The 'One Planet Vision for the Responsible Recovery of the Tourism Sector' builds on the UNWTO Global Guidelines to Restart Tourism, with the aim to emerge stronger and more sustainable from the COVID-19 crisis.
The UNTWO has highlighted the severe impact the pandemic could have on livelihoods in Small Island Destinations where tourism accounts for a large proportion of total exports. It warns that women and informal workers are particularly vulnerable to falling tourist numbers.
The coronavirus pandemic has had a damaging effect on tourism businesses, their employees and supply chains across Africa. This article looks at how two countries on the opposite coasts of Africa, the Gambia and Kenya, are responding to current challenges.
Six non-governmental organisations have come together to call for a rebalance in tourism as the sector recovers from COVID-19. The Future of Tourism Coalition shares a global mission: to place destination needs at the centre of tourism’s new future.
This story from Mozambique is a strong example of female resilience in the face of COVID-19. While businesses, whose main clients are hotels and the tourist industry, are facing collapse, there are ways of turning the situation around in transformative ways.
