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Forbes drops Bermuda trip for entrepreneurs to escape Covid 'gloom'
Source: The Guardian
Forbes drops Bermuda trip for entrepreneurs to escape Covid 'gloom'
Invitation for people on magazine’s ‘30 under 30’ list is dropped hours after Guardian inquiry
Archie Bland
Mon 25 Jan 2021 15.57 GMT
A place on one of Forbes’s “30 under 30” lists has long been a marker of status and potential for a group the magazine has proclaimed as the US and Canada’s “brashest entrepreneurs”.
In a time of global crisis, they were offered an additional reward this week: a month-long trip to a five star hotel and beach club in Bermuda, “one of the most desirable destinations in the world”, to escape from the “monotony and gloom” of the coronavirus pandemic.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes Bermuda in its highest level-4 tier of Covid-19 risk, classed as “very high” risk, and says “travellers should avoid all travel to these destinations”.
But within hours of the Guardian’s inquiry on Monday, a spokesperson for the magazine said it was “not proceeding with this initiative”. They claimed that the trip had been intended to “create a protocol that could allow us to come together and build community in a safe way that also serves as a model for the world”.
The invitation had been posted on a Slack group used by some of those who have been featured on the annual list and shared with the Guardian by two people. Recipients were told that “in a time of global chaos” Forbes had “decided to undertake something unprecedented, something amazing, something magical”.
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Invitation for people on magazine’s ‘30 under 30’ list is dropped hours after Guardian inquiry
Archie Bland
Mon 25 Jan 2021 15.57 GMT
A place on one of Forbes’s “30 under 30” lists has long been a marker of status and potential for a group the magazine has proclaimed as the US and Canada’s “brashest entrepreneurs”.
In a time of global crisis, they were offered an additional reward this week: a month-long trip to a five star hotel and beach club in Bermuda, “one of the most desirable destinations in the world”, to escape from the “monotony and gloom” of the coronavirus pandemic.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes Bermuda in its highest level-4 tier of Covid-19 risk, classed as “very high” risk, and says “travellers should avoid all travel to these destinations”.
But within hours of the Guardian’s inquiry on Monday, a spokesperson for the magazine said it was “not proceeding with this initiative”. They claimed that the trip had been intended to “create a protocol that could allow us to come together and build community in a safe way that also serves as a model for the world”.
The invitation had been posted on a Slack group used by some of those who have been featured on the annual list and shared with the Guardian by two people. Recipients were told that “in a time of global chaos” Forbes had “decided to undertake something unprecedented, something amazing, something magical”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/25/forbes-magazine-invites-30-under-30-bermuda-trip-covid
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