COVID-19

Scroll down for posts that have been tagged with “COVID-19” — the coronavir­us SARS-CoV­‑2 dis­ease and the coronavir­us SARS-CoV­‑2 pan­dem­ic — and how it has affected travel & tour­ism des­tin­a­tions and industry stakeholders.

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Elephant health experts seek emergency funds for unemployed tourism elephants

and May 8, 2020

Dr Sarisa Klinhom (L) & Dr Tittaya Janyamethakul (R) attend to Mae Noi in Thailand. Image supplied by author.

The expres­sion “an ele­phant in the room” means an uncom­fort­able truth we can­not ignore. With tour­ism cash flows stemmed, many Asi­an ele­phants and their mahouts in Thai­l­and and else­where are in deep trouble. Hol­lis Bur­b­ank­-Ham­­marlund of Work for Wild Life Inter­na­tion­al tells us why that’s the case and how we can help. COVID-19 has suddenly […]

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Turn down the volume: How to plan for a sustainable tourism recovery after C‑19

May 6, 2020
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Leatherback hatching at Khao Lampi - Hat Thai Mueng national park. Image courtesy of (c) Phuket Marine National Parks Operations Center 2 / https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2624818794469718&set=pcb.2624819491136315&type=1&theater

Bangkok-based travel & hos­pit­al­ity entre­pren­eur and sus­tain­able tour­ism advoc­ate Willem Niemeijer sees an oppor­tun­ity in the SARS-CoV­­‑2 crisis; an oppor­tun­ity to rebal­ance tour­ism with more sens­ible man­age­ment and less vis­it­or volume. But make your plans swiftly because Mr Niemeijer reck­ons recov­ery will be faster than many think. The lock­down meas­ures in place to keep the […]

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Join Operation Recuperation to give healthcare workers a well-deserved break post-COVID-19

April 23, 2020

Image by Tumisu (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/coronavirus-doctor-research-fight-4944680/

Travel blog­ger Rachel Sher­wood is col­lect­ing pledges from accom­mod­a­tion pro­viders and second home own­ers to give health­care work­ers on the front lines of the coronavir­us SARS-CoV­­‑2 fight a well-deserved break. It’s called Oper­a­tion Recu­per­a­tion. Can you gift a future stay in your hotel or second home to our health­care work­ers? I’m hop­ing the answer is […]

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Why travel matters and why I will continue to make travel matter after COVID-19

April 2, 2020

Connections matter. Image (CCO) via PxFuel. https://www.pxfuel.com/en/free-photo-jywzc

Accord­ing to its founder Kar­en Sim­monds, inde­pend­ent lux­ury travel agency Travel Mat­ters was built upon the strong sense of respons­ib­il­ity she feels for des­tin­a­tions. In this fresh “GT” Insight, Ms Sim­monds sum­mar­ises her agency’s ori­gin story and philo­sophy and what she’s doing to help com­munit­ies more vul­ner­able to the coronavir­us COVID-19 pan­dem­ic than hers.  I set […]

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As we sit out COVID-19, let’s think about a fair & fail-safe treatment or vaccine for overtourism

March 21, 2020
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Top image by Geralt (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/vaccine-chemist-outbreak-4946479/ Bottom image by Duncan Hull (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr, which "GT" cropped among other things. https://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/29569046192

Dur­ing this coronavir­us COVID-19 pan­dem­ic we are see­ing some­thing we have wit­nessed many times before — the fickle­ness of travel & tour­ism demand — exacer­bated by enforced travel restric­tions. As gov­ern­ments around the world shut down travel, bor­ders, and gath­er­ings of vari­ous sizes to “flat­ten the curve” of coronavir­us con­ta­gion and buy time to devel­op treat­ments and vac­cines, your […]

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Joint statement on tourism & COVID-19: UNWTO, WHO call for responsibility, coordination

February 26, 2020

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Joint state­ment from WHO & UNWTO: Mad­rid, Spain and Geneva, Switzer­land, 26 Feb­ru­ary 2020 – As the cur­rent out­break of the Coronavir­us Dis­ease (COVID-19) con­tin­ues to devel­op, the World Health Organ­iz­a­tion (WHO) and the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) are com­mit­ted to work­ing togeth­er in guid­ing the travel and tour­ism sec­tors’ response to COVID-19. On 30 January […]

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