Partnership between International Air Transport Association and the World Tourism organisation to increase confidence in flying and tourism globally. The memorandum of understanding has been signed up hours ahead the G20 summit and its main purpose is to enhance public confidence in international travel and to response in those challenging times. The pandemic has destroyed public interest in tourism and the two agents believe that now it is vital to reshape tourism.
"The safe opening of borders is essential. Tourist want to feel safe and they want to be confident that their travel plans won't be affected by last-minute changes to rules and regulations. For this to happen, even greater collaboration between the public and private sectors is needed. This enhanced partnership with the World Tourism Organization will help guide aviation's recovery over the critical months ahead." says Alexandre Juniac IATA director.
Tourism and travel restrictions are at risk and millions of jobs have been at risk since the pandemic has started . Tourism still faces on of the most challenging times because of the virus and millions of jobs have been at risk as countries and imposes travel restrictions and international travel has been banned among certain countries due to the ongoing pandemic.Strong and coordinated actions are required to save millions of livelihoods.
This crisis also creating an even hardship in low-income and developing countries and their communities which disproportionately depends on tourism and are now facing a higher risk of poverty. said in a statement the world tourism organisation recently. "Air travel is an essential component of a global tourism. This partnership between world tourism organisation and International air transport association will see us work closely together to increase confidence in flying and tourism in general. The United Nations World Tourism Organization will use our expertise" said Zurab Poloikashlli UNWTO secretary-general.
With a 60-80% decline in international tourism foreseen for 2020 and a drop between US $910 billion and $1.2 trillion in exports over 100 millions of direct tourism jobs are at risk. Apart from direct jobs tourism is linked to many other sectors such as agro-food, constructions, transportation, distribution and all of which are exacerbate the size of the shock.
Covid-19 crisis has shown the macroeconomic importance of tourism in G20 countries. Many business across the industry are fighting to survive with an effect on young people women rural communities informal workers that are more likely to be employed in small businesses.
Re-shaping tourism restoring public confidence to start flying international and will be the major topic on the agenda of the G20 meeting this October 7 2020 , in order to save millions of livelihood that are at risk.
