Planes, trains and a whole lot of pain: Tourism and COVID-19

Cruise ships stuck at sea, airlines going into voluntary administration, borders closed and travellers racing deadlines to get home. There’s no doubt the travel and tourism industry was an early victim of COVID-19. But what does recovery look like? On this episode of Seriously Social, tourism expert Professor Sara Dolnicar from UQ’s Business School explains what the tourism industry of the future might look like.

 

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• A post-COVID-19 model of of tourism and hospitality workforce resilience A Martins, T Riordan, S Dolnicar
• How to waste less on vacation TEDxUQ Sara Dolnicar
• COVID19 and Airbnb–disrupting the disruptor. Sara Dolnicar, Samira Zare