At a time when infection rates of the emerging corona virus keep rising in a number of countries and regions around the world, other countries are taking additional steps in efforts to re-normalize life and overcome the pandemic stage, hoping to revive the tourism sector, which is one of the most prominent sectors affected by the pandemic.
And many reports and studies dealt with the effects of the pandemic and the extent of its impact on the economies of countries, where the World Tourism Organization confirms that the effects of the pandemic will range between 60 to 80% at the global level.
Multiple countries around the world have decided to take "bold" steps to revive the tourism sector, while no global body has issued agreed standards for naming the safe countries, but the steps taken in a number of countries have produced 5 steps and major factors that will contribute to achieving real progress in efforts to revitalize the sector Tourism, which will lead to the formation of a new map of global tourism in the coming period.
The first of these criteria is related to the health situation in the countries and the extent of their control over the virus and the efficiency of the precautionary measures applied to them. As for the second of these criteria, it is related to the efficiency of the system of procedures and requirements applied in airports, hotels and tourist areas, where these procedures will determine the size of the confidence of tourists and contribute to resolving its decision in the destinations that they trust Its safety ratios.
The official readiness and regulatory decisions related to the opening of the transportation sector and the provision of trips to and from countries will determine the date for the return of the tourism sector to work and the speed of its recovery.
There is no doubt that the ability of the tourism sector to withstand first and then recover from the impact of the pandemic will contribute to the extent of the sector's ability to continue and move to a full recovery stage, which will depend on the extent to which it benefits from government support systems and the facilities it obtained or will obtain to meet the challenges it imposed The pandemic.
In the same context, the choices of individuals and tourists will have an important role in determining the tourist map and the most requested cities during the coming months, as the decision to travel will be a decisive factor in starting the recovery of the sector globally, especially since most of the expectations and studies indicate that the cost of travel will increase in varying proportions during the recovery phase.
The World Tourism Organization confirms that tourism will work in cooperation with its partners, including the World Health Organization, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Maritime Organization, the International Air Transport Association and other key stakeholders to coordinate and coherence the steps to return to tourism and confront this situation and ensure a balanced and responsible manner .