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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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Tourism means the oportunity to travel and experience different environments, be it social or nature or business, tourism offers a wide range of oportunities to people, also means a concern about impacts that this wide spectrum of activities has. (April, 2020)
Passion and exploring the life from all angles. (November, 2020)
Predicting how things will change (May, 2020)
Although Covid-19 is likely the biggest global crisis since the second world war, it is still dwarfed in the long term by climate change. Yet the two problems have suggestive similarities. Both will require unusual levels of global cooperation. Both demand changes in behaviour today in the name of reducing suffering tomorrow. (April, 2020)
I would like to share idea that I've talked about with my roommate. She is from Bosnia and Herzegovina, I am from Serbia, but students in Slovenia. Having looked at the Slovenian mentality, having studied a lot of things at faculty... We are aware that after all this, the situation in our homelands will be very bad, like it will be in the whole world. Thanks to this situation we realized that we had been wrong for years about our countries...
She came up with the idea that after the situation with the corona virus, "when all this is yesterday", we try to put our passports aside (cancel travel reservations around world) and develop national tourism. Let's do our best to visit every part of our country! In this way, we would also act on other sectors. Let's not let our favorite waiters, our favorite receptionists from hotels where we had our best memories, be technologically redundant and out of work! This year our countries need us the most! (April, 2020)
I am availible if people want to talk - wheter they have troubles accepting these new situation. (March, 2020)
We do not need special resources, only normal conditions that will allow travel. (August, 2020)
In January I co-founded www.tourismdeclares.com, which is working to develop a carbon positive tourism framework - we have been delivberately quiet for these last few weeks, but will be working together to develop sustainable recovery plans.
my 2018 book - 'Transforming Travel - Realising the Potential of Sustainable Tourism' - is available for free download for the next three months. Just click here and download: https://lnkd.in/dvF9Jn5 (April, 2020)
Some companies, especially in the medical and hygiene sector, have certainly been able to use the pandemic to their advantage. (October, 2020)
Great to see initiative to re-think and evaluate tourism during the pandemic. Thank you. (April, 2020)