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I<\/span>n 2019, the United Nations World Tourism Organization reported that international travel had increased to a record\u00a01.4 billion<\/a>\u00a0tourist arrivals. It predicted a 3% to 4% annual increase in coming years. That didn\u2019t happen, of course. At the end of 2021, international tourist arrivals were 72% below pre-pandemic levels with 1 billion fewer arrivals than two years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is despite airlines\u2019 ingenuity. During Australian lockdown, Qantas organised flights to nowhere: one left Sydney for a fly-by tour of Byron Bay and the Gold Coast, the Great Barrier Reef and Uluru; another in May last year took passengers to 43,000ft to see the blood-red supermoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to UNWTO\u2019s executive director, Zoritsa Urosevic, tourism has been the sector hit hardest by Covid-19 and, while countries such as China were able to switch to domestic tourism, smaller nations such as Fiji, where tourism represents between 40% and 70% of GDP<\/a>, fared far worse. The pandemic put an estimated 120m tourism jobs at risk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisation reckons that by 2024 international tourism will have returned to pre-pandemic levels<\/a>. Surely that is a good thing. \u201cThere hasn\u2019t been a war in Europe for 50 years because they\u2019re all too busy flying on Ryanair,\u201d the airline\u2019s Michael O\u2019Leary once told<\/a> me. \u201cI should get the Nobel peace prize \u2013 screw Bono.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Covid\u2019s impact ameliorates as hoped, it will be replaced by a new virus \u2013 wanderlust. Millennials, according to one survey<\/a>, would rather travel than have sex \u2013 and not only because they\u2019re probably doing the latter wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great Britain\u2019s tourist board, VisitBritain, makes a strong economic case<\/a> for tourism: its impact is amplified through the economy because for every \u00a31,000 generated in direct tourism, a further \u00a31,800 arises thanks to supply chain and consumer spending. In that context, it is not just our pleasure but our duty to help out Britain\u2019s beleaguered Basil Fawltys and their Fijian equivalents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an excerpt from an article by Stuart Jeffries, originally published by The Guardian<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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