Posted November 25, 2021 07:30
· last edited November 25, 2021 07:37
coochiee
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You have picked two places. SE Asian countries would laugh at that comment. Ryan
I doubt tourism as we know it will exist again anyway, it's clearly not environmentally sustainable and was overwhelming resources.
Places like Prague and Venice actually enjoyed not having tourists and are now focusing on sustainable tourism rather than mass tourism.
So would all of Latin America and Africa.
Think millions of retired folks from wealthy countries won’t continue to take off somewhere, as we continue to live longer. Increasing richer classes in India and China, keen to head offshore.
Nasty for the planet as it is, air travel will get back to near pre Covid levels in 1-2 years. Yeah some Euro cities (Barca another) may put up the barricades and even NZ to be point as Covid causes a rethink
But the vast 2nd-3rd world wants more tourists not less
China will have, barring collapse or unforeseen madness, a billion strong middle class, maybe a billion point two iirc. I would be surprised if there were many on this forum who’d never traveled at some point. If even only a percentage of that up and coming group in China head overseas that’s still enormous demand. There’s going to be desire too after COVID to prove everything is still there and normal.
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coochiee
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You have picked two places. SE Asian countries would laugh at that comment. Ryan
I doubt tourism as we know it will exist again anyway, it's clearly not environmentally sustainable and was overwhelming resources.
Places like Prague and Venice actually enjoyed not having tourists and are now focusing on sustainable tourism rather than mass tourism.
So would all of Latin America and Africa.
Think millions of retired folks from wealthy countries won’t continue to take off somewhere, as we continue to live longer. Increasing richer classes in India and China, keen to head offshore.
Nasty for the planet as it is, air travel will get back to near pre Covid levels in 1-2 years. Yeah some Euro cities (Barca another) may put up the barricades and even NZ to be point as Covid causes a rethink
But the vast 2nd-3rd world wants more tourists not less
China will have, barring collapse or unforeseen madness, a billion strong middle class. I would be surprised if there were many on this forum who’d never traveled at some point. If even only a percentage of that up and coming group in China head overseas that’s still enormous demand. There’s going to be desire too after COVID to prove everything is still there and normal.