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#TourismFromZero initiative

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The 2020 pandemic and previous years’ overtourism issues showed us both the benefits, the relevance, and the limits of the tourism, hospitality and leisure industries for society. We cannot foresee the future, but we can listen to challenges and start developing solutions. 

So far we have received more than 900 responses in which these questions have been discussed::

  1. How should we IMAGINE tourism now that we have an opportunity to reset the way we do business?
  2. Which CHANGES would you like to see? If any?
  3. What are your CHALLENGES and CONCERNS?
  4. What are your IDEAS and SOLUTIONS to make it through the pandemic AND into a sustainable and innovative future of tourism?

In the name of the global tourism family, many thanks to every single one of you for the inspiring feedback. Your replies are summarized in the sections below.

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CONCERNS

As a single female traveller I am concerned about my safety even more in times like this. I usually like to travel to different places that involve staying in hostels and using local public transportation. I am not very likely to travel to a far off destination this year (and maybe not next year either, depending on the availability of a vaccination). My next "big" trip will definitely involve either a tour operator (additional safety net) or visiting friends abroad who have a local network and can help out in case this would be needed. Hearing news about people in hostels being stopped from going out by the police is very scary and I do not want to have to experience this. I nonetheless would not book an all-inclusive hotel stay either though. (April, 2020)

Tourist

Germany

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Bosnia Herzegovina

Tourist

Singapore

Tourism business representative

Slovakia

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TOURISM MEANS

Crowd place. (April, 2020)

Student

China

CHALLENGES

I had my current job offer that I accepted back in November become revoked. This leads me to the challenge that not many hospitality companies are hiring right now and that leads me without a job after graduating. (April, 2020)

Student

United States

CONCERNS

How long does it take me to close the agency and where to find a new source of income. (August, 2020)

Tourism employee

Slovenia

IDEAS

Selling "advanced travel packages" is what I've been thinking about, it may sounds naive that this could work from my point of view, but trying something different is always better than doing nothing. In many countries, not like the U.S, people don't arrange their travel plan by themselves, they tend to work with professional travel agent in order to save money or at least save time. From my personal experience, in many of the cases, agents only asked customers to pay one time fee that includes flights, tickets and sometime even food and beverage which is sounded like they are selling a packages. Thus, when the coronavirus is strongly affect people's travel plan at this moment, selling them any types of "advanced travel packages" that will be activated after the coronavirus is my idea, I do think the most important thing for tourism business to be survived now is keep the cash flow going as normal. It is okay to lose some revenue or giving bigger discount on those "advanced travel packages" but having more business keep coming, is very important. (April, 2020)

Student

United States

I CAN OFFER

My joy at work in the tourism industry. (June, 2020)

Student

Germany

I NEED

Multi sector collaboration to collect data. (April, 2020)

Researcher, academic

Japan

SOLUTIONS

https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/13-tips-to-face-your-fear-and-enjoy-the-ride.html (November, 2020)

Student

Slovenia

EXPLOITATION

The protests of stay in place orders. (April, 2020)

Student

United States

OTHER / SPOTTED

As tourism has stopped, I believe there is plenty of stakeholders that would agree to take Zoom meetings with students. We could then talk about their challenges, and try to innovate their processes for the future. (April, 2020)

Student

Slovenia

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Some activities within this AIRTH and Tourism 4.0 initiative are part of Tourism 4.0 TRL 3-6 project