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, “GT” wondered what a fail-safe vaccine or treatment for overtourism might look like.
Overtourism is addiction
When everything is going well, travel & tourism does very well.
The phenomenon of “overtourism”, about which there is always lots of complaints, is a symptom of an unhealthy dependence on tourism for jobs and economic activity. We know that, yet this dependence is why little gets done to solve the problem. It is politically and economically difficult to solve because the withdrawal symptoms are rough.
So when something unexpected happens and visitors stop arriving, the withdrawals are even rougher. Many livelihoods suffer. And if visitors stay away for an extended period, which may well be the case with COVID-19, it could be devastating.
Meanwhile, places that don’t depend on tourism do so much better. Fewer residents rely on visitors directly. While there are indirect knock-on effects, of course, one could say those places have better immunity or greater self-reliance. “GT” prefers the latter.
Locals understand their priorities better than you do
Fans of “Good news in tourism …” will know ... Read the full post at https://goodtourismblog.com/2020/03/as-we-sit-out-covid-19-lets-think-about-a-fair-fail-safe-treatment-or-vaccine-for-overtourism/
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