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Travel Tips & Trends in a Post-Covid U.S.

Squawk Pod

CNBC

News, Investing, Business, Business News

4494 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel discusses the travel trends for Americans as vaccinations ramp up across the country. Airports are close to being busier than they’ve been in over a year, and Fogel says the communities with the best vaccination rollouts are the ones who stand to benefit the most from travelers. The Biden administration is attempting to mitigate global vaccination inequality by supporting waiving intellectual property rights for Covid vaccines. Plus, dogecoin’s ascent has Wall Street fascinated, and Broadway is making its way back for the masses.

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0:00.0

This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. M. B.C. producer Cameron Costa. Today in our podcast, Traveling Take Off.

0:10.0

Americans booking traveling trends from the parent of Priceline and booking.com.

0:24.0

You look at the correlation between where the vaccines are being rolled out past and

0:29.0

that's certainly where travel is doing best.

0:31.0

Plus, the lights are coming back on Broadway finally vaccine patents and

0:36.4

intellectual property and another day another doge coin. I don't think you can

0:41.6

just say it really does have a market cap bigger than a lot of the major

0:45.6

corporations in this country. It's Thursday, May 6, 2021.

0:50.9

Squack-P Pod begins right now.

0:54.0

Good morning everybody.

0:55.0

Welcome to Squawk Box here on C.

0:57.0

I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe Hernan and Andrew Ross Sorkin.

1:01.0

Guys, another day, another doge coin, we can't help but mention this.

1:05.0

Pulling back ever so slightly today.

1:07.0

If you put $1,000 in Dogecoin on January 1st of this year, right now on May 6 6 it would be worth $120,000. Yeah, that's nice.

1:18.0

I was thinking about it in light of what we used to say about market caps for stocks when they look high and we'd say,

1:24.9

you know, on any given day, when a certain number of shares change hands and that if you multiply

1:31.4

the all the outstanding shares by that price you get to that market cap,

1:35.6

but if everybody decided to sell, I just don't think it's really there.

1:40.2

And that's kind of what I think about doge point. It's not that many, that's at least

1:45.3

my explanation for how it can be $80 billion and maybe really not $80 billion.

1:50.3

That's where it is on any given day. That's the

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