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• Travel destination offices forced to wait out the waves of COVID-19

  Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Destination marketing offices, often at the core of profitable tourism endeavors in the U.S., are moving slowly, stunned deer in the headlights against a powerful pandemic. To that end, MMGY Travel Intelligence teamed up with the Destinations International Foundation to create a benchmark series of biweekly surveys of North American destination professionals for a nuts and bolts way of taking the pulse of the travel industry through the COVID-19 crisis.

• Interior designers drawn to top metro areas

  Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  For the second year in a row, during a 12-month period from May 2018 to May 2019, the numbers of employed interior designers shifted dramatically toward the nation's top metro areas. Demand for designers, as indicated by a substantial rise in hiring, seems to have made it possible for some designers to relocate to more desirable positions and/or locations. Even though interior design employment has grown every year since 2015, some states have experienced notable declines in employed designers.

• How local, urban farming could help alleviate international food supply…

  Scott E. Rupp Food & Beverage

  Globalization has meant a lot of things: More opportunities for economic advancement, an easier way for pandemics to spread (as we've seen with COVID-19), and the rise in internationally supported food production and consumption in recent decades. Regarding food stocks, cultivation has become more efficient, and diets have diversified. People are eating food that their parents never experienced nor knew previously existed. But this edible bounty is leading to a situation where the majority of the world's population lives in countries now dependent on — partially — imported food.

• COVID-19 and the cybersecurity risks of online K-12 learning

  Bambi Majumdar Education

  The COVID-19 pandemic meant that schools in the U.S. and all around the world had to suddenly switch to digital learning. As schools, teachers, and students rapidly acclimatized themselves to this new version of school, a new threat emerged: cybersecurity breaches. Two school districts in the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland and Berkeley, suffered recent cybersecurity breaches, and student privacy was severely compromised. Reports of such breaches of student privacy and digital security are surfacing across the country.

• Pandemic sheds light on weak links in inventory strategies

  Gail Short Distribution & Warehousing

  In the weeks after COVID-19 began sweeping across the United States, the pandemic succeeded in revealing chinks in the country’s retail and manufacturing supply chains. Many factories and retailers use an inventory system called the just-in-time (JIT) method to save on costs and, in the case of factories, to support lean manufacturing practices. But in light of the recent disruptions to supply chains due to the coronavirus pandemic, some experts say it is time to review current supply chains and inventory processes like JIT.

• Infographic: Are virtual events here to stay?

  Brian Wallace Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Virtual meetings are now commonplace and working from home is here to stay, but will large scale events like conferences ever come back? This infographic outlines how virtual events may be here to stay, signaling a major change for business professionals.

• CMS continues expanding services in response to COVID-19

  Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied Healthcare

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced several changes pertaining to delivering care to seniors and to "provide flexibility to the healthcare system as America reopens" from the economic shutdown brought on by COVID-19, the agency said in a statement on April 30. The changes are many and include making it easier for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to get tested for COVID-19, the expansion of telehealth services, and the dismissal of rules for how certain groups can be treated and where.

• Travel and hospitality companies prepare for consumers with enhanced cleaning…

  Linchi Kwok Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Are you ready to travel once stay-at-home orders are lifted in your region? A recent survey of over 30,000 Americans suggests that 46% of Americans will travel immediately after orders are lifted; 19% will wait two to six months; 18% have no plans to travel; 52% of those planning to travel prefer domestic trips (possibly road trips); and 53% trust the travel and hospitality industry will follow safety protocols. Even though it is still far too early to claim that the coronavirus pandemic is over, a number of states have already loosened lockdown rules, allowing certain businesses to reopen. Travel and hospitality companies are getting ready to welcome guests.

• 5 things I wish I knew when I graduated from college

  Mark MacDonald Religious Community

  I was interviewed for a college webinar about church communication. After a lively discussion with the integrated marketing communication professor, he made me pause with his final question: "Many college students are listening to you. What do you wish you knew then that you know now?" Here are the five things that came to mind.

• The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on payroll

  Grace Ferguson Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Payroll is a core organizational function that any business with employees must perform. Often, though, it remains in the background, overshadowed by more visible operations, such as human resources and finance. But every now and then, an event comes along to remind us of payroll’s critical existence. Currently, that event is the COVID-19 pandemic. As some states move towards reopening their economies, employers are still reeling from the sudden emergence of COVID-19 and its adverse effects on payroll.

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