of tourism. This is a BIG step.

going to really travel anywhere in the world after this. Look at what happened to those folks on the cruise ships. Couldn't find a port to dock and disembark the passengers, etc. And places are openly saying 'don't come and visit us now, please'.

Figures. As long as money is involved, there are going to be people who are more concerned w/ money over lives. Can't even wait for the CV epidemic to subside fully before pushing the doors open and proclaiming 'open for business!'.

We don't even have a test in place yet, to determine if a person is CV-positive or not. So, do tourists/travelers all have to self-quarantine themselves for two weeks after getting to a travel destination? Do the tourists/travelers know that the place(s) they're going to, safe?

I suspect that tourists and others are going to ignore such pleas from tourist authorities (mainly being that tourists and/or our interconnected world via air travel) probably spread the CV to quite a few places. I also suspect that some localities are going to restrict tourism, etc. in some manner, to try and reduce future outbreaks (kind of makes sense, eh?). It's a whole new world out there, and I suspect tourism boards are going to find out the hard way that old ways don't work anymore (ads such as promoting tourism, etc.).

n/t

It will be a very slow rebound for a couple of years but we will get back to pre-COVID levels at some point. Too many livelihoods depend on tourism for it to just subside.

depended on the tourism dollars out there floating around. A lot of these places are going to have a reckoning, in that the travel dollars they counted on aren't going to be there, or if they are, there aren't enough to keep the business going.

But with unemployment at record levels across the entire globe, and many businesses shuttering their doors for good, and the ravishes of the CV still underway in isolated places on the globe where the CV has finally made inroads into these areas (Africa, South America), I suspect that tourism has changed forever in ways we've yet to see (other than the fact that lots of people don't have the money anymore to travel, compared to before the CV epidemic).

Sure, some places will try and spruce up / juice up tourism somehow, but it's going to take some work, being that travel by cruise liners is pretty well shot to heck, travel by air/train/etc. is pretty close to it (empty airplanes, who would have ever thought it would happen again?), and places asking that tourists don't come. Automotive travel seems to be up (self contained), and other 'safe' pursuits such as playing board games at home are gaining favor.

Maybe if someone comes up w/ a unique perspective in traveling in the post-CV world? E.g., travel to the Sahara Desert or polar regions of the globe, where all of the UV light will kill the CV? I am not laughing when I say this, for I wouldn't be surprised if someone eventually did this, to promote travel. Thing is, making it profitable is going to be key, being that global economies have been shook to the core, e.g., oil below zero dollars a barrel?

The thing is that humans aren't meant to stay at home 24 hours a day. It's a big world out there and you can't explore it from a 2" window on a video conference chat.

In fact, all this excessive video chatting that we're doing is actually being seen as detrimental to your overall mental health. Human beings need social interaction with other human beings. Not having that in daily life will be showing to be overall contributing to a mental decline in a lot of people.

Will tourism come back? Sure. Will it ever reach pre COVID levels again? Probably. It will be a long, slow burn in a return to what we had prior to the outbreak once this thing is officially over. People want to get back to what we had. But we're not just going to take a high dive off the deep end and everything will be back to normal.

Viruses are parasites. The current best scientific information suggests that the only imperative they seem to operate under is to find a host, infiltrate susceptible cells of that host, hijack the host cells' reproductive apparatus, make as many copies of itself as possible and then cause the host cells to self-destruct. Repeat as often as possible until the host breaks the cycle by defeating the viruses attack or the host dying.

The only way this pandemic stops if either the parasites (virus) reaches a state of equilibrium with their hosts and can reproduce without killing the host or the parasite can't find susceptible hosts to infect.

The parasite doesn't care about the emotional or mental well being of its hosts nor does it care about the economic impact its infections cause the hosts' societies.

It will continue to infect as long as it can find susceptible hosts. Period.

as people vacation closer to home, even a couple/few hundred miles away if that's what it takes. It won't be the same dollars, but here on the CA coast, people were already filling hotels that are usually mostly empty in the winter because they were feeling landlocked and with cabin fever. Hotels were ordered to shut down the very next day when some communities pushed back. As things open a bit, desirable places will still get tourists if not in the numbers as before.

Seriously?? Gawd...I wouldn't get on board if they paid me and my roommate was Stormy. But for those that do,have fun being stuck at sea with no port taking you and then dying.

This has calamità written all over it.