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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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Holidays should be repositioned as a big deal, something meaningful and highly valued and also carefully planned with consideration for environmental ressources and human concerns. We would think more about what we really want for our money. Most people buy far too many things they don’t need, including myself! (May, 2020)
As I am tourism researcher and consultant tourism for me is a serious human activity with significant economic, social and environmental impacts (positive and negative) and an agent of change if managed correctly. (May, 2020)
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)
With the current situation, concerns certainly come. I am most concerned about how the tourism industry will recover from the current situation, as COVID-19 has hit the tourism sector the hardest. As a tourism student, I am worried about getting a job during and after my studies. I am also concerned that tourism companies will not allow students to gain corporate experience. At the same time, I am concerned about the direction in which tourism will develop. Whether we will be able to decrease the negative effects of tourism after the epidemic and also if we can develop tourism into a responsible industry. (April, 2020)
My ideas are for local restaurants to make "survival kits" of whatever their specialty is. If it's a pizza shop then "make your own pizza kits". If it's a bakery then you could have "make your own cookies kit". These are little ways to make money and give people something fun to do this this scary, unpredictable time. (April, 2020)
With my studies, I can help to improvise plans and help with getting the wheels rolling again after this all stops. Hopefully someone will hire me so I can help. (April, 2020)
Open borders for travel. Accurate and up-to-date information on new epicenters of infections. (August, 2020)
In January I co-founded www.tourismdeclares.com, which is working to develop a carbon positive tourism framework - we have been delivberately quiet for these last few weeks, but will be working together to develop sustainable recovery plans.
my 2018 book - 'Transforming Travel - Realising the Potential of Sustainable Tourism' - is available for free download for the next three months. Just click here and download: https://lnkd.in/dvF9Jn5 (April, 2020)
The protests of stay in place orders. (April, 2020)
12 World-Class Museums You Can Visit Online
This article is not very related to the disease Coronavirus, but this technology can be used in those days too. On the website of those 12 museums and galleries is directly written, that they are closed until further notice, but they offer the visitors online exhibitions and virtual tours.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75809/12-world-class-museums-you-can-visit-online (April, 2020)