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The end of global travel as we know it: an opportunity for sustainable tourism

  • Written by Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, University of South Australia
The end of global travel as we know it: an opportunity for sustainable tourism

Saturday, March 14 2020, is “The Day the World Stopped Travelling”, in the words of Rifat Ali, head of travel analytics company Skift.

That’s a little dramatic, perhaps, but every day since has brought us closer to it being reality.

The COVID-19 crisis has the global travel industry – “the most consequential...

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