum has released 'The Holy City', an immersive VR experience that’s free of charge through April 24, the first day of Ramadan. In collaboration with two VR firms, the museum allows users to walk through the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during Easter’s Holy Fire ceremony or with the throngs at the Western Wall as they receive the ancient priestly blessing.
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As restaurants, hairdressers, hotels and many local Italian businesses are struggling, a team of 4 people launched the non-profit platform TorniamoPresto.it to support these local businesses by buying them a gift card to use when they can reopen.
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The islands’ latest tourism initiative enables you to discover its famous landscapes thanks to a camera-wearing local who responds to your commands from anywhere in the world, to virtually show you around the islands
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The Tokyo-based company is marketing its empty fully-furnished apartments as a way for stressed couples to get some time apart during the lockdown, like "temporary shelters" for people to escape the family, whether to work or just get some peace and quiet.
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Instead of Singapore's iconic figure, the beloved Merlion, SBT wrote a cheeky note that says, "BRB, I'm working from home": A sign of solidarity with the "circuit breaker" and employees having to work from home.
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The device is a convenient reminder to employees and customers to maintain a healthy physical distance, staying 6 feet apart from each other. A red alert warns employees and customers when they have gotten too close.
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The Westin Houston medical Center is the first hotel in the US to use LightStrike™ Germ-Zapping Robots™ to combat germs and fight COVID. The robots use UV light to zap germs away across the property — even disinfecting products such as bath amenities and coffee, which are then stored in sealed bags for guests.
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Airbnb launched Online Experiences, a “new way for people to connect, travel virtually, and earn income during the COVID-19 crisis.” Airbnb also partnered with social organisations around the world to provide Online Experiences to elderly people for free so they are able to find human connection during isolation.
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Stay Home enables you to virtually discover a city of your choice (e.g. Berlin, Bangkok, New York). The nonprofit initiative will give all the contribution through the Facebook platform 'COVID-19 Fundraiser' to the World Health Organization to help fight COVID.
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