People are afraid to fly these days, and consequently Delft%s tourism business is suffering. But, so far, the TU is not.From Monday to Wednesday this week, the TU’s Aerospace Engineering faculty held a conference on Glare, ‘the new material for aircraft’.
But it wasn’t until Monday that TU organisers knew if all the American delegates would show up. ”Boeing especially doesn’t want their employees to fly to Europe yet, and we expected seven visitors from Boeing. They made an exception for our conference, thankfully, so everybody turned up,” says Henriëtte van Duijn, one of the conference organisers. Besides the Boeing employees, other American aircraft industry executives were in attendance, including two representatives of the US Air Force Academy.
The city of Delft is feeling the effects of people’s reluctance to fly. Several hotel reservations have been cancelled and, normally, Delft hotels are busy in the autumn. But not this year. Americans, second only to the French in terms of numbers of visitors to Delft, are important for Delft tourist industry. Americans tend to spend lots of money here, especially at the Porceleyne Fles factory. (IB)
People are afraid to fly these days, and consequently Delft%s tourism business is suffering. But, so far, the TU is not.
From Monday to Wednesday this week, the TU’s Aerospace Engineering faculty held a conference on Glare, ‘the new material for aircraft’. But it wasn’t until Monday that TU organisers knew if all the American delegates would show up. ”Boeing especially doesn’t want their employees to fly to Europe yet, and we expected seven visitors from Boeing. They made an exception for our conference, thankfully, so everybody turned up,” says Henriëtte van Duijn, one of the conference organisers. Besides the Boeing employees, other American aircraft industry executives were in attendance, including two representatives of the US Air Force Academy.
The city of Delft is feeling the effects of people’s reluctance to fly. Several hotel reservations have been cancelled and, normally, Delft hotels are busy in the autumn. But not this year. Americans, second only to the French in terms of numbers of visitors to Delft, are important for Delft tourist industry. Americans tend to spend lots of money here, especially at the Porceleyne Fles factory. (IB)
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