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Google has added new content to its travel search results feature, taking into consideration the vast number of hotel closures across the globe.
In the UAE alone, as of June 2020, 16 percent of the country’s hotels tracked by Cavendish Maxwell had either closed or operated at minimum capacity. On a room basis, 27 percent had closed in Dubai vs eight percent in Abu Dhabi.
In the coming days, Google will show the percentage of open hotels, as well as availability and percentage of flights operating at a city or country.
Data will come from Google Flights and Hotels data from the previous week.
Links to additional resources such as travel advisories and the number of COVID-19 cases in that destination are also provided.
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As part of its broader COVID-19 response, Google has given healthcare providers the option to add virtual care offerings to their search and Maps profiles and made government coronavirus-related announcements more prominent in search. Google is adding a new Maps feature to help those individuals find special accommodations when they're done their daily shifts. This feature will help those workers who want to keep their families safe.
The new feature is only available in the US and UK, but Google plans to roll it out to other countries in the future
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Faced with a drop of more than 95 percent in referral revenue in the last week of the first quarter, Trivago informed investors that it has started to “make changes to our organizational setup,” including “significant” headcount reductions.
Other than chopping jobs, and reducing costs, Trivago didn’t specify what organizational changes it is making.
Trivago notched a small profit, roughly $18.7 million (euro 17.2 million) in 2019, but was already struggling heading into 2020.
In a letter to shareholders last week, Trivago said it reduced its advertising spend “to an absolute minimum” because of the coronavirus-driven drop-off in demand.
As part of its reorganization, Trivago said “we are targeting a substantial reduction in our cost base going forward.”
Like Tripadvisor, which is giving a break on subscription bills to hotel and restaurant partners, Trivago said: “We have accommodated the requests of many advertisers to extend payment dates and to pay outstanding invoices in installments.”
Trivago was among eight German startups that pleaded with Google to give them relief from a portion of their first quarter advertising bills.
“Our travel partners are facing unprecedented challenges and we’re working with partners to help protect their businesses, including helping them surface their cancellation policies in our travel search products and expanding our ‘pay per stay’ pilot earlier this month to all hotel ads partners globally to shift the cancellation risk from our partners to us,”
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