TOURISM MEANS

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)

Tourism employee

Slovenia

CHALLENGES

Coronavirus is a game changer for the tourism industry and society as a whole, though we do not yet know when this crisis will end. (April, 2020)

Student

Japan

CONCERNS

We will go back to mass or over-tourism. (July, 2020)

Researcher, academic

Cyprus

IDEAS

Covid-19 should be used as a reset for the travel industry and an opportunity to grow new destinations. Over the past 10 years, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Iceland have been drowned in tourists to the point of the visitors having detrimental impacts to many historic or natural sites. A lot of this travel is motivated by viral photos on social media and influencers travelling to these destinations. Unfortunately, many beautiful and culturally rich countries aren't given this kind of attention and are completely ignored by tourists. A few that would fit into this category are Sao Tome & Principe, Guinea-Bissau, East Timor, Tajikistan, Mauritania, Iran, Chad, Djibouti, and the Central African Republic. (April, 2020)

Tourist

United States

I CAN OFFER

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)

Tourism employee

Italy

I NEED

Surveys, how to apply sustainability in a ski resort. (April, 2020)

Local resident

Italy

SOLUTIONS

We are solving this bad season by organizing trips and holidays in Slovenia, Croatia, Greece and Italy. (September, 2020)

Tourism employee

Slovenia

EXPLOITATION

Criminals phishing company details to claim subsidies entitled for small businesses in various states of Germany. (May, 2020)

Researcher, academic

Germany

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