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"TRAVEL IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC"

TOURISM AND COVID-19 – UNPRECEDENTED ECONOMIC IMPACTS

The Policy Brief provides an overview of the pandemic's socioeconomic impacts on tourism, including the millions of jobs it supports. It emphasizes the role of tourism in advancing the SDGs, including its relationship with environmental goals and culture. The Brief emphasizes the importance of mitigating the effects on livelihoods, particularly for women, youth, and informal workers.

The crisis provides an opportunity to reconsider how tourism interacts with our societies, other economic sectors, and natural resources and ecosystems; to better measure and manage it; to ensure equitable distribution of its benefits; and to accelerate the transition to a carbon-neutral and resilient tourism economy.

HUGE IMPACT ON LIVELIHOODS

-Several examples of community involvement in nature tourism demonstrate how communities, including indigenous peoples, can protect their cultural and natural heritage while creating wealth and improving their well-being. The impact of COVID-19 on tourism puts additional strain on heritage conservation as well as community cultural and social fabric, particularly for indigenous peoples and ethnic groups.

-Many intangible cultural heritage practices, such as traditional festivals and gatherings, have been halted or postponed, and the closure of markets for handicrafts, products, and other goods has had a particularly negative impact on indigenous women's revenues.