By Andrew Gogus, Community Manager at HotelRunner
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How hotels and OTAs can prepare for the post-pandemic future Photo: HotelRunner
At the time, the negative impact on global travel of the Great Recession in 2008, the Icelandic ash cloud in 2010 and, of course, 9/11, were considered unprecedented . The ash cloud resulted in 95,000 flights being cancelled over five days, and 9/11 saw a ban on all civil air traffic from entering US air space for three days. However, that was BC (before COVID). It s been well over a year since the first case of COVID-19 was declared by China and it s only now that we are beginning to understand what unprecedented really looks like.