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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::
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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My skills, my willing to make the difference and my passion towards tourism. I think that nowadays ecotourism should be the key to success. (May, 2020)
In short tourism for me is way of living: love to travel, explore... and currently source of my income - work where I love to show tourist interested in our destination what to see and do in Slovenia. (April, 2020)
Due to limitations resulting from the spread of the coronavirus, we made only two trips this year. We had to postpone other trips to next year. Part of the employees are still at home waiting for work. (August, 2020)
I personaly concern about a lot of things at the moment, but there is one topic I worry the most about. It's the naivety of the people. Like putting the mask on the wrong way or not holding distance. If the people would think more about others then them self I think we could manage the situation much better and without such big loss in the economy. (October, 2020)
Higher prices for highly popular or mass tourism destinations. Mandatory carbon dioxide compensation of each flight ‘seat’. Merge tourism and education/development aid more or even make sure tourism companies invest in the education of local communities, so that these people become more independent and maybe even run businesses themselves. Make them less dependent of tourism. And please, lower prices for train tickets, worldwide TAX for flight tickets and increase flight prices. (April, 2020)
Organization of private tours, where we follow all health&safety recommendations. Hotel reservation, travel recommendations, organization of "self drive" tour. (July, 2020)
In case the idea goes through - some ways to disinfect the apartments after every guest. (April, 2020)
The tourism sector has been hit very hard by the pandemic. The following article might provide some light for the tourism sector, in these dark times: https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/resources/impact-covid-19-travel-hospitality-industry-and-6-startups-can-help/ (June, 2020)
Travel companies not allowing for partial or full refunds. It is not as if people wanted to cancel their travel and we cannot deter people from traveling in the future by souring their present experiences. (March, 2020)
Impact of COVID-19 on Travel: Foreign Travel Industry Needs an Immediate Rescue Plan:
This article is based on India's data but it could be translated to all the other countries in the world affected by coronavirus, because it is hitting the tourism sector the same way everywhere. During the last years tourism was unstoppably growing in India but now this sector will have just to fight for survival, because even if quarantine ends and people go back to their jobs, travelling will probably still be restricted. He is also stating that in many countries the governments already started up plans for saving the tourism sector but India is not one of them, and should start working on that. Article gives four possible solutions: Cancel or postpone the proposed TCS on foreign travel that was introduced in the Finance Bill (2020), One-year GST Relief, Exclusive Fund Allocation for the Tourism Sector, Interest-free Credit Facilities for the Travel Sector.
See the original file here: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/348757 (April, 2020)