Month: January 2021

Survey Shows 31% of Those Who Traveled after COVID-19 Stayed in a Short-term/Vacation Rental

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Survey Shows 31% of Those Who Traveled after COVID-19 Stayed in a Short-term/Vacation Rental


Last week, VRM Intel conducted a consumer survey through Google to get an idea about how many people traveled in 2020 after March (After COVID-19 hit) and where they stayed. 

With 1,860 respondents, the survey showed that 21.5 percent said they had traveled since March 2020. In contrast, 78.5 percent said they had not taken a vacation or business trip since March 2020. 

Of those that did travel, 31.2 percent stayed in a short-term or vacation rental. 53.3 percent stayed in a hotel, while 9.9 percent

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Tourism website lists open tourist spots in Philippines

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Ghio Ong (The Philippine Star) – October 18, 2020 – 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines — A website listing all the open tourist spots in the Philippines amid the coronavirus pandemic has been launched by the Department of Tourism (DOT).

The website philippines.travel/safeph lists all of the country’s 81 provinces and the tourist spots open in each province.

The following areas are currently accepting tourists nationwide, whatever the community quarantine status: Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in Bataan; Clark Freeport Zone and some destinations in Pampanga; Anilao in Batangas; Tagaytay Highlands and select golf and country clubs in Cavite; and Boracay Island.

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More races postponed, Roglic talks 2020 Tour: Daily News

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Marion Norbert-Riberolle celebrates her under-23 world title at Cyclocross Worlds in 2020. Anthony Leutenegger (@anthonyleutenegger) won the Amateur Category in the 2020 Mark Gunter Photographer of the Year Awards with this shot.

Hello again, CyclingTips readers,

Postponements continue to feature in the cycling headlines as Thursday brought news that organizers have postponed the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana men’s and women’s races, while the Itzulia Women is listed as postponed on the UCI’s Women’s WorldTour calendar.

In other news, Primoz Roglic has offered some insight into a 2020 season that saw him lose the overall lead at the Tour de

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Key West is one of the hottest U.S. travel destinations

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A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and travelers are ready to travel.

And a lot of them apparently are eager to travel to Key West.

Tripadvisor just released its 2021 Travelers’ Choice Awards for Destinations, and Key West is among the most popular destinations for travel in the United States, falling behind New York, Maui, Las Vegas and New Orleans.

Key West’s popularity makes sense. More than half of the respondents to a recent Tripadvisor survey reported they were likely to take an outdoor or nature-focused trip after the pandemic. Key West is the sort of lawless island where

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Tyrrell Hatton: PGA golf star says 2020 is ‘the best of my career so far’

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He began it recovering from wrist surgery and sat 32nd in the world rankings, but by the end of the year he was in the top 10.

“2020 has been a very strange year and difficult for a lot of people,” Hatton told CNN’s Living Golf’s Shane O’Donoghue.

“For me personally, 2020 on the golf course has been basically the best of my career so far. “

After nearly a decade in the professional game — the Englishman made his debut in August 2011 — it was the need for surgery on a long-term injury and a subsequent spell on …