The future of Tourism post-COVID 19

The obvious issue is that many parts of our life affected by COVID-19 and they won’t get back to their previous procedure. Many estimates are being thrown around about the potential impact of COVID-19 on global and national economies. The virus is hitting organizations hard from all over the world. Businesses and people try to be compatible with this new situation. All of us should think in a different way and find the best compatible solutions with this condition.

Maybe it is hard to accept that our lifestyle has been changed and many things that we could do easily before Covid-19, are impossible to do now.

The most immediate and perhaps the most prolonged impact would be on travel and tourism sectors, nearly 120 economies now have some sort of travel restrictions ranging from outright blanket bans to all travelers to selective geographical restrictions for the same reason.

As the world slowly turns back to normal it is very likely that international travel restrictions will linger on to avoid “importing” new COVID-19 cases. To support their tourism sectors, countries may purposefully restrict outward travel and encourage local tourism as a substitute. In essence, domestic travel and tourism will be expected to substitute foreign tourism demand, at least for the time being. For some countries, this will not nearly be enough, especially in terms of generating foreign currency revenues.

At some later stage, In the beginning, countries may require a COVID-19 free certificate. Needless to say, host countries themselves will also need to show they are safe for tourists. This goes beyond having low reported infection numbers, but also having credible systems in place in case tourists do get sick. Such provisions may include government guarantee for private treatment. And of course, recipient countries will have to make it easier for travelers to arrive. This will mean improving visa application processes (making them online) or outright waiving them, perhaps as part of bilateral arrangements.

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought travel and tourism to a near-standstill, and no one is sure when it will restart. Experts say when travel does begin again, look for it to start with road trips not too far from home.

The new travel normal may mean a shift to vacation rentals over hotels, driving rather than flying, and an increase in the use of travel insurance and personal travel advisors. When people get more comfortable, they’ll continue to go farther and farther away from home, starting with domestic and then moving to international, long-term.

The most interesting thing is that there are more future reservations for the holidays right now than we have seen in that point of time in May 2019 for the holiday season last year, which means there’s a lot of optimism and people are planning ahead. we’re going to see a lot of families and multi-gen travel but in a different way, a safer way.

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