TOURISM MEANS

Passion and exploring the life from all angles. (November, 2020)

sustainable tourism advocate

Italy

CHALLENGES

To travel free & wherever you want is still not possible and also not sure when it will be possible again. I work as a receptionist during the holidays and we are facing many challenges right now. The government frightened the people of travelling especially guests from other countries. Right now we have to put double or tripple the effort to generate new guests to get as many guests as possible to keep our hotel alive. (June, 2020)

Tourism employee

Austria

CONCERNS

When In London it was only a few weeks into this pandemic. It was actually right before it became a pandemic. When we were there we were very cautious when we were in public. Especially when we were trying to leave we were concerned about going to Heathrow because it is one of the busiest airports in the world. We were also concerned about using public transportation because that is how we would get around to all of our destinations. (April, 2020)

Tourist

United States

IDEAS

After the lockdown (May 2020) all restaurant and hotels got the confirmation that the can re-open. Some restaurants/hotels did it really well, with new offers, cool projects, mini events, new decorations.. And the other restaurants/hotels did it like before.

If you want to be good, you have to come up with new ideas, new projects, something unique,...

For some companies, the sales revenue were higher than before the corona crisis - because of new ideas, new projects,... (October, 2020)

Student

Austria

I CAN OFFER

My love and support; I would love to donate money to help and do more but I can barely support myself right now. (April, 2020)

Student

United States

I NEED

State aid. (August, 2020)

Tourism employee

Slovenia

SOLUTIONS

Given that the country is closed and that people are scared, I don’t see many solutions, and I don’t have good practice yet. I went back to the time when I founded the company. I make reservations for hotels for the citizens of Slovenia, which received a tourist voucher from the state. At the moment, this is the only way I pay all the costs of the company. (July, 2020)

Tourism employee

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

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)

Student

Czech Republic