TOURISM MEANS

Evasion from daily routine. (April, 2020)

Tourist

Italy

CHALLENGES

Such as Japanese government, we need to avoid the following “Three Cs”; (https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/content/000061935.pdf)

C1: Confined spaces (with poor ventilation)

C2: Crowded places (with many people nearby)

C3: Close contact (with people)

I thought the challenge/ essential impact during/ after COVID to tourism/ service industry is the avoidance of “Three Cs” in contact points between service provider and user. That affects facility use restrictions for the former and expectation alteration by going-out restriction throughout my three perspectives in T0. (June, 2020)

Researcher, academic

Japan

CONCERNS

As a single female traveller I am concerned about my safety even more in times like this. I usually like to travel to different places that involve staying in hostels and using local public transportation. I am not very likely to travel to a far off destination this year (and maybe not next year either, depending on the availability of a vaccination). My next "big" trip will definitely involve either a tour operator (additional safety net) or visiting friends abroad who have a local network and can help out in case this would be needed. Hearing news about people in hostels being stopped from going out by the police is very scary and I do not want to have to experience this. I nonetheless would not book an all-inclusive hotel stay either though. (April, 2020)

Tourist

Germany

IDEAS

I believe tourist destinations should do their best to create virtual (hopefully paid) experiences of what their destination is all about, filmed in both VR and normal video. This could allow people at home to get a taste of actually visiting the tourist destination such as Disneyland, Cozumel, or Yosemite. Providing a tour would also hopefully incentivize people to visit the destination once this all blows over. (April, 2020)

Student

United States

I CAN OFFER

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

Student

Slovenia

I NEED

Trainings concerning how to successfully hold a webinar and keep connections after the online events. (April, 2020)

Tourism or convention office, event organizer

United States

SOLUTIONS

The best solution in my opinion is, that we have to digitize the workflow and learn to handle the e-progress. (December, 2020)

Student

Austria

EXPLOITATION

Not do much an exploitation as such, but discounting I see amongst hotels in Japan will not save the industry as it causes the Prisoner's Dilemma. Everyone could suffer as a result. (April, 2020)

Student

Japan

OTHER / SPOTTED

I think that the fact tourism is highly affected is not that big of the problem. Yes it’s true that people won’t travel during the epidemic, but when everything is over, people will travel again, they won’t just stop. Maybe this is a great chance for everybody to see how much we all can do to help restore Earth, not just in tourism, but in the whole industry sector. (March, 2020)

Student

Slovenia