Thomas Pallini/Business Insider A surge in COVID-19 cases across the US is encouraging would-be travelers to cancel their holiday flights. Four major US airlines have eliminated change and cancel fees permanently, while others have travel waivers to make it easier to cancel when plans change. Most airlines won’t offer a […]
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BOZEMAN, Mont. — The Madison River rushes down out of the snows and springs atop the Yellowstone plateau, a dark blue, rock-studded, world-class fishing stream. The fishing season is nearly finished, but a season of discontent continues. Throughout the summer and fall, there have been traffic jams on the river, […]
Going back to school this year has been a lesson in patience. Since the surge of COVID cases this fall, many cities, including New York, Detroit and Philadelphia, have suspended or postponed their plans to hold in-person classes. The delays and ever changing schedules have been frustrating to parents and […]
Karen McCullough never wanted a dog. “It would have tied me down, and I had a great, very busy life,” she says. Her career as a keynote speaker at conferences has taken her across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. “My job is to get everybody engaged, excited and ready to […]
Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. For travelers looking to book a flight or hotel room, Booking.com and Expedia.com look a lot alike. Yet the two fared very differently when the coronavirus pandemic shut down travel, thanks to different strategies behind their websites. […]
CLOSE When it comes to surviving the pandemic, sugary sweets appear to be an elixir for some businesses as folks looking for comfort buy candy, cookies and cakes in greater numbers. Which is why sales of candy grew by 3.8% from March through August when compared to the same period in […]
Airline passengers reconsidering their holiday plans can take advantage of new policies offered by most major airlines. MARTIN SYLVEST/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty A surge in COVID-19 cases across the US is encouraging would-be travelers to cancel their holiday flights. Four major US airlines have eliminated change and cancel fees permanently, while others […]
I love you, but I do not want to die because of your good time. Not that I am opposed to your personal enjoyment. I am all for recreation — within reason, of course. But the eschewing of caution, throwing it all to the wind in order to hang out […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Rainbocorn and Cutetito may just sound like gibberish, but they’re actual names of new toys likely to lead the pack in the upcoming online holiday shopping season, one setting up to smash existing records. © Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News FedEx trucks are loaded for deliveries […]
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When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Jeannie Morrison and fiancé Renny Lopez started pondering how to get out of town without catching COVID-19. “We traveled all the time before –– California, New York, Canada, Hawaii,” says Lopez, 71. “Since the pandemic, we’ve been afraid to fly. We canceled our trip to […]
© India Today Group Days in office to reduce 30%, business travel 50% after pandemic, says Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates believes that the ways in which people conduct businesses and business travel will drastically change even in the post COVID world. While interacting with Andrew Ross […]
PHOTO: PAUL ZIMMERMAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / GETTY IMAGES VIA AFP 2020 has been one hell of a year. The pandemic is hard on everyone, especially for those who are personally battling with the virus, but also for the rest of us who have to continue to keep up […]
Many professionals, including academics, are accustomed to flying a lot. Or they were before COVID-19 drastically reduced air travel and disrupted conference plans globally. For now, the mingling of many people in hotel conference rooms, flown in from many places, isn’t an option. Conferences are increasingly being organized online. What […]
Montclair Village is a unique and special place, especially at this time of year, festooned with decor and lit up for the holidays. This year, even more than in years past, the independently owned businesses that make up the village are counting on the community for support. Village merchants are […]
NEW YORK — As SoftBank Group shed assets ranging from Alibaba to T-Mobile this year, the Japanese tech investor created an $80 billion cash pile that CEO and Chairman Masayoshi Son says was built with the “worst-case scenario” of COVID-19 in mind. “I saw the possibility of a lot of economic crisis,” Son said Tuesday as he kicked off […]
The boxes are filled with packages containing painted rocks, most of them intricate works of art, handmade and mailed from people all over the country. Since the beginning of the pandemic, people have been sending them to Penny so that he and his family can place them along the Parr […]
The company filed its long-awaited IPO paperwork Monday, revealing that it turned a profit of $219 million in the third quarter of this year, on $1.34 billion in revenue. By comparison, it made $227 million in profit during the same quarter last year on $1.65 billion in revenue. The third […]
FILE – In this Wednesday, March 4, 2020, file photo, Arkansas coach Eric Musselman reacts on the sidelines against LSU during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Fayetteville, Ark. This season, a host of newcomers will have opportunities for second-year coach Musselman. Michael Woods AP Planning […]
WICHITA — In just a week, thousands of college students in Kansas will board planes and hop into cars, daydreaming of sweet potatoes and turkey legs. Most of those students won’t return to campus for the rest of the semester. To cut the risk of spreading the coronavirus, the majority […]
© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine In an exclusive interview and photoshoot on Broadway with HELLO! magazine, actress Summer Strallen talks of the devastating impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the theatre business, as well as how it affected her personally. MORE EXCLUSIVES: Dick and Angel Strawbridge open up about children’s […]
Although the state’s tourism industry has taken a hit during the pandemic, experts found that many Hoosiers are exploring their home state and getting outdoors. NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Throughout the pandemic, tourism has been hit especially hard.A policy brief from the United Nations this summer, estimated a trillion dollars […]
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Necessity is supposed to be the mother of invention. If that were the case for the high-end restaurant industry, the coronavirus pandemic should have offered ample opportunities for creativity and renewal. Instead, it is turning into a bitter struggle for survival. Many a three-star Michelin meal […]