Covid-19 has paused the world economy. Tourism industry is one of the worse effected sector even declined to below zero level. The news has not sounded better lately.
There are many tourism webinars and e-workshops but it were more rhetoric than action driven. Here the tourism expert says;
“There are only two ways to survive in travel and hospitality business in this two or even till three years!” said Arief Gunawan, the Chairman of International Luxury Travel & Hospitality Alliance during Tourism Future Outlook webinar.
We can only overcome Covid-19 with through discipline, rule and regulation obedience. Seem the necessary disciplinary action should be taken otherwise.
Several countries have a dilemma to enforce the domestic poliregulation which more pro to economy or health approach. The global outlook is not very positive –– the UN’s International Labour Organization predicts more than 1.6 billion informal economy workers could suffer “massive damage” to their livelihoods. In the second quarter of 2020, COVID-19 may cost the equivalent of 305 million full-time jobs.
“First it can only switch and develop into domestic market, like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam they have shown the domestic market has driven the tourism industries grow positively, and Second, if you still expect for regional or international market come back, then the only way is, your government has to approach to have a travel bubble first. For example to those destinations (Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam) have successfully manage the pandemic, they may have an agreement to work together to open the border.” Arief Gunawan explained.
The easing in recent weeks of social-distancing mandates in several cities as businesses have reopened has caused an acceleration in infections. In infectious disease parlance, waves of infection describe the curve of an outbreak, reflecting a rise and fall in the number of cases that could worsen in the coming months. Epidemiologists said there is no formal definition of a second wave, but they know it when they see it. “Therefore be careful for giving a Free Covid-19 Certification to the Travel & Hospitality industries also, if they cannot maintain it, it may cause worse when it happened to those have been certified!” Arief warned to the industry.