UNWTO joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Spain in the recent High-Level Meeting on Safe International Travel held in Ibiza on 7-8 July. SPAIN, BTNp: THE HIGH-Level Meeting focused on the lessons learned from the impact of the pandemic on international mobility and tourism, to build resilience to face future crises….
BALI, BTNp: TAKING place at a critical time in a COVID-19-affected world, the seventh session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022) offers a timely opportunity to renew commitments, increase ambition, and accelerate progress on disaster risk reduction (DRR). In advance of the meeting, Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for DRR…
Geneva, BTNp: THE INTERNATIONAL Air Transport Association (IATA) welcomed new guidance from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) removing its recommendation that masks should be required in-flight. EASA’s updated Aviation Health Safety Protocol, published 11 May, calls for the mandatory mask rule to be relaxed where rules have been relaxed for other transport modes. This…
Geneva, BTNp: THE INTERNATIONAL Air Transport Association (IATA) announced passenger data for March 2022 demonstrating that the recovery of air travel continues. Impacts from the conflict in Ukraine on air travel demand were quite limited overall while Omicron-related effects continued to be confined largely to Asian domestic markets. The war in Ukraine, which began on…