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The Amazing Race 33, Episode 2:
London, England (U.K.) - Glascow, Scotland (U.K.)
This week’s episode of The Amazing Race 33 was filmed at the end of February 2020, just before the production was suspended and the cast and crew were sent home to wait out the Covid-19 pandemic for a year and a half before resuming.
With that in mind, I wouldn’t have been surprised if this episode had overtones of nostalgia for “the ghost of travel past”. But instead, it inadvertently highlighted an aspect of travel that the TV producers and cast members couldn’t have known would grow significantly during the pandemic, and that we can expect to play a greater role in future travel in both Europe and the USA: overnight long-distance trains....
More:
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002638.html
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The Amazing Race 33, Episode 3:
St. Gallen (Switzerland) - Schwägalp (Switzerland) - Säntis (Switzerland) - Urnäsch (Switzerland)- Altstätten (Switzerland)
One of the most obvious changes when filming of The Amazing Race 33 resumed after a 19-month COVID-19 interruption is that the cast (and the portion of the TV production crew travelling with them) were transported back to Europe to resume the race on a Boeing 757 chartered (and repainted) just for the reality-TV show, rather than on scheduled airline flights.
The day before viewers of The Amazing Race got their first look at the show’s Boeing 757 in its new paint job, another newly-repainted Boeing 757 was rolled out for reporters (I was invited, but couldn’t make it to San Bernardino) by Northern Pacific Airways, a nascent Anchorage-based airline that has bought six mothballed off-lease 757s formerly operated by American Airlines and plans to acquire more as the sole type of plane in its initial fleet.
What is “Northern Pacific Airways”, or what will it be? Why would a new intercontinental airline base itself in Anchorage, of all places, or base its business plan on a discontinued model of narrow-bodied plane? Why would “The Amazing Race” choose to charter a plane of that same type? And what, if anything, does this have to do with the changes in travel and the travel industry wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic?...
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https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002639.html
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The Amazing Race 33, Episode 4
Altstätten (Switzerland) - Ticino (Switzerland) - Lugano (Switzerland)
The Gotthard Tunnel(s) and the pandemic and post-pandemic future of cruises, cruise ships, and ocean travel:
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002641.html
The Practical Nomad:
The Amazing Race 33, Episode 5:
Lugano (Switzerland) - Milan (Italy) - Bastia, Corsica (France) - Altiani, Corsica (France) - Corte, Corsica (France)
If you are travelling around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, what places will you choose to visit? What health measures and related red tape will travel require? What will travel across international borders be like?
We got our first look at how the producers of The Amazing Race addressed these questions in this week’s episode, filmed in September 2021 after the planned route of the race around the world had been revised to make it possible to resume the race, on a much-modified route, despite the continued pandemic and continued restrictions on international (and in some cases domestic) travel....
More:
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002642.html
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The Amazing Race 33, Episode 6:
Corte, Corsica (France) - Zonza, Corsica (France) - Bonifacio, Corsica (France)
I talked last week about the complications of getting to and from Corsica during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This week, with The Amazing Race 33 still exploring this island in the Western Mediterranean, we got to see more of what you might do once you get to Corsica — or at least what the Tourism Agency of Corsica, which co-sponsored this episode of the reality-TV show, thought would attract the most (and highest-spending) visitors....
More on Corsica and the patterns of pandemic travel:
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002643.html
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