Daily Podcast: Google's Travel Search Bonanza
Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast explores Google's very good quarter and the travel search boom that helped it along, Ghana's success drawing
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Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast explores Google's very good quarter and the travel search boom that helped it along, Ghana's success drawing
But one country outside of Europe, in particular, has especially benefited from this growing popularity. Spurred by the success of the Year of Return, tour operators in Ghana have seen business surge beyond the 2019 initiative by increasingly promoting, instead of just family ties, the cultural bounds travelers in the African diaspora have with an entire region so many people cut off from by slavery.
The emergence of the Omicron variant has complicated tour operators' efforts to resume trips that were shelved at the start of the pandemic.
The large number of travel restrictions enacted in the wake of Omicron killed any chance of a significant boost tour operators — many of which haven’t As destinations worldwide have enacted Covid protocols that often vastly differ from those of their neighbors, tour operators are running more single-country trips to avoid the hassles of dealing with the different requirements they might encounter.