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Time
The head of the World Health Organization said Saturday it will not be easy to make next year's Tokyo Olympics a safe global gathering after the pandemic.
Speaking at a joint news conference with the IOC, the WHO's director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for "national unity and global solidarity" to fight the coronavirus outbreak ahead of the Olympics. The Games, postponed this year, should bring athletes from more than 200 countries to Japan.
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The Memorial Tournament via IFEA
The Memorial Tournament organizers offer this document as a method of communicating a comprehensive plan to justify the tournament to be considered
an approved event to host spectators. This document provides an outline that will offer recognition of the unique environment in which golf tournaments are
conducted and the preparedness the Memorial organizers will implement to ensure the attending individuals are protected.
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Coloradoan
Unlike most music festivals this summer, Colorado's Beanstalk Music & Mountains Festival is still happening — live and in (car) stereo from Fort Collins, Colorado's, very own drive-in movie theater.
The festival, which usually takes place along the Colorado River in Eagle County, has officially changed venues to the Holiday Twin Drive-In, which has been tucked against the Fort Collins foothills since 1968.
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news.com.au
The music festival industry has suffered significant losses during the coronavirus pandemic, with all the big name players forced to cancel or delay their events this year.
And now it has been revealed an emerging summer staple — FOMO music festival — has gone out of business and won't be returning for its national circuit at the beginning of next year.
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Broadsheet
Arts and culture are the lifeblood of Melbourne. And while coronavirus has the city’s festivals and venues on pause for now, the City of Melbourne is planning to get that blood pumping again with their 2021 Event Partnership Program.
The program is designed to support free and accessible events scheduled for any date next year – the kinds of memorable, engaging and original experiences that make Melbourne such a thriving cultural hub.
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The National
Coronavirus has left the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society facing insolvency.
The body, which effectively runs the world's largest arts festival, said the cancellation of this year event has left it with a shortfall.
And unlike other festivals across Britain, it isn't being helped by the U.K. Government — despite more than half of all shows coming from England.
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Pollstar
The UK's Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has warned that the current economic shutdown could collapse up two 92% of AIF member festivals.
AIF predicts that at least 90% of the UK's festivals won't take place this year. A recent survey conducted amongst its members showed that half of their workforce could face redundancy from September, without governmental support.
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IQ Magazine
Indoor shows of up to 200 people and outdoor concerts with a capacity of 1,000 will be allowed to take place in Italy from 15 June, the government has declared.
Th easing of Italy's two-month lockdown began earlier this month, with the country preparing to move into phase two today (18 May). This second stage allows people to travel freely within their own region and permits the reopening of religious services, restaurants, bars, pubs, retail stores and hairdressers, all in compliance with social distancing measures.
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Toronto.com
Toronto's calendar of summer events is looking sparse this year as the city fights to contain the spread of COVID-19.
On Friday, the City of Toronto announced the cancellation of permits for festivals with an expected attendance of more than 250 people through July 31, and of those with an expected attendance of 25,000 or more through Aug. 31. It will also not issue any new permits until further notice.
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Global News
Festival vendors were dealt another huge blow during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic when it was announced the 2020 edition of the Canadian National Exhibition was cancelled.
"The CNE is the entire year's income. Losing it is huge ... you can't just go online and replace those sales numbers," said Kimberly Harvey, a previously scheduled vendor at "The Ex" in August.
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Philadelphia Business Journal
One of Philadelphia's largest annual tourism events, Wawa Welcome America, is going virtual this year in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The city's weeklong festival leading up to July 4 typically features free events, museum days, fireworks and concerts. Organizers said Tuesday the schedule of this year's virtual events will be announced in the coming weeks. Major sponsors, such as Wawa and Comcast, are staying on. The festival is scheduled for June 28-July 4.
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Crain's Detroit Business
Detroit's annual fireworks show has been postponed to Aug. 31 and shifted to a televised-only event.
The three-hour televised event will honor front-line workers and heroes of the COVID-19 crisis and be broadcast on WDIV-Channel 4.
Hart Plaza and other public spaces will not be open for viewing during the fireworks, given ongoing health concerns amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young announced Wednesday that all large public events in Baltimore are canceled through Aug. 31, including the Fourth of July fireworks and the annual Artscape festival.
While initially saying the move applied to all events requiring a city permit, Young later clarified the cancellations apply to those larger than 250 people. All events expecting fewer than 250 participants are called off through May 31.
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KING-TV
All major events for Seattle's annual Seafair celebration are getting rescheduled to 2021 due to coronavirus concerns.
