![]() ![]() People have romanticized road trips forever. This means travelers and tourists will likely look for private places where they’re the only people in them, or at least avoid hotels or inns or booking together during holidays. Lauderdale! #SocialDistancing is critical! /JtCgKpS8trīecause the virus has an incubation period of up to two weeks and can infect people even then, it’s a good idea to practice social distancing even when looking at places to retreat from the world. Take a look at this analysis we ran focused on Spring Breakers traveling to and from Ft. ![]() A geospatial map simulation by data analytics firm Tectonix GEO showed that the aforementioned spring breakers might have carried the virus everywhere else on the eastern half of the US, and as far west as Seeing the real impact on a map can help paint a clearer picture about the spread of #Covid19Out. While there’s no official timetable to when we would see its end-some believe it’s going to be early fall or until 2022, as a University of Minnesota study opines-public resorts will be mothballed in favor of private villas or retreats.Īnd for a good reason. This time, after the pandemic ends, going to crowded places will become a cultural taboo, akin to coughing at someone else’s face. If there’s one thing people have learned from that viral video of spring breakers “defying” the virus is that it’s really bad to insist on going to crowded places. There are some likely things to happen after the world develops a vaccine and travel returns. Instead, tourism will become a more mindful, deliberate experience punctuated by increased sanitation and avoidance of overcrowding and overtourism. No longer will people be inclined to “tick” all the boxes by traveling willy-nilly everywhere or purchase the most exciting travel accessories find. It is critical that we learn from such pandemic and advance our societies to become stronger.While it is almost a certainty that travel will be back, the virus will forever change the tourism landscape. ![]() Third, the pandemic is a clear reprimand to discard the mantra that privatization of healthcare delivery system is the solution in favor of viewing health as a public good that needs to be managed and executed by the state and its public sector, be it national, sub-regional or local. Second, the COVID-19 pandemic has cautioned us on the need to (re)invest in basic, many may consider naïve and simple, public health functions such as sanitation as well as transparent national and global health monitoring. First, there is need to shelf-away the hitherto practiced doctrine that global crises and problems are confronted through local responses. We argue that three realities need to be genuinely addressed for building a post COVID-19 order that has to be amply equipped to deal with the next global crisis, as well as the ones on-going for decades. The global economic fallout is also unprecedented as the flows of goods and people got severely disrupted while lockdowns hit the transport, services and retail industries, among others. The pandemic has also inflicted serious damages on global and regional governing political structures to a degree meriting a revisit of their own raison d'etre. COVID-19 has infected hundreds of millions of people across the globe. ![]()
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