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Short staffing and high demand could spell disaster for your summer travel plans
Get ready for another sold-out summer when it comes to travel. Across the country, there are still labor shortages in many industries. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the travel industry. An additional 75,000 leisure and hospitality jobs were added just in March, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, but the industry will likely need to remain on a hiring binge if it’s to keep up with demand throughout what’s expected to be a busy summer for travel. Air travel is particularly affected by labor shortages in sectors such as air traffic controllers, flight attendants, pilots, ground crew and food service workers within airports.…
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How an Airbnb disaster led to a beautiful friendship
CNN — When a substantial plumbing disaster strikes, most Airbnb friends would pack their baggage and need their revenue back again, while their hosts would glumly compose off their gains and try to fail to remember about it. But for German vacationers Elke Thau-Montgomery and Rudi Thau, and their American hosts Beth Ann Moon and Jennifer Steinberg, a calamitous Airbnb predicament turned into a continent-spanning, five-several years-and-counting friendship. Florida-centered couple Beth and Jennifer outlined the apartment linked to their dwelling on Airbnb for the first time in 2017. Beth and Jennifer are gay, and were being wary about homophobia from their friends (Beth jokes that she hid from the initially…