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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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A lack of communication despite beeing able to spend even more hours than before communicating (May, 2020)
Freedom, openness, tolerance, globalization, (May, 2020)
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)
That nobody learns anything from this situation and no improvements are made in any economic area. (April, 2020)
My main idea to combat my concerns would be to look for alternative jobs in the hospitality industry. Maybe I can find a way to incorporate a virtual aspect to the hospitality industry that has not been seen before. If I can find something like this I think I will have a leg up on my competition when companies do start hiring again. (April, 2020)
Insights & experience on Asian countries (May, 2020)
I may want to have any resources shows how exactly the tourism industry will be recovered from previous cases such as the SARS or H1N1, and any resources that showing the prediction of how long the tourism industry should be recovered. Then take a look on its differnece. (April, 2020)
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/13-tips-to-face-your-fear-and-enjoy-the-ride.html (November, 2020)
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)
We need to raise more awareness about the 'Anthropocene' and the need to move to a form of ecological tourism. (July, 2020)