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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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COVID-19 is an opportunity to reflect on our value system, and society. What is the most important to us? what are the values and things that we treasure? (June, 2020)
Tourism for me means travelling to foreign or well-know places, where I can relax and unwind to forget the everyday life. (October, 2020)
All is limited, but possible. (November, 2020)
I have two points: one is that because of the drecreasing economic, it will be very difficult to find a job after I finish university next year. The other one is that we want to rebuild our economic as fast as possible and substainability will be forgotten. Anf of course the health of my family. (October, 2020)
To have other types of travel... say, using VR. (May, 2020)
With my studies, I can help to improvise plans and help with getting the wheels rolling again after this all stops. Hopefully someone will hire me so I can help. (April, 2020)
Multi sector collaboration to collect data. (April, 2020)
Trying out all sorts of different applications and never stop being curious. (April, 2020)
Tourist vouchers should also be redeemable in travel agencies, restaurants, museums and national parks. Now some providers are earning a lot, while others are in red numbers.. (August, 2020)
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)