TOURISM MEANS

Enjoying unforgettable time away from home, relax and forget everyday life for a few moments, days or weeks. Spending time in another region where I support the local industry and economy with my expenditures I take there. (October, 2020)

Student

Austria

CHALLENGES

No income (we are not allowed to open the hotels yet), it is difficulf to employ people back not knowing wheather the guests will come after we reopen the hotel, we were planning to have one of the best year, all our group reservations were cancelled. (May, 2020)

Tourism business representative

Slovenia

CONCERNS

How tourism will survive this year and what else this year can bring us. (July, 2020)

Tourism employee

Slovenia

IDEAS

One idea I had was to offer a "babysitting service" for parents who had to stay at home and work. Because that would keep people who are out of work busy and it would relieve the parents for a few hours who are stuck at home with them all day.

The service would include doing homework with the children and going outside as getting infected was less likely outdoors.

Another idea I had (which other cities and countries are doing already) was to offer more home delivery services. I think in Innsbruck we lacked take away/delivery services not only from restaurants but also from bars and pubs. But also companies which normally do not offer delivery services could have adapted quicker, for example: books (Tyrolia/Wagnerische/Thalia) or wool and fabric from small shops in town. Pretty much anything that would have kept you busy and sane during lock down. Which would have also created more jobs during this crisis. (June, 2020)

Student

Austria

I CAN OFFER

Motivation and a great desire to improve tourism. (March, 2020)

Student

Slovenia

I NEED

Family, friends, support, fondness, job. (October, 2020)

Student

Austria

SOLUTIONS

Restrict AirBnb accommodations to be only available in high season months, limit the maximum commisson for OTA like Booking.com and Expedia. (April, 2020)

Tourism or convention office, event organizer

Slovenia

EXPLOITATION

Lots of people lose their jobs do to this crisis. Employees have to get rid of a lot of job places because they need to safe money and the people who are still working for this company get less paid than before. Lots of employees in Austria exploited the "Kurzarbeit" because they got money from the government but the workers in this company still worked the same amount of hours than before, but they got less income. (October, 2020)

Student

Austria

OTHER / SPOTTED

Great to see initiative to re-think and evaluate tourism during the pandemic. Thank you. (April, 2020)

Student

Japan