TOURISM MEANS

At its best, tourism is the chance to connect with people and nature and to focus on a life not defined by productivity. (April, 2020)

Inventor, consultant

France

CHALLENGES

Lack of opportunities at the moment to do the sharing and promotion of the destination. Income drop. Strategy reevaluation. (April, 2020)

Tourism employee

Slovenia

CONCERNS

After the crisis, people's attitudes towards attending events may change. What are they looking for in the future in the aspect of virtual meeting? (April, 2020)

Tourism or convention office, event organizer

United States

IDEAS

I would suggest a more sustainable tourism, maybe even limit the amount of leisure flights to one per person and year, promote train and bike travel and stop the subventions and tax releases for airtravel, work with hotels and destinations on their sustainability. (April, 2020)

Student

Germany

I CAN OFFER

As a tourism student, I can currently contribute to the renovation of tourism by helping with various tourism-related projects where I feel I can contribute. (April, 2020)

Student

Slovenia

I NEED

Up to date news in the industry, also some news related to employment/replacement (May, 2020)

Student

United Kingdom

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

The media partly exploit the situation of the pandemic to get attention and generate sales. However, the media is not aware, or perhaps unfortunately they are - even sadder that this hype in the media - can make the population sick. (October, 2020)

Student

Austria

OTHER / SPOTTED

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.

First it states that globally there is already an economic recession due to the fact that more than one-third of the global population is under restrictions. One of the worst-hit sectors is the tourism travel industry, not only by the evidence of the quarantine but also the cancellation of all the international flights. Currency exchange market depends a lot on travelling so it will drop off incredibly.

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.

He gives four possible solutions to it: 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)

Student

Spain