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Let's go live to dusseldorf and speak to axel hefer, the chief executive of the travel website trivago. good to talk to you again. here we are with a new variant and governments changing their restrictions by the day. in europe, took us through the impact you have seen so far. i mean, it's understandable the governments want to slow down the spread of omicron. so far it has basically led to an increase in cancellations, given there is uncertainty as to whether you can travel or not. but we do expect further deterioration of the situation and for travel activity. in terms of _ and for travel ac...

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Is it the customer? it affects everybody, to be honest. toi is it the customer? it affects - everybody, to be honest. to win over a customer everybody in the chain has actually spent some money, but ultimately the hotel is bearing the cost because they are sitting empty. in terms of the outlook it's so uncertain currently, isn't it, because there is a lot of uncertainty about omicron as a variant and its impact. it is ve , variant and its impact. it is very. very _ variant and its impact. it is very, very uncertain. - variant and its impact. it is very, very uncertain. what| variant and its im...

Let's start with international travel, because with the omicron variant spreading across europe and much of the world at rapid speed it's causing major disruption for the travel industry. many have chosen to change or cancel christmas travel plans as more countries introduce new restrictions. one of the latest is germany, which from sunday banned most travellers from britain, denmark, and france. anyone entering germany from these countries need a negative pcr test and is required to quarantine for m days, regardless of vaccination status. it's notjust an european problem. in the us, dr anthon...