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kate has led tours for most of a0 years, but her last was at the end of february 2020. i ve had no work at all in common with pretty much all my colleagues, especially the language guides from europe. it has just collapsed. it is certainly a step in the right direction. i doubt whether it will make much difference now for this year. pre pandemic 40% of the goring s guests where american, but city hotels aren t the only businesses dependent on international visitors. why is it necessary to have international travel, notjust do things online? the truth is that in business, as in life, the personal connections that we make around the meetings that we have are absolutely crucial at building goodwill, understanding, empathy, and all of these things are part of what makes businesses successful. there was news for cruising as well. ships will be able to set sail for international trips for the first time since march 2020.
that we have are absolutely crucial at building goodwill, understanding, empathy, and all of these things are part of what makes businesses successful. there was news for cruising, too. ships will be able to set sail for international trips since the first time since march 2020. england and scotland will follow this policy. wales and northern ireland are yet to say whether they ll follow too. labour has said that it s worried that there s a robust system in place to be able to verify vaccine passports. we ve got real concerns because there doesn t seem to be a system in place yet for an international vaccine passport, which the government said that they were going to bring forward. each individual us state does things differently. they don t have an national health service that has a vaccine programme like we do, with the certifications. if the hope was to help tourism and trade, with much of europe already open to international travel, has the government acted too late? other countrie
than just a photo-op. the white house is trying to downplay expectations but at the same time, they re laying the groundwork for greater involvement and more discussions. we will see if the secretary of state is able to achieve anything after the president leaves. let me ask you this. when we were in break, you expressed skepticism about this kind of process. not the sort of thing you want to hear from america s youth. you re not hopeful at all today. i don t know that i m not hopeful but it seems it s all for show right now. not committing to anything. you re building goodwill. news conferences and public proclamations and you go places, see things with the cameras but building on that goodwill is what you draw on with peace negotiations down the road. here we go. president obama and president mahmoud abbas.
that s saved this situation. that s his own selling of what s been transpiring. every north korea expert has said unless you get to the point where you have an itemization of the nuclear resources and plan to let inspectors anded adjudice what s still going on, you don t have anything. building goodwill is an important thing, but the president is trying to play up what he has, which is not what matters at this point. the question of if he can get to what matters really is maybe not dependent only on him. as long as north korea has leverage points and other sponsors that are outside of washington, it s a much more complex, multilayered game. congressman mike pompeo was a hawk when it came to north korea. cia director mike pompeo was very skeptical when it came to north korea. or the secretary of state who has to please his boss, who wants this to go well and wants everybody to believe as he has