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AirAsia Airbus A320-200 planes are seen on the tarmac of Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2) in Sepang, Malaysia, February 4, 2020. Reuters / Lim Huey Teng
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Air China Boeing 777-300ER aircraft taking off from Beijing Capital International Airport. Alan Wilson / Flickr
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Trip.com CEO Jane Sun is seeing signs of recovery in China’s domestic travel market as the coronavirus crisis subsides in the country. Trip.com
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Venice’s usually overcrowded streets are now void of tourists as the coronavirus spreads to Europe, with Italy being one of the worst-hit countries. Francisco Seco / Associated Press
Skift Take: While the virus threat will eventually subside and tourists will throng its streets again, Venice still has to grapple with a long-term, existential challenge that is climate change.
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A Flybe aircraft in the sky. The airline has collapsed. Catherine Singleton / Flickr
Skift Take: Flybe might be the first, but it probably won’t be the last. Plenty of airlines across the world operate on pretty tight margins, which come under increasing pressure during times like this.
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Sidmouth, Devon, a popular holiday spot in the UK. Philip Goddard / Flickr
Skift Take: The coronavirus has many victims in the travel and tourism industry. However, one upside may be in the UK, where holiday-hungry Britons will change their international travel plans for domestic ones.
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The Louvre museum has now reopened. Christophe Ena / AP Photo
Skift Take: Tourism marketers are facing somewhat of a conundrum: The optics of tourism campaigns during widespread panic can fall flat, but failing to market low-risk destinations may make a bad problem even worse.
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Flybe, a UK regional airline, is going out of business, according to reports. Transport Pixels / Flickr
Skift Take: If this coronavirus panic drags on, we may see otherwise healthy airlines go bust. But that is not the case here. Flybe was in trouble well before coronavirus.
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Asia tourism is bracing for more challenging times ahead as the virus spreads outside of Asia. Meanwhile, operators in countries like Laos have been less affected, in part due to scant media coverage of the country. Sasha Popovic / Flickr
Skift Take: It’s likely to get worse before it gets better for the Asian tourism industry. But forward-thinking players will know to take advantage of the current downtime to meet the pent-up demand for travel once recovery comes — which may not be far off.
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