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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.

CONCERNS

I'm worried about losing my job - some co-workers have already been fired, some are still at home waiting for work.

The financial crisis that awaits us at the end of the pandemic and which will certainly have a negative impact on international travel. (September, 2020)

Tourism employee

Slovenia

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TOURISM MEANS

To live... to be free and explore the world. (April, 2020)

Student

Germany

CHALLENGES

Personally I’m not really affected by COVID-19 when it comes to traveling. Of course I would love to go somewhere rather than just different places in Austria but that is just not happening this year and that’s fine for me. (December, 2020)

Student

Austria

CONCERNS

I do worry about small businesses and tour guides who are already dormant during the winter months and are waiting for the summer season to accumulate their earnings, just that this summer likely won't come. But at the macro level, tourism should return to its old path. How long it will take is difficult to predict. What I can predict, however, is that, like anything, this crisis will bring some changes. There will now be a lot of room for innovation in current work processes. (April, 2020)

Student

Slovenia

IDEAS

Connecting with other providers. It may be time to get to know the "competition" of the destination providers. I think that having a good knowledge of your destination and of competing providers is crucial. Would it not also make sense to join forces with some of them at this time, to set up a cooperative? (April, 2020)

Student

Slovenia

I CAN OFFER

In regards to learning new skills or getting certifications, here are some websites that may help:

https://www.cvent.com/en/certification/cvent-student-certifications

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/

https://www.facebook.com/business/learn/certification

https://www.thebridalsociety.com/certification-conferences

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming

https://www.strikingly.com/ (make a portfolio for free!) (April, 2020)

Student

United States

I NEED

Advocacy and research to examine the extend to which local operators are good for local economies and data mining to determine the degree of public funding going to non-local businesses and myriad of funding eligibility rules across the circumpolar world. Perhaps our jurisdiction could learn from others. (April, 2020)

Tourism business representative

Canada

SOLUTIONS

Due to the current situation the idea of vegetable crates was born in Salzburg, which are delivered home - contactless:

https://www.fraeuleinflora.at/salzburg/gemuese-abo-kiste-salzburg/

There are other initiatives in Austria, which exist due to corona:

https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000116464066/initiativen-in-der-coronakrise-anker-fuer-den-alltag (October, 2020)

Student

Austria

EXPLOITATION

The media partly exploit the situation of the pandemic to get attention and generate sales. However, the media is not aware, or perhaps unfortunately they are - even sadder that this hype in the media - can make the population sick. (October, 2020)

Student

Austria

OTHER / SPOTTED

I am really curios about how the Covid-19 pandemic will change our world and our society. I think we can learn a lot of things from the crisis and reorient new. But I am also concerned about how the world will change and which developments are going to happen in the future. I hope people think careful and learn from the crisis. (June, 2020)

Student

Austria

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