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The data picture has gotten considerably worse in the past week, according to the U.S. Travel Association‘s update to the previous report (3/16/2020) by Tourism Economics.
In a newly released report on March 24, 2020, revised projections show a worsening impact of the coronavirus on the U.S. economy estimating a loss of 5.9 million jobs by the end of April due to declining travel. Read the full 15-page report here.
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American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) released a state-by-state breakdown of COVID-19’s direct impact on hotel and hotel-related jobs. According to the data gathered in mid-March, 44% of hotel employees in every state—or 1,005,955 people—have lost or will lose their jobs due to drastic declines in hotel occupancy. See the research conducted by Tourism Economics here.
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Ezoic is publishing reports on “How Coronavirus is Affecting Ad Rates and Website Traffic” with daily live time-stamped updates. “About one month ago, Travel and Tourism’s impression share was roughly 8%. This graph shows us that around March 11, Travel & Tourism began quickly losing impression shares and that the trend is continual. Now, the vertical has shrunk to 2.5%. Dining and Nightlife have also experienced decline.”
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In addition, Coronavirus is speeding up the death of local newsrooms like the 40-year-old Detroit Metro Times and San Diego Magazine, just folded after 72 years, for lack of content, events and ad revenue. Other publishers are having to make a difficult decision: lift paywalls for coronavirus-related articles or keep paywalls. Get the details here.
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If you care to track of all publicly available information on scientific advancements, clinical trials, FDA status, funding sources and timelines, Milken Institute keeps a list of all treatments and vaccines currently in development. Go to the site here.
In addition to “The Best Interactive Maps to Track COVID-19,” there’s are further resources available.
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CNBC reports on “How volunteers from tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google built a coronavirus-tracking site in six days.” working with Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, a group of 30 volunteers from tech companies like Apple, Amazon and Alphabet put together a website called “covidnearyou.org” that aims to track the coronavirus as it spreads.
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“As COVID-19 spreads, so does its devastation on how Americans feel about travel.” In the latest wave of Destination Analysts’ Coronavirus Travel Sentiment tracking study (collected March 20-22), nearly two-thirds (64.3%) of the 1,200+ American leisure and business travelers surveyed said their travel had been upended by the virus. This is up 20% from just one week prior and nearly six times what it was on February 22. More details here.
Sparkloft Media is providing a Weekly Coronavirus Traveler Sentiment Analysis Report with insights into how customers are thinking. You can visit their site to sign up here.
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