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COVID impact: SF hotels struggle during holiday season

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) – With Thanksgiving and the holidays approaching, hotels in San Francisco would normally be booking up fast.

“Normally this time of year, valet parking is a hot commodity and we have a huge amount of weekend people coming in,” Mark Beevor said.

However this year, many rooms sit empty and it’s not only affecting the hotel industry but many others around them.

Fewer visitors are traveling to San Francisco because of the pandemic and hotels are struggling to keep their doors open.

General manager of Hotel Zetta, Mark Beevor, says the percent of rooms filled right now is much lower than this time last year.

“Unfortunately, as everyone knows, it’s nowhere close to where we were. We ought to be in the high 80’s low 90’s somewhere around there this time of year. Particularly right now with Thanksgiving coming up, we should be having a lot

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A holiday travel season like no other

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A CRITICAL WEEK: Forget discussing politics at the family dinner table: This Thanksgiving holiday travel period is going to cause a lot of hand-wringing as the country grapples with a raging second wave of Covid cases. As your hosts reported last week, the CDC’s recommendation that Americans stay put for the holiday has forced the struggling travel industry into the position of trying to assure the public that flying is safe while also trying not to openly encourage travel.

Something to look forward to: New guidance from the CDC on Saturday recommends pre- and post-flight testing for international air travel,

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Chillicothe cruises past Lancaster in season opener

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CHILLICOTHE — In the first five minutes and seven seconds of Friday’s season-opener, every single Chillicothe starter had scored.



a man holding a basketball: Chillicothe's Emma Barnes drives past Lancaster's Kali Persinger during the Cavaliers' 54-21 season-opening win over Lancaster Friday night.

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Chillicothe’s Emma Barnes drives past Lancaster’s Kali Persinger during the Cavaliers’ 54-21 season-opening win over Lancaster Friday night.

That’s a hint at how the night went for the Cavaliers.

In Anthony Gordon’s coaching debut, he led Chillicothe to a 54-21 win over Lancaster in a game that was never really close.

“The effort was amazing, and that’s what I told the girls. No matter what, I want to see them playing with the ultimate effort,” Chillicothe coach Anthony Gordon said. “Their unselfishness was really something. I’m super happy with everything tonight.”

On both ends of the floor, the Cavaliers (1-0) had their way with the Gales. Offensively, they shot 50 percent from the floor and took high percentage shots all evening. On the contrary, the team’s

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Health experts guide to safe travels during the holiday season

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Health experts are warning people across the nation to not travel this Thanksgiving.

Still, many will choose to do so.

Gran McBea is one of those who wants to see her family for the holidays. She just stepped off a plane in Lynchburg to visit family, and she did so as safely as possible.

“I don’t think people need to fear traveling,” said McBea. “I think they just need to do what’s right like wear your mask and wash your hands.”

According to a survey by AAA, she’s part of just 12% of Virginia holiday travelers surveyed who planned to fly somewhere for Thanksgiving.

“I just can’t imagine being huddled up in my house alone,” says McBea. 

Lynchburg Regional Airport director Andrew LaGala says the Lynchburg airport is doing everything to mitigate the risks of COVID-19.

They even brought in some extra cleaning power.

“We just recently added the electrostatic

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Here’s How to Volunteer in Las Vegas this Holiday Season

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It’s not an easy holiday season in Las Vegas. As a tourist-based city, we’ve been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, a decline in travel, and a temporary shutdown that left the Strip looking like a ghost town this past spring. Charity efforts are especially important this year, and while social distancing continues to be an important factor in curbing the spread of the virus, there are many ways to help the local community. Share a little of your time or resources as Las Vegas works its way back to being not only a hot destination for visitors, but a home we can all share. Here’s how to help: 

Help conquer homelessness

Homelessness is a problem that affects families and children throughout Las Vegas. HELP of Southern Nevada is seeing its resources stretched to the limit. So take part in

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Consider COVID-19 prevention at family gatherings this holiday season

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If you can’t visit family due to the COVID-19 pandemic, host a virtual Thanksgiving dinner instead.

