Posts tagged tourism
CNN Opinion: Odesa used to be known for two things -- the port and raucous hedonism
CNN Opinion: Odesa used to be known for two things -- the port and raucous hedonism

Nothing prepared me for what I have witnessed in Odesa. Eerily quiet streets, closed roads, tank traps and military checkpoints, deserted beaches, near-empty restaurants and bars. Last year, more than 3 million tourists visited the city. This year you're more likely to find war correspondents, aid workers and diplomats in its seaside hotels.

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Michael BociurkiwCnn, Cnn Opinion, michael bociurkiw, Vladislav Davidzon, atlantic council, Lika Bezchastnova, turkey, travel, tourism, black sea, Dizyngoff Restaurant, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, grain, food, UN, united nations, António Guterres, Vladimir Putin, Zelensky, odesa, ukraine war, ukrainian, russia, russia warComment
CNN Opinion: Omicron and the Olympics could be on a collision course with China's zero-Covid strategy
CNN Opinion: Omicron and the Olympics could be on a collision course with China's zero-Covid strategy

Can Chinese officials -- who initially kept the 2003 SARS outbreak under wraps for months and have not been fully transparent about the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan -- be trusted to provide realistic case figures during the February 2022 Winter Olympics?

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Michael BociurkiwChina, Olympics, Beijing 2022, Xi Jinping, tourism, asia, sports, Michael Bociurkiw, Syra Madad, diplomacy, covid, covid-19, coronavirus, pandemic, XianComment