The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Omaha (2020); Baltimore (2021, scheduled); Grapevine (2022), NE (2020); MD (2021); TX (2022) · Maryland
- Level
- Organizer
- In force
- No start date could be read from the record.
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Passenger Transportation and Travel Services SEC-21
Operative words
"The industry has been decimated by COVID-19 but so many of our members and industry colleagues are focused on rebuilding" (ABA President and CEO Peter Pantuso, as quoted by Metro Magazine, Ex. SEC-21-GM-004); ABA's own November 2020 statement: the industry's '3,000 small businesses closed their doors and furloughed more than 100,000 employees and left idle 36,000 buses,' 'losing 75 percent of its annual revenue' (Ex. SEC-21-GM-035)
The organizer's notice
ABA Death of an Industry 36000 Buses Idle 75 Percent Revenue Loss
Notes
2020: 2020 Marketplace held in January 2020 before any order. On October 15, 2020 ABA moved the January 2021 Baltimore Marketplace (with Busworld North America 2021) to June 19-21, 2021 (Ex. SEC-21-GM-004). 2021: No in-person Marketplace took place in 2021: ABA's site carried 'Marketplace On Demand' programming in May 2021 (arquivo.pt asset listing) and the January 8-11, 2022 Grapevine Marketplace was described as 'ABA's first major in-person meeting in two years' (Group Travel Leader, February 3, 2022) and a 'successful return to live events' (Metro Magazine, January 25, 2022, Ex. SEC-21-GM-005). Usual dates: January each year; 2021 edition scheduled for January 2021 in Baltimore. Scale: The 2017 Marketplace in Cleveland 'welcomed more than 3,400 tour operators, travel industry suppliers, and exhibitors and generated approximately $115.9 million dollars in booked business' (Metro Magazine, December 14, 2017, as read); the January 2022 Grapevine Marketplace drew about 1,800 attendees (Group Travel Leader, February 3, 2022) and 1,600-plus (Metro Magazine, January 25, 2022, Ex. SEC-21-GM-005). Venue orders 2020: MET-BAL-006, MET-BAL-009, MET-BAL-010, MET-BAL-008. Venue orders 2021: MET-BAL-011, MET-BAL-004, MET-BAL-012, MET-BAL-005, MET-BAL-014, MET-BAL-015. Also cancelled by this notice: Senior centers, group-tour customer base and sales calls, 2020-2021 (class): the senior-center, bank-travel-club and church-group programs that fill motorcoach tours, and the in-person sales calls, travel shows and client meetings by which operators sell them (Statewide; Baltimore; Lexington, MD; KY; AL; NATIONWIDE; usual dates Year-round; fall and spring tour seasons; venue orders 2020: MD-002, MD-004, MET-SDF-044, AL-003, AL-005; venue orders 2021: MET-SDF-035, SEC-21-GM-045).