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#TourismFromZero initiative

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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::

  1. How should we IMAGINE tourism now that we have an opportunity to reset the way we do business?
  2. Which CHANGES would you like to see? If any?
  3. What are your CHALLENGES and CONCERNS?
  4. What are your IDEAS and SOLUTIONS to make it through the pandemic AND into a sustainable and innovative future of tourism?

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.

Don't forget to share YOUR insights (for the first time or again, with new observations):

  

The 10 quotes below are updated every few minutes and elephant word-clouds are recalculated regularly based on your new survey entries. You have to refresh the page or revisit us every so often to see the changed content.

I NEED

More measures by the state to encourage and support tourism activity. (July, 2020)

Tourism employee

Slovenia

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Bosnia Herzegovina

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Singapore

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Slovakia

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TOURISM MEANS

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)

Student

Slovenia

CHALLENGES

For me as a person who travels a lot, it feels like I’m missing a part of freedom. Also, I am doing a lot of sports and it is not very motivating, if it’s unsure if the event in some other country will take place, and if yes, if I can travel their without going in quarantine or without any travel restrictions. (October, 2020)

Student

Austria

CONCERNS

I personaly concern about a lot of things at the moment, but there is one topic I worry the most about. It's the naivety of the people. Like putting the mask on the wrong way or not holding distance. If the people would think more about others then them self I think we could manage the situation much better and without such big loss in the economy. (October, 2020)

Student

Austria

IDEAS

Selling "advanced travel packages" is what I've been thinking about, it may sounds naive that this could work from my point of view, but trying something different is always better than doing nothing. In many countries, not like the U.S, people don't arrange their travel plan by themselves, they tend to work with professional travel agent in order to save money or at least save time. From my personal experience, in many of the cases, agents only asked customers to pay one time fee that includes flights, tickets and sometime even food and beverage which is sounded like they are selling a packages. Thus, when the coronavirus is strongly affect people's travel plan at this moment, selling them any types of "advanced travel packages" that will be activated after the coronavirus is my idea, I do think the most important thing for tourism business to be survived now is keep the cash flow going as normal. It is okay to lose some revenue or giving bigger discount on those "advanced travel packages" but having more business keep coming, is very important. (April, 2020)

Student

United States

I CAN OFFER

Resources that each of us can contribute is humanity. It is important that even in such difficult times as these, no one forgets about the other. And because I am still quite young and fit, I can try to help others who are not doing so well as much as possible with all the possibilities I have. (December, 2020)

Student

Austria

I NEED

Cheap credit with low or no participation of own money, funding for tourism developement, higher value of 'de minimis' for one company, more help from NTO to promote out destination. (May, 2020)

Tourism business representative

Slovenia

SOLUTIONS

Trying out all sorts of different applications and never stop being curious. (April, 2020)

Student

Germany

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

How tourism recovered from different disasters through history? (April, 2020)

Student

Slovenia

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Some activities within this AIRTH and Tourism 4.0 initiative are part of Tourism 4.0 TRL 3-6 project