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Electric aircraft and bumblebees cannot fly

For decades the theoreticians proved that bumblebees could not fly and were extremely irritated that they continued to fly anyway – using different equations. Much the same thing is happening with fixed-wing battery-electric aircraft. They were supposed to be impossible, but over one hundred are up there with around 1000 on order. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Power of community shines through IMEX America learning program

According to the Dalai Lama: “Without the human community, one single human being cannot survive.” The importance of community resonates throughout the learning program at IMEX America, November 9-11, with sessions covering the power of storytelling, shared values, and human nature. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

3 more COVID-19 cases confirmed in New Zealand

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said genome sequencing results confirmed that it is the Delta variant that is linked to genome sequencing of cases in Australia's New South Wales outbreak. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Leisure travel is a safe bet for Air France

Air France has announced the extension into winter of what are typically summer-only flights from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Seville, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Tangier, Faro, Djerba, and Krakow. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

US travel mask mandate to be extended through mid-January 2022

US mask mandate requires face masks to be worn by all travelers on airplanes, ships, trains, subways, buses, taxis and ride-shares and at transportation hubs such as airports, bus or ferry terminals, train and subway stations, and seaports. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Russia resumes flights to Czech Republic, Dominican Republic and South Korea

Following discussions and considering the epidemiological situation in certain countries, the decision was made to lift restrictions on international regular and non-regular (charter) flights from Russian airports to the Dominican Republic, South Korea and the Czech Republic starting from August 27, 2021. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Powerful earthquake rocks Alaska Peninsula

The peninsula is a seismic hotspot, and sits over the meeting point of the North Pacific and North American tectonic plates. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Brand USA Keeps India on its Virtual Radar

The Brand USA global marketplace is unique in many ways, not the least of which was conveyed in a message loud and clear to India travel and tourism stakeholders that the United States is serious about getting the India market back, once travel is back in place, post COVID. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News

Seychelles Minister for Tourism Calls on DMCs

Continuing his mission to familiarize himself with tourism industry partners and their products, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism and Principal Secretary for Tourism, Ambassador Sylvestre Radegonde, met with several destination management companies on Thursday, August 12, 2021. - eTurboNews | Trends | Travel News