A decade after revolutionizing the hospitality industry, Airbnb is now set to design houses from 2019, revealed co-founder Joe Gebbia to Fast Company. Called 'Backyard', the project could involve everything from standalone houses to multi-unit complexes making it both a creator and a marketplace for selling parts of your home. Knowing Airbnb's past work, the space design project could experiment with co-living concepts. 

Travel company Goibibo has launched&nbsp;'Hotels for our Heroes' initiative with 900 hotel chains and independent hotels in India to help medical staff helping those in need amid the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;The initiative has been rolled out across 26 states and 4 Union Territories to support the medical fraternity during this unprecedented public health crisis. Medical practitioners will be able to choose from 27,000 accommodation options, available at subsidised rates, in hotels across 200 cities on the Goibibo&nbsp;app.&nbsp;

If you're a fan of anonymous artist Banksy's street art, you now get to explore it virtually.&nbsp;Cactus UK is offering a tour of Bristol with a major focus on the&nbsp;artist's work. The tour&nbsp;is available on a mobile app called 'Banksy&nbsp;Bristol Trail'.&nbsp;

With spring sunshine and flowers in full bloom, all that's missing from UK's famous gardens are customers. Horticultural&nbsp;centres closed before 23 March, when all but essential shops were shut down to contain the spread of the coronavirus.&nbsp;An estimated 200 million British pounds of seasonal plants may have to be scrapped across the industry,&nbsp;during what's meant to be the industry's most profitable time of the year.&nbsp;The value of lost plant sales could rise to 687 million British pounds by the end of June.

More than 3,800 firefighters are battling a forest fire in southwest China's Sichuan Province, as winds stoked the flames on Wednesday evening, China's official media reported.&nbsp;
The fire is threatening a historic Buddhist temple, a museum and a school of the city of Xichang in China's western Sichuan province, official China Central Television reported.
CCTV footage showed firefighters spraying water over the temple and surrounding areas to keep the building from burning.

If you've dreamt of exploring Australia's Great Barrier Reef, this is the right time as the legendary Sir David Attenborough is walking you through the natural wonder, virtually! In an interactive journey called&nbsp;&nbsp;"David Attenborough's Barrier Reef", you get to see how coral grows and what the reef sounds like. Learn about the species that call the reef their home and also study&nbsp;effects of carbon dioxide emissions with Attenborough. Interestingly, the reef makes up approximately 2,300 kilometers of Australia&rsquo;s coastline.&nbsp;

Indian Railways adds another feather in its cap! The&nbsp;Chittaranjan Locomotives Works, manufacturing factory in Asansol in West Bengal, set the world record for the highest production in the year 2019-2020 despite the Covid-19 outbreak. It has&nbsp;produced 431 electrical locomotives in this financial year and bagged the title of the 'most locomotives in a year'. It surpassed its own previous record of 402 locomotives in the year 2018-2019.

Lending a helping hand to stranded tourists in India, the&nbsp;Ministry of Tourism has created an online portal sharing information of services that they can use&nbsp;in the country. The portal strandedinindia.com consists of&nbsp;Covid-19 helpline numbers for foreign tourists along with a support section for tourists in need of further information and to help connect with concerned authorities.&nbsp;

Joining the battle against the novel&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, cab sharing platform Ola has offered 500 of its vehicles to the government in Karnataka to help transport doctors, health-care workers and medicines in the state. Deputy CM of Karnataka confirmed the news in a tweet. The services will be available in Bengaluru, Mysore and&nbsp;Hubli-Dharwad among other regions.&nbsp;

Google Arts &amp; Culture is letting you take a virtual tour of the most famous residence in the United States, the White House. The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States located in Washington D.C.&nbsp;You can get an exclusive tour of the executive office building, a walk through the historical art work in the White House and get a chance to virtually stand in the lawn of the house. You can even get a sneak peak into the Vice President&rsquo;s Ceremonial Office, the Secretary of War suite, and the library.