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Seriously consider how to celebrate this year to keep your family safe from COVID-19.

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  • Lynn Norment is a Memphis journalist who previously was an editor and senior writer for Ebony magazine. She can be reached at [email protected]

Thanksgiving is just days away and Christmas is coming soon.

As with past holidays, we have big decisions to make.

Where will we eat? Who will we share the holidays with? Will we travel or stay home? What will we cook?

This year, the answers to those first three questions are critical. If you don’t get it just right, this holiday may be your last.

That may be alarming, even grim to suggest, but 2020 is not a normal year and this will not be a normal holiday season. In a fierce

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Celebrity Cruises Introduces Updated 2021-22 Winter Season Lineup

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Celebrity Cruises has introduced an updated 2021-22 winter lineup of voyages for the Caribbean, Europe and South America. The new offerings were based on market research and feedback from guests and travel partners.

Highlights include an expanded Caribbean presence with new seven-night and overnight itineraries; new Spain and Portugal itineraries in Europe; and a new homeport and new shorter itineraries in South America. 

The Caribbean

Eight of Celebrity’s ships will sail the Caribbean including the new Edge–class ships—Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Apex, the line’s newest ship that was delivered in 2020. Between November 2021 and April 2022, these ships will offer short escapes and seven-night cruises. Celebrity Edge will offer a full winter season of seven-night itineraries to both the eastern and western Caribbean. 

Celebrity Silhouette, which recently received a multimillion-dollar upgrade as part of the line’s Celebrity Revolution update program, will sail new

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StoryBooked Season 3: Creative Travel Stories

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StoryBooked is a Marriott Bonvoy Traveler magazine documentary series following people from different walks of life on their journeys around the world. Travel expands the mind, and a reset of context can give someone perspective on the world and their home and, ultimately, how they fit into the larger universe.

This context is something sorely needed in a time of contracting bubbles of experience and growing myopic nationalism. In this 3rd edition of Storybooked, we are presented with three short films that explore different travel experiences embarking from the US to seek out new ideas and different ways of life around the world.

In Holy Dog, Cowboy, rodeo star, and actor Brady Jandreau travels to Argentina to spend time with the Gauchos, the South American cowboys, whose culture was never as focused on the lone rider as were men in the American West. Gauchos are a brotherhood, a

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Lessons learned as unusual holiday season approaches

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Our Scotty trailer, and spouse Susan, at Wright’s Beach just north of Bodega Bay. (Photo: Courtesy of Tim Viall)

Our world changed almost nine months ago, as the COVID-19 pandemic reality settled on the United States and the world. Since, we’ve had months of mostly sheltering at home and plenty of time to address our latent wanderlust. With rising cases in 49 of 50 states in the last week — and the holidays and flu season coming upon us — we have even more reason to worry.

If you are a local, regional, U.S. or world traveler, you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you might’ve done in these past nine months, and what you may do if and when the world reaches a point of something near normalcy. Sadly, that may take a year, or even longer. Despite the promise of several vaccines coming online in the

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SeaDream Cruise Line Cancels 2020 Season After Covid-19 Outbreak On First Caribbean Sailing

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Norway-based cruise line SeaDream Yacht Club will cancel its remaining cruises through the end of 2020 in the wake of a Covid-19 outbreak onboard its first Caribbean sailing, the company announced Tuesday, becoming the latest cruise operator whose plans to resume sailing have been derailed by the coronavirus and showing how Covid-19 transmission continues to be a problem on cruise ships, even with safety measures in place.

Key Facts

SeaDream resumed its Caribbean cruises in November after successfully sailing out of Norway over the summer, with enhanced safety measures that included requiring guests to have two negative Covid-19 PCR tests before embarking.

On the cruise line’s first Caribbean cruise—which was also the first cruise to resume in

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