TOURISM MEANS

Life. Bussines. (April, 2020)

Tourism business representative

Slovenia

CHALLENGES

A virtual meeting/webinar is the future trend for the convention/conference business. Event organizers may suffer revenue loss as these days "on-the-spot" meetings are not as popular as they were in the past. (April, 2020)

Tourism or convention office, event organizer

United States

CONCERNS

I am concerned that people will travel less or with fear of any kind of infection. As a consequence, there will be less students jobs, which means less money. (March, 2020)

Student

Slovenia

IDEAS

For me, the COVID-19 pandemic wasn't that bad. I founded my own hockey goalie camp, become a professional coach and learned a lot in the last month. Of course, there are many people who struggle now in their life and have a lot of problems. But in the end, you have to get up and make profit out of every situation in life. (October, 2020)

Student

Austria

I CAN OFFER

Social (online) support! As mentioned previously, providing social interaction through technology and media platforms greatly helps and keeps everyones mind busy while providing social interaction to ease the lockdown induced loneliness. I would also be able to provide the resource of shopping for the elderly in my community, which I have done twice this previous month, in order to allow the elderly to stay home and get safely delivered food and not have to possible expose themselves to the virus. Anything we can do to help everyone struggling to get through this time. (April, 2020)

Student

United States

I NEED

Cheap credit with low or no participation of own money, funding for tourism developement, higher value of 'de minimis' for one company, more help from NTO to promote out destination. (May, 2020)

Tourism business representative

Slovenia

SOLUTIONS

Offering alternative future dates later this year and then next year instead of automatically accepting a cancellation. (May, 2020)

Tourism or convention office, event organizer

United Kingdom

EXPLOITATION

VIPs saying we're all in this together to promote themselves. (April, 2020)

Student

Germany

OTHER / SPOTTED

#Coronavirus – How is the Industry reacting?

This article presents how tourism companies react to the coronavirus. Some companies use technologies to recover from the crisis. Many countries are offering the potential travelers to visit some tourism destinations and attractions via virtual reality. For example Japan, Brasil, Malta, Berlin, Montreal, Israel, Portland, Philadelphia, #greecefromhome, #austrianhomestories etc.

https://www.thinkdigital.travel/opinion/coronavirus-how-is-the-industry-reacting/ (April, 2020)

Student

Czech Republic