The United States is home to some of the world's most s&nbsp;most beautiful natural landscapes and now you can experience them right from the comfort of your couch.&nbsp;Google Arts &amp; Culture&nbsp;has partnered with some famous national parks in the U.S. to give people a virtual tour of these natural wonders. From rocky mountain to snowy terrains, there's a lot to explore. Hawaii&rsquo;s Volcanoes National Park,&nbsp;California&rsquo;s Yosemite National Park, Wyoming&rsquo;s Yellowstone National Park, and Montana&rsquo;s Glacier National Park are few on the list.&nbsp;

According to an updated analysis by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global air transport industry may suffer a&nbsp;$252 billion revenue loss due to COVID-19, about 44% below 2019&rsquo;s figure.&nbsp;This is in a scenario where travel restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus last for up to three months followed by a gradual economic recovery later this year. Many countries around the world have imposed tight restrictions on international air travel. The full-year passenger demand is likely to&nbsp;decline by 38% compared to 2019, as per their assessment.&nbsp;

Daily life is slowly returning to normal in China, with restaurants beginning to reopen after being forced to shut for nearly two months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many restaurants opened their doors again over the weekend and public spaces sprung back to life across the nation.&nbsp;While the domestic situation has calmed, China is sparing no effort in shielding itself from the threats of outbreaks in other countries.

The famous Badaling section of the Great Wall of China partly opened on Tuesday, after being closed for almost two months due to the coronavirus pandemic which originated in Wuhan last December.&nbsp;The scenic area will be open between 9 am and 4 pm, and the daily number of visitors will be capped at 19,500.&nbsp; As of 2 pm&nbsp; on Tuesday, a total of 892 tickets had been reserved.&nbsp;Visitors must book tickets on the official website or through WeChat in advance and register with their personal information to get a health code, while their temperatures will be checked upon entry.&nbsp;A one-way circular tour route has been designed to prevent the gathering of crowds.

Houston's Zoo has been shuttered to the public for almost two weeks because of coronavirus concerns, but the staff is making sure shut-in animal lovers can get their furry or feathery fix online.&nbsp;The zoo is streaming animal exhibits on its webcams and introducing an animal of the day&nbsp;every day at 11 am via livestream on its Facebook account.

Rome lay empty on Monday as a government-ordered shutdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus, under which all non-essential movements are banned and shops and parks are closed, continues.&nbsp;Rome's majestic monuments and picturesque streets usually crowded with tourists, are almost deserted.&nbsp;More than 375,000 people worldwide have been infected and over 16,000 have died from the virus, according to a running tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.&nbsp;

The Jama Masjid&nbsp;in New Delh will remain closed for public till March 31 in view of the coronavirus outbreak,&nbsp;the imam of the mosque announced on Monday.&nbsp;The decision has been taken as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of the novel&nbsp;coronavirus as many people who travel abroad also come to offer prayers at the mosque, he said.&nbsp;During this time, the daily chorus in the mosque will remain unaffected but people will not be allowed to offer prayers.

A New Hampshire town is illuminating its festive lights in the spring season as the world grapples with the escalating coronavirus pandemic. holiday lights aim to provide a sense of brightness and cheer amid the all the gloom. The trend has garnered support on social media with people sharing photos with the hashtag #lightsforlife

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To tackle the spread of the new coronavirus, ride sharing platforms Ola and Uber have temporarily suspended the option for 'shared rides' till further notice. The two companies stated in separate statements that the Ola Share category and Uber Pool categories in India will be suspended till further notice. They also urged customers to discourage any non-essential travel and stay safe.

Sydney's famous Bondi Beach was closed on Saturday by the police after crowds exceeded a limit of 500 people amid the outbreak of the coronavirus. The crowd even disobeyed the social distancing guideline of staying 2 meters apart and authorities cited 'irresponsible behavior'. According to New South Wales Health Minister, other beaches would also be subjected to similar strict rules to tackle the spread of Covid-19. The closure of the beach comes as the number of cases of the coronavirus in Australia passed 1000.

As part of its 'Airbnb For Doctors and Nurses' pilot program, Airbnb&nbsp;is offering free places to stay for Italian medical professionals involved in the fight against coronavirus&nbsp;in Italy. These medics will be allowed to access free accommodation&nbsp;by hosts, which Airbnb&nbsp;will cover for 2 months. Airbnb&nbsp;hopes to expand the program to other locations in the coming days.&nbsp;

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