{"id":3347,"date":"2020-08-21T12:27:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2020-08-21T12:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:27:39","slug":"how-will-emerging-economies-reliant-on-tourism-survive-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/etourism-lab\/2020\/08\/21\/how-will-emerging-economies-reliant-on-tourism-survive-the-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will Emerging Economies Reliant on Tourism Survive the Crisis?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Will Emerging Economies Reliant on Tourism Survive the Crisis?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/skift.com\/2020\/08\/21\/how-will-emerging-economies-reliant-on-tourism-survive-the-crisis\/<\/a><\/p>\n

21 August 2020<\/p>\n

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Dimitrios Buhalis, a professor of tourism at Bournemouth University, told Skift that countries which can temporarily divert their tourism workforce to other industries, such as to agriculture or fishing, may be able to weather the storm and see their tourism economies pick up where they left off, eventually. He pointed\u00a0<\/span>to the example<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>of Bali, Indonesia, where the tourism workforce has largely shifted to more traditional economic means \u2014 certainly not without hardship.<\/p>\n

But, Buhalis said, \u201cwhere it\u2019s more difficult is where tourism is 60, 70, 80 percent of the local economy and where you don\u2019t have a local domestic market. Places where the country is small, geography does not support easy accessibility, and the social classes are very structured.\u201d He noted that some Greek islands and countries such as the Maldives fall into this category.<\/p>\n

Conversely, Buhalis said the emerging markets that will fare the best during Covid are those that have a large domestic population, an income distribution which means a sizeable percentage of locals can afford to travel, and the geography and infrastructure that allows them to do so.<\/p>\n

Though he believes that tourism will recover \u2014 \u201cwe\u2019ve seen how many people are desperate to travel\u201d \u2014 he thinks the current moment represents something of a \u201cfallow period\u201d for tourism, one where governments who have already invested in tourism economies should continue to build up infrastructure and make industries more efficient for what he sees as tourism\u2019s inevitable return.<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from the health crisis we\u2019re about to experience a major global recession beyond belief and that will damage tourism and will create a range of initiatives to prepare us for the next day,\u201d Buhalis said. \u201cWe need to improve efficiency and we need to improve the way that we manage tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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