The travel bubble solutions are aimed at providing end-to-end protection for resorts, tourism boards, airlines, airports, cruise ships, and ports
Loop Insights Inc () (), a provider of contact tracing and artificial intelligence to drive automated marketing, and Empower Clinics Inc () (OTCQB:EPWCF) (FRA:8EC), an integrated healthcare company, revealed on Wednesday that they had signed a pact with top aviation consultant firm SimpliFlying Inc, to help resorts, tourism boards, airlines, airports, cruise ships, and ports make travel safer in the pandemic era.
As a result of the Memorandum of Understanding, the Vancouver-based tech company said discussions have “significantly advanced” to provide COVID-19 testing support for travel bubbles to national tourism boards, which include Dominican Tourism, Cayman Islands Tourism, Bahamas Tourism, Jamaican Tourism, and the Turks and Caicos Tourism boards.
In addition, the company identified near-term travel bubble opportunities with well-known resorts like Iberostar, Bahia Principe, and Hyatt Resorts.
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Empower will provide support for travel bubbles through its laboratory and RT-PCR testing capabilities. It already delivers diverse testing solutions capable of processing thousands of tests per day through its lab in Dallas.
In the meantime, Loop has proven contact tracing technology, while SimpliFlying connects the final piece to international airline carriers, airports, cruise lines, and ports that require solutions, procedures, and protocols.
In a statement, Empower CEO Steven McAuley said: “The prospect of vaccines becoming available will not diminish the need for comprehensive testing solutions, contact tracing and strategic operational changes to so many industry and society processes and protocols.”
“Loop Insights, SimpliFlying, and Empower’s testing products and lab capabilities are exactly what is needed to get our economy working again. Loop Insights’ contact tracing solution is proven, effective and ties together data and workflow.”
He added that SimpliFlying with its connections to airlines, airports, and tourism boards provides the strategic design of how the solutions must work together, ensuring “precise new workflows are implemented correctly, balancing health and safety with the most basic functional needs of travellers and operators.”
On October 19, Loop and Empower created the first travel bubble, combining each company’s respective expertise in venue tracing and testing.
“This partnership is a very important and powerful next step to accelerate Loop’s potential growth. With the company’s recent launch of its first live venue events, with the whole world watching, including world-renowned venues and hospitality companies, Loop hit it out of the park and provided the world with the empirical data necessary to demonstrate our bubble solution is world-class,” said Loop Insights CEO Rob Anson.
“By adding the direct integration with Empower’s diverse testing capabilities and SimpliFlying’s network of large-scale customer projects, we have now commenced significant discussions surrounding travel bubble opportunities with some of North America’s largest airlines, resort operators, venues, and hospitality groups globally. We anticipate this new revenue stream may be significant for the company,” he added.
Loop has already successfully created venue bubbles for two separate live tournaments hosting top NCAA Division 1 basketball teams in Florida and Las Vegas.
Meanwhile, SimpliFlying founder CEO Shashank Nigam noted that the travel industry needs “a consistent testing standard that is accurate, affordable and easy to self-administer,” with reliable contact tracing.
“The SimpliTested solution disrupts and drastically improves COVID testing for travel in partnership with Empower Clinics and Loop Insights,” added Nigam.
“Testing can be comfortable and contact tracing built-in to ensure the risk of community exposure is severely restricted. This instantly makes it more appealing to the average traveler, airlines, resorts, and the local tourism authorities.”
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