The Fourth of July fireworks, Seafair Milk Carton Derby, the Torchlight Parade, and the Seafair Weekend Festival are just some of the big events that got canceled.
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Hunterdon Review
The 38th annual New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning in Association with PNC Bank has been rescheduled to take place the weekend of October 16 to 18 at Solberg Airport due to ongoing concerns surrounding the coronavirus.
Traditionally, the largest summertime hot air balloon and music festival in North America has taken place over the last weekend in July.
"The safety and well-being of our patrons, balloon pilots, concert headliners, partners, vendors, staff and the overall community are our foremost concern," said Festival Executive Producer Howard Freeman.
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Austin Business Journal
More businesses are reopening their doors in the Austin area as commercial restrictions are eased.
But the return of mass events, which support many of these local businesses and the broader Central Texas economy, is more far-fetched as authorities try to contain Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly
The countdown to the next Three Rivers Festival reset to 421 days on May 14. For the first time in 52 years, the popular downtown Fort Wayne event won't happen, the festival's board of directors announced. The loss of festivals like this is creating a hardship for the region's artists and food vendors who count on the events for income.
Three Rivers was scheduled to begin July 10 — less than a week after Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb’s target date of July 4 to completely reopen the state after COVID-19 precautions shut down local businesses and events.
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KAIT-TV
Memphis in May has announced the annual international festival will remain on the downtown riverfront in Tom Lee Park next year!
The Memphis River Parks Partnership told MIM organizers any development work planned for Tom Lee Park would be held off until after the 2021 festival.
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Tri247.com
IRONMAN today announced in conjunction with host city partners and authorities in Hawai`i, United States and Taupō, New Zealand, that due to the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the 2020 editions of the IRONMAN® World Championship and IRONMAN® 70.3® World Championship cannot take place on their originally scheduled dates.
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SportsPro Media
Global sports sponsorship spend in 2020 is set to take a US$17.2 billion hit as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to sports marketing agency Two Circles.
With the health crisis resulting in the mass cancellations or postponements of sports events worldwide, the report shows that total global sports sponsorship rights fees will suffer a 37 per cent year-on-year decrease, dropping from US$46.1 billion in 2019 to US$28.9 billion in 2020.
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Santa Fe Reporter
Even amidst planned expansions to Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Washington, DC, financial troubles for arts corporation Meow Wolf were more dire than the company let on, even before public health orders shut down the Santa Fe attraction.
Meow Wolf leaders held a meeting last month with employees three days after they announced the layoffs of 201 of their colleagues.
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The New York Times via Las Vegas Sun
Until the coronavirus pandemic hit, Mongolian contortionist Uranbileg Angarag wowed spectators nightly at Cirque du Soleil shows on a cruise ship, contorting her body into a ball and balancing on a vertical stick held in her mouth. For the past 50 days, however, the 26-year-old has been stuck in a cramped cabin off the Italian coast, doing a handstand and splits while conducting WhatsApp video calls and wondering when the storied circus will perform again.
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The New York Times
A quandary is lurking at the heart of the efforts to revive the economy.
In recent decades, a growing share of job growth and gross domestic product has come from the business of getting people together — from college sports and music festivals like Coachella to ax-throwing bars and ice cream museums. Yet given the infectious nature of the coronavirus, these very events will be among the very last to return.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
When will live concerts and festivals return?
No one knows for sure.
But the coronavirus pandemic has led to a constantly growing number of spring and summer tours falling through or being rescheduled for fall or next year. Such major festivals as Coachella and Stagecoach, which were both postponed from April to October in Indio, could be pushed back to 2021.
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Deutsche Welle
The pleasant weather in Germany is drawing more and more people out into the streets and public parks in Germany. If it weren't for the appearance of face masks, one might actually forget the global pandemic situation.
But there are many other reminders of these extraordinary times as well. May normally marks the beginning of the music festival season in Germany.
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Forbes
Those of us who have committed our passions and careers to events are facing difficult and unprecedented times. Due to COVID-19, conferences, festivals and trade shows have been canceled. The $325 billion event planning industry is in jeopardy. Thousands of hours and countless experiences have been lost.
There are so many people and industries being leveled by this experience, and the last thing I want to do is compare tragedies.
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WOAI-TV
The Texas Travel Alliance, led by SeaWorld, Fiesta Texas and the San Antonio Zoo, are all asking to reopen as early as this weekend.
According to a release, 60,000 small businesses in the travel and tourism industry have closed their doors because of the coronavirus pandemic. The alliance calls for the governor to reopen their business to help get those Texans back to work and generate 'much-needed tax revenues.
