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V. Vizcaíno 6-May-20
With international travel bans affecting over 90% of the world population and wide-spread restrictions on public gatherings and community mobility, tourism largely ceased in March 2020.
Impacts on air travel, cruises, and accommodations have been devastating
As the number of COVID-19 cases exploded and spread globally, travel restrictions spread out from the Wuhan region epicenter (local lockdown beginning 23 January) to most countries by the end of March.
LIFE
The COVID-19 pandemic should lead to a critical consideration life in the global
An environmentally friendly model
With most hotels being closed or experiencing vastly lower tourism numbers, 2020 industry revenue forecasts point to a significant decline a 50 %
PROJECTED IMPACTS
The COVID-19 crisis should thus be seen as an opportunity
An opportunity for improvement
LAST YEAR THE TRAVEL & TOURISM
1. With the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an urgent need not to return to business-as-usual when the crisis over, rather than an opportunity to reconsider a transformation of the global tourism system more aligned to the SDGs.(Gestion Systems)
CONCLUSIONS
2. Whether the pandemic will support nationalism and tighter borders even in the longer term.
3. The role of domestic tourism in the recovery and the longer-term transformation to more resilient destinations.
4. The pandemic raises questions of vulnerability, as low-paid jobs in tourism have been affected by the crisis and early indications are the tourism impacts in countries will be considerably greater.
5. COVID-19 provides striking lessons to the tourism industry, policy makers and tourism researchers about the effects of global change. The challenge is now to collectively learn from this global tragedy to accelerate the transformation of sustainable tourism.