U.S. hotel occupancy has reached its highest levels since the pandemic began at 85% of 2019 levels, driven by declining COVID infection rates, increased vaccination, and affordable and available travel. Dubai launched a new strategy to double the number of creative companies to 15,000 and increase the creative industries' GDP contribution to 5% by 2025 through legal and investment upgrades, incentives, and a framework to measure the creative economy sector's scale and impact. Covid continues to impact the tourism industries in Greece, Thailand, and parts of Germany as countries hope for a recovery through increased vaccination.
U.S. hotel occupancy has reached its highest levels since the pandemic began at 85% of 2019 levels, driven by declining COVID infection rates, increased vaccination, and affordable and available travel. Dubai launched a new strategy to double the number of creative companies to 15,000 and increase the creative industries' GDP contribution to 5% by 2025 through legal and investment upgrades, incentives, and a framework to measure the creative economy sector's scale and impact. Covid continues to impact the tourism industries in Greece, Thailand, and parts of Germany as countries hope for a recovery through increased vaccination.
U.S. hotel occupancy has reached its highest levels since the pandemic began at 85% of 2019 levels, driven by declining COVID infection rates, increased vaccination, and affordable and available travel. Dubai launched a new strategy to double the number of creative companies to 15,000 and increase the creative industries' GDP contribution to 5% by 2025 through legal and investment upgrades, incentives, and a framework to measure the creative economy sector's scale and impact. Covid continues to impact the tourism industries in Greece, Thailand, and parts of Germany as countries hope for a recovery through increased vaccination.
Coordinating Deputy of Tourism and Creative Economy
Global Tourism and Creative Economy News Update
Monday, 5th April 2021
Top News
1 Traveloffpath.com / April 5, 2021 / Neutral
U.S. Hotel Occupancy Reaches Highest Levels Since The Pandemic Began The article reports on the current hotel situation in the U.S. According to Wyndham Group data, hotel occupancy in the U.S. has continued to increase in the last two weeks. The occupancy levels are now back to 85 percent of where they were in 2019. Factors surrounding these improvements are the declining national Covid-19 infection numbers, vaccine distribution, and the affordability and availability of travel.
2 Gulfbusiness.com / April 4, 2021 / Neutral
Dubai launches new strategy to double companies and jobs in the creative sector Dubai government introduced a creative economy strategy that aims to double the number of creative companies based in the emirate from 8,300 to 15,000 within the next five years and to double the creative industries’ GDP contribution to 5 per cent of Dubai’s economy by 2025, up from 2.6 per cent at the end of 2020. The strategy includes upgrading the legal and investment environment, providing packages, incentives, creative incubators, integrated zone and the launch of ‘creative economy classification and measurement framework’, a tool that serves to measure the scale and impact of Dubai creative economy sector.
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3 Bbc.com / April 5, 2021 / Neutral
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