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What does travel look like in a post-pandemic world? Meet Rudy Maxa, the original “Savvy Traveler,” and Emmy Award-Winning travel host and producer. This is the audio-only podcast edition of the eleventh JOURNEYS Webcast—Adventure & Discovery In The Time of Corona, originally Livestreamed on June 22, 2020, from Minneapolis, Minnesota with our special guest Legendary & Emmy Award-winning travel host and producer Rudy Maxa. Has tourism spun out of control with selfie-obsessed Instagramers and pop-culture-driven destination travel? Legendary & Emmy Award-winning travel host and producer Rudy Maxa wrestles and ruminates about possibilities and the future of travel. Rudy Maxa is the original “Savvy Traveler,” an Emmy Award-Winning Television Travel Host & Producer, author, journalist, and global travel expert We Cover So Many Topics In This Webcast. Listen Now! A growing number of European countries opening but for many US flyers are persona non grata | France is sponsoring a bill that foreign travelers would me mandatory quarantine • Greece opened two weeks ago to 29 countries Perhaps the question isn’t when we will be able to travel to Europe, but when should we? Loyalty Programs | United announced it’s using it to back $5 billion loan —burn rate from $40 to $30 million a day Airline Mask Policies | Members of Airlines for America (A4A) have announced that they will strengthen their mandatory mask policies to mitigate against the spread of COVID-19 and help keep passengers and crew safe. process. Over tourism | Will the pandemic work as a correction in the over-touristed locales of the globe? The abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail in Alaska | made famous by the book and film "Into the Wild" — has made its first journey in decades. This time by air. The Journeys Webcast is a weekly live stream event where travelers, entrepreneurs, vintners, chefs, musicians, authors, speakers, and ordinary people living extraordinary lives come together for an hour of storytelling, inspiration, idea-sharing, and connection.