Tourism in Europe, reinventing everything or not?

By: Daniel Desesquelle

Of all the sectors that have suffered from the Covid-19 pandemic, tourism is probably the one that has come out of the crisis the most devastated.

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In Europe, tourism represents 1% of German GDP, but 20% of that of Croatia.
However, this summer, Europeans will go on vacation but especially at home.

The intra-European borders have barely reopened and still not all. As for the Schengen border, it is still closed to Asian or American tourists.
The large tourist countries of the South will not experience the influx of past years.
If all the players in the sector are reached, the growth model of airlines, tour operators and cruise lines is threatened. Will the coronavirus permanently challenge mass tourism in favor of local tourism that is more respectful of the environment or, on the contrary, will tourism afterwards eventually resemble tourism before?

With:
-  Karima Delli , MEP Europe ecology the Greens  (EELV), president of the Transport and Tourism Committee of the European Parliament . 
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- Jean Louis Baroux , president of APG .
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-  Jean-Pierre Mas , president of Entreprises du voyage .
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- Eugénio Vassilikos , secretary general of the Athens Hoteliers Association . Online from Athens. 

With Maria Afonso and Sasha Mitchell of Courrier International.

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