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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.

News Update

3 Bbc.com / April 5, 2021 / Neutral


Covid Greece: Waiting for the tourists to come back

4 Bangkokpost.com / April 5, 2021 / Neutral


Thailand: Hoping for a miracle

5 Nytimes.com / April 5, 2021 / Neutral


Covid-19: Johnson & Johnson Put in Charge of Plant That Ruined Millions of
Vaccine Doses

6 Centreforaviation.com / April 5, 2021 / Neutral


AirAsia Group airlines anticipate strong recovery in 2Q

7 Arabnews.com / April 4, 2021 / Neutral


Dubai partners with Amazon to promote e-commerce for SMEs

8 Dw.com / April 4, 2021 / Neutral


Hundreds of tourists turned back from German state over COVID restrictions
9 Ttnworldwide.com / April 4, 2021 / Neutral
Ethiopian On-Time Performance surpasses industry average

10 Wsj.com / April 4, 2021 / Neutral


Alaska Tourism Is Ailing but Not From Covid

11 Manilastandard.net / April 4, 2021 / Neutral


Singapore teases travel-hungry Filipinos with Zi Char dishes

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