International tourists splash out $1.6trn each year. But this year, the UN World Tourism Organisation predicts a fall in travel spending of $910bn-1.2trn
is the absence—of cars outside the building, of people inside it, of any activity at all. So astonished was Alaba, an Uber driver, as he approached Heathrow airport on a Saturday morning in May that he circled the final roundabout twice, crying, “This can’t be Heathrow.”
Tourism is a giant of the global economy. People went on 1.4bn foreign trips in 2018, twice the number in 2000 . In that time a rich-country habit became a global one. Such was the scramble to attract tourists, countries started projecting themselves as global travel brands . By the industry’s reckoning, 330m jobs—from well-paid airline pilots to tour guides and dishwashers working unseen in expensive resorts—depend on travellers.
For now European leaders, from Italy to France, are hoping that locals who cannot leave will replace foreigners who cannot enter. That might work, to some extent and in some countries. But many tourist hotspots, like Iceland or Caribbean islands, have too few locals to replace absent foreigners. Malta, which each year hosts nearly six foreign visitors for every native, might get a quarter of the 2.
Upending the world’s travel habits even for a few months will have long-term effects. If tourists discover the virtues of new locations, they will want to return. Using health and hygiene as marketing tools is a return to old form. Richard Clarke of Bernstein, a research firm, notes that an ad for Holiday Inn from the 1970s emphasised cleanliness as the chain’s main selling point, ahead of location and comfort. It will come to the fore again, to the benefit of big brands. People may put up with spartan digs if they know they have been thoroughly disinfected. Marriott now boasts of a “Global Cleanliness Council”.
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