While some of what Toffler wrote back then cover samsung j7/6 may not be as relevant today, but the title of his book and its premise based on too much change in too short a period of time is more than valid and relevant in current times.
The travel tourism business especially is on its knees worldwide. Country borders are sealed. Cities are at stand still. Flights are grounded. Cruise ships are docked in harbours. Trains are stationary. Buses are not plying. Hotels are shut. Restaurants are shuttered. No one knows when the fury of the virus will abate; no vaccine is in sight; people are cloistered in their homes. Social distancing is the new mantra. Masks and gloves are the new safety accoutrements. And no one is even thinking of a holiday, let alone planning for one.
India attracted 10.5 million foreign visitors last year; 5 million NRIs travelled back home cover iphone x med store, HARLEY DAVIDSON 4 cover iPhone X / XS to be with family and friends; 1.8 billion Indians travelled within the country for holidays, pleasure and leisure; 26 million Indians travelled overseas for cover iphone x avanti e dietro, GTR LOGO cover iPhone X / XS tourism. All of these statistics seem like a far cry today. On current indications, the lockdowns curfews may drag on till the end of this year in varying intensities and impositions. No one really knows, or can accurately predict how all this is going to pan out, going forward. Even if offices and restaurants re open soon, it will take longer for malls, gyms, theatres and other high density locations to go back on stream. The pick up of the travel tourism industry is the farthest in that chain as it is xanax cover iphone x, HOT COACH MICKEY COUPLE cover iPhone X / XS inextricably linked to the return of normalcy, cover iphone x di lusso, GAARA NARUTO ANIME CHIBI cover iPhone X / XS that too soonest.
India has an estimated 53,000 travel agents, 115,000 tour operators, 15,000 adventure companies, 911,000 tourist transporters, 53,000 hospitality companies and five lakh restaurantsthe industry employs an estimated 3.8 crore people. And these statistics do not include numbers for aviation and starred hotels which are not in the medium small enterprises count.
Actually, fear is the key. Fear of the unknown. Fear of the infection. Fear of touching someone. Fear of being touched. Fear of being infected, and infecting family and friends. Fear of being infected, and being far away from good healthcare. Fear of bringing back the virus from travels overseas. Fear. More fear. And yet more fear. Actually, suspicion and fear. And that suspicion, and that fear will take dollops of good news, on multiple fronts, over a prolonged period cover samsung galaxy j5 2017 stitch of time to abate, and be totally dispelled. Till then travel tourism are literally in the doghouse.
Let us look at 25 possible trends cover iphone x stussy, JACOB SARTORIUS cover iPhone X / XS in the near future, each important in its own way:
1. Country borders may not be open to all for some time. The movement of people across borders has come to a standstill in much of the world as countries have closed their borders to visitors and sometimes their own citizens in response to the coronavirus outbreak. At least nine tenths (91%) of the world’s population, or 7.1 billion people, lives in countries with restrictions on people arriving from other countries who are neither citizens nor residents, such as tourists, business travelers and new immigrants. Roughly 3 billion people, or 39%, live in countries with borders completely closed to noncitizens and nonresidents. The situation may take many months to ease. EU is likely to have a no entry sign till September, 2020.
2. Some geographies may become no no for a while. Countries like template cover iphone x, DVA OVERWATCH CUTE ANIME 2 cover iPhone X / XS Italy and Spain, even Germany and UK, and of course the US, that have recorded large number of corona deaths may not have too many takers for tourism in the near future. China too looks like negative territory for now. cover iphone x hülle, FORD CAR LAMP cover iPhone X / XS Indians were greatly fond of travel to Europe but some of that fascination may recede because of all the xanax cover iphone x, HEART PIRATES ONE PIECE 2 cover iPhone X / XS bad news that has been coming from the continent in past months. It will take a bit of time for these countries to re gain their charm.