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The Hill
Tennessee announced Friday it would lift capacity restrictions on restaurants and shops as it moves to focus on reopening larger attractions such as amusement parks, water parks and theaters starting next week.
Tennessee's Economic Recovery Group said 89 out of 95 counties in the state could lift capacity restrictions on businesses, adding that the next reopening phase begins May 22 for reopening larger noncontact attractions, according to Nashville, Tennessee, NBC affiliate WSMV.
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USA Today
The 2020 schedule has been released, but little else is known about the upcoming NFL season as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
Should the NFL season begin on time, Joe Buck — Fox Sports' lead play-by-play announcer for football — believes we might be looking at a campaign without fans in the stands. In an interview with SiriusXM's Andy Cohen, Buck said that Fox is exploring a few routes to provide for a more normal viewing experience should these fan-less games come to pass.
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Front Office Sports
The likelihood of playing a shortened 2020 MLB season without fans in attendance is prompting Major League clubs to explore the sale of tarp advertising on empty seats, according to industry sources.
The move would help make up a percentage of the millions of dollars in ticket and in-stadium revenue to be lost this season. MLB owners say they'll lose an average of $640,000 per game in 2020 assuming players earn prorated salaries, USA Today reported. In 2019, 11% of the league's entire revenue was generated by sponsorships.
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Bloomberg
Tim Leiweke, CEO of Oak View Group, an entertainment and sporting event venue business based in Los Angeles, California talks with Andrew Browne, the editorial director of Bloomberg New Economy on the video conversations series, "On the Front Lines." Leiweke says it will take time and cost millions to make sure stadiums and arenas are safe for fans and concert goers but he is confident venues will open again.
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The Wall Street Journal
Sports fans are longing to return to the stands, but health experts say stadiums are one of the highest-risk areas for coronavirus transmission. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist, walks us through how easily the virus could spread among the crowd.
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The New York Times
Fever checkpoints at the entrances to academic buildings. One-way paths across the grassy quad. Face masks required in classrooms and dining halls. And a dormitory turned quarantine facility for any students exposed to the coronavirus.
That was one vision for the fall semester at the University of Kentucky conjured up by a special committee last week — and not the most dystopian scenario.
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IFEA
In this taxing and uncertain time, show organizers are going above-and-beyond to ensure we protect our colleagues, exhibitors, visitors and delegates. We believe when we next meet in organized industry gatherings, our program of enhanced measures will provide all with the assurance and confidence our shows and events have health and safety as our number one priority. The objective of this document is to provide a best-practice guide to industry colleagues who are responsible for organizing and delivering organized industry events and exhibitions of all sizes, in all locations.
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CDC
This guidance is intended for all Americans, whether you own a business, run a school, or want to ensure the cleanliness and safety of your home. Reopening America requires all of us to move forward together by practicing social distancing and other daily habits to reduce our risk of exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Gensler via IFEA
Building owners and users alike are grappling with unprecedented challenges. Based on their work with clients across the globe, Gensler offers space guidelines, proprietary tools, and services for what we all need now, in the near term, and in the long term.
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POLITICO
Moderna Therapeutics' potential coronavirus vaccine showed promise in its first round of human trials, fueling executives' hopes that it could be ready this year.
All eight patients in a Phase One safety trial developed antibodies for the virus after two doses of mRNA-1273, the vaccine that the biotech is developing with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the agency run by infectious-disease expert Tony Fauci.
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The Hill
A leaked Pentagon memo on Tuesday revealed that top Department of Defense (DOD) officials have been planning for the possibility that the military could be dealing with a "globally-persistent" coronavirus pandemic well into 2021.
The memo, obtained by Task & Purpose, also warned of the "real possibility" that a vaccine for COVID-19 won't be available until "at least the summer of 2021."
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VOX
For the next stimulus package, some lawmakers want to go bigger. Much bigger.
While it could be weeks before members of Congress land on the next bipartisan bill to combat the economic fallout of the coronavirus, many have no shortage of ideas about what that could look like. House Democrats, after all, have already passed their $3 trillion opening bid, with a focus on getting more than $900 billion to states and cities.
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INC.
Hundreds of thousands of small businesses that took Paycheck Protection loans finally have a path to getting their loans forgiven, but much delayed guidance released by the federal government is nowhere near final.
On Friday, the U.S. Treasury and Small Business Administration released an 11-page loan forgiveness application with instructions on how to complete it. While the document clarifies a number of administrative queries, such as when, exactly, does the eight-week covered period begin, it fails to address several key issues.
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