This past Friday, I launched a new weekly livestream Q&A series we’re calling it “The Long View With Rafat.” The livestreams are informal, insightful conversations with travel industry insiders — and outsiders — on larger perspectives on the crisis in the global travel industry, and different ways of looking at opportunities in these times.


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Police checkpoints are being set up along the Louisiana border in a move to further cut off travel from a neighboring state that has been among the hardest hit by the new coronavirus. The checkpoints are along all major arteries into Texas, according to an advisory Sunday from the Louisiana state police.


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The Acropolis is one of Greece's most popular tourist attractions. More than 32 million foreign tourists visited Greece last year. Yorgos Karahalis/AP hide caption The coronavirus pandemic has all but shuttered global tourism. As quarantines and social distancing continue in countries around the world for the foreseeable future, airlines are warning of bankruptcy, hotels are…


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CLEVELAND, Ohio — We cannot travel now, or at least we should not. But that doesn’t mean we can’t dream of travel later, after the coronavirus pandemic starts to fade. How much later? That’s not entirely clear, but hopefully by this summer, if not sooner, we’ll feel safe enough to venture out again.


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CINCINNATI, Ohio — My sister’s flight landed in Fort Myers at noon, and by 12:30 p.m., she was behind the wheel of my mom’s car, headed back to Ohio. This was the not the trip to Florida she had planned. Then again, what about the past few weeks was anything like what any of us…


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