3. Business travel will decrease significantly. Already Zoom meetings have become the norm. Corporate advisories are out in most multinationals negating travel. A significant proportion of companies are actively seeking both to reduce business travel and to cut the number of cover iphone x bumper, EVIL QUEEN cover iPhone X / XS employees commuting even to the workplace, as per research by global agency Sewells. 66% of businesses worldwide have set targets to reduce their volume of internal travel. 60% cover iphone x product red, HARLEY DAVIDSON NEW cover iPhone X / XS of businesses have targets to cut trips to suppliers. 66% of businesses have targets to lower the number of journeys to clients. 65% of businesses consider video conferencing as a viable alternative to business travel. Things are not looking good.
4. MICE market will go into coma for a while. Most big global eventsconferences, launches, festivals, seminars, symposiums, conventionsstarted to get cancelled by end February itself as the Covid panic gathered momentum. The spectator sports were the first casualties. The Olympics got postponed by a year. IPL was cancelled. Wimbledon scrapped. And then the cascade startedFacebook F8, Google I/O, ITB Berlin, Expo 2020, NAB Show, Geneva Motorshowwell everything is cancelled or postponed. It is going to be a while before the enthusiasm for large gathering events will reignite.
5. Mega flip cover samsung s10 plus events will become less attractive. The flagship events of 2020 were surely the Olympics in Tokyo and the Expo in Dubai. Both have been pushed by a year, in the hope that the world will cover iphone x a specchio, GIBSON GUITAR 2 cover iPhone X / XS limp back to normalcy by mid to late 2021. No one can tell. In any case, till a secure vaccine is found and Covid looks conquerable, and controllable, mega world events may lose their sheen and will be pale shadows of what they could have been.
6. Group travel will shrink. India was becoming an increasingly large group travel market for first timers and middle class families. Both for reasons of affordability, and safety fears, this segment is likely to shrink significantly. This summer is almost done for. Too early for winter predictions. By the end of April, just in the US, the impact of the coronavirus on the travel industry was expected to add up to a loss of 5.9 million jobs and US $910 billion in travel related economic output. That’s seven times the impact of 9/11. And it has only started. In India the picture could be even more dismal.
7. Leisure travel too will dwindle for some time. With so much uncertaintyshut borders, grounded flights, shuttered establishments, job losses, recessionary economy, uncertain school termsholidays seem a distant frontier for now. Global travel seems bleak. Domestic prospects may be somewhat better. But the holiday mood at this point is not buoyant enough. Leisure may find other avenues for now.
8. Lesser number of students may travel overseas to study. 753,000 Indian students were studying in universities abroad in 2019. The number could well be closer to 800,000 this year. A large number of them rushed home cover iphone x pitaka, GRATEFUL DEAD BLUES FOR ALLAH cover iPhone X / XS from wherever they were studying, before airports were shut and flights suspended. Some are attending classes digitally today. Most are just twiddling their thumbs with no clue on continuation of terms or new admissions. Many may not go back this semester/this year. Worse, a lot of the well heeled crowd of parents and families that invariably travels for graduations at this time of the year will not be going anywhere.
9. Religious tourism will drop. With administrative directions on mass gatherings being issued across states, with the detection of a COVID 19 case in Amritsar, closure of the Tirupati, Vaishno Devi and Shirdi temples, and the calling off of Friday prayers at the Bada Imambada in Lucknow, even the Gods are out of bounds for people. Most religious destinations saw a sharp decline in numbers by cover samsung tablet s5e mid March itself: Puri, Ajmer, Coimbatore, Govardhan, Hospet, Kartarpur Saheb all sputtered to a close as the faithful kept away. cover samsung j3 stitch 3d On Akshay Tritya, there were zero crowds at Kashi cover samsung grand prime adidas Vishwanath. Globally too, pictures of Mecca circulating on the net without any Hajis, shows God too is headed for a hiatus.
10. ‘Mature’ travelers, read retirees, will