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Which was the best Grand Tour of the 2020 season?

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This year has been a tough one thanks to the global pandemic, but we were lucky enough to get all three of the Grand Tours after doubts they would go ahead at all in 2020.

This year saw three of the closest Grand Tours on record with the racing going right down to the wire in all of the three week long races around France, Italy and Spain.

Of course, Coronavirus did mean that they were not in their usual spots on the calendar with the Tour being the first of the three to happen in August/September, but that didn’t

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South Dakota braces for ‘almost non-existent’ 2020 tourism season due to COVID-19 | Local News

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The COVID-19 pandemic has almost completely shut down tourism in South Dakota, one of the state’s largest industries.

The loss of visitors now and potentially into the summer tourism season threatens to cut off a vital economic lifeline for businesses and their employees and eliminate a major source of sales tax revenues that fund operations of cities and state government.

Gov. Kristi Noem has said the pandemic and efforts to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, such as social distancing and foreign travel restrictions, would likely continue through May, when infections are expected to peak in South Dakota. The

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When is the next episode of The Grand Tour season 4 on Amazon Prime Video?

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The Grand Tour season 4 – The Grand Tour Presents, in other words – started in late 2019 with an episode called, err, ‘Seamen’. That episode hosted Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond as they travelled Cambodia and Vietnam by boat, an exotic romp which amounted to a fun departure from the trio’s other journeys.

Since then, fans have been twiddling their thumbs in wait for the next episode of The Grand Tour, which we know is on its way on an unspecified date this year. While it hasn’t been included in the list of new shows coming to

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European vacation? Not in 2020 as pandemic turns summer tourism into lean season

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BRUGES, Belgium — Bruges mayor Dirk De fauw first realized something was desperately wrong with European tourism when on a brisk March morning he crossed the Burg square in front of the Gothic city hall and there was nothing but silence.

“There are always people. Always,” De fauw said. That morning?

“Nothing. Nobody is on that large square” at the heart of one of Europe’s most picturesque cities, he said.

Six months later, as Europe’s meanest tourist summer season in history is starting to draw to a close, COVID-19 is yet to loosen its suffocating grip on the continent.

If

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PGA TOUR announces full schedule for 2020-21 season

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – The PGA TOUR today announced the complete schedule for the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season, featuring 50 official FedExCup tournaments – including 14 tournaments that were postponed or canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – culminating with the crowning of the FedExCup champion Labor Day weekend in 2021.

The schedule, which reflects a net increase of one tournament over the original 2019-20 schedule, features the most tournaments in a season since 1975 (51). Three events postponed in 2020 – U.S. Open, Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship and Masters Tournament – will be played

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