As the pandemic continues, airlines without customers and hotel groups with empty properties and unemployed staff, are desperate to reopen for business. Photo: Getty Images As the pandemic continues, airlines without customers and hotel groups with empty properties and unemployed staff, are desperate to reopen for business. Photo: Getty Images
As the pandemic continues, airlines without customers and hotel groups with empty properties and unemployed staff, are desperate to reopen for business. Photo: Getty Images
Tourism
Style /  Luxury

How China, Singapore, Thailand and Japan are rebooting tourism, as luxury brands like LVMH’s Belmond look to online options to engage guests for post-Covid-19 travel

While governments are encouraging domestic travel, resorts like Chiva-Som in Thailand are offering virtual online experiences to maintain their brand presence and engage with potential guests for a post-pandemic travel bounce back – but can a virtual holiday really cure your cabin fever?

Topic |   Tourism
Richard Lord
Richard Lord

Updated: 10:00am, 3 Sep, 2020

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As the pandemic continues, airlines without customers and hotel groups with empty properties and unemployed staff, are desperate to reopen for business. Photo: Getty Images As the pandemic continues, airlines without customers and hotel groups with empty properties and unemployed staff, are desperate to reopen for business. Photo: Getty Images
As the pandemic continues, airlines without customers and hotel groups with empty properties and unemployed staff, are desperate to reopen for business. Photo: Getty Images
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