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Travel overseas and cruises during coronavirus: Australians still booking holidays

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Overseas travel is banned. But travel agents and cruise lines are fielding inquiries and, in some cases, taking bookings from eager travellers. Travel agent Barry Downs said customers were beginning to discuss future holiday plans instead of seeking refunds or postponing travel. Three: unlikely to travel again.”

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Increases in Apartment Occupancy Hits 10-Year High

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The one market to experience a negative occupancy rate was San Francisco with negative 2,730 units. Rhetoric of an urban exodus in 2020 could be proven through NAR’s analysis, but only for some large cities. Read More. . Multifamily. Built for Rent. Market Data + Trends. Multifamily.

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How to keep airports functional during construction

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It starts, of course, with what travelers experience as they pass through an airport with ongoing construction. For travelers, construction shouldn't take a seamless experience off the table. It sounds simple, but the temporary wall strategy can make a remarkable difference from the traveler’s point of view.

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Renters, Wealthy Leading 'Exodus' of Cities

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Already, the most expensive cities such as San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles have experienced year-over-year price drops in rentals. . Leading the trend in ditching cities are renters and the wealthy, those who can easily change residences.

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Northern California's Highway 101 Moves Up and Out of Floodplain

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mile segment of Highway 101 north of San Francisco opened this month, a major step in widening 16 miles of the heavily traveled Marin-Sonoma Narrows. A realigned, 2.5-mile

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A 620mph hyperloop network between Amsterdam and Paris – with journey times of just 90 minutes – could be up and running within the next eight years

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It suggests that a hyperloop could carry 200,000 passengers per hour in each direction and in half the time it usually takes to travel between Amsterdam and Paris by train. Hyperloop is a proposed method of travel that would transport people at airline speeds – roughly 600 to 700mph – between distant locations.

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BBC travel presenter Simon Reeve warns that the lockdown has left animals vulnerable to poachers – even in parks and conservancies

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BBC travel presenter Simon Reeve, who says many rangers and guides at national parks across the globe are being laid off, leaving endangered animals unprotected . With humans stuck inside, pollution levels are plummeting, coyotes are retaking empty streets in San Francisco and goats are strolling nonchalantly through Llandudno in Wales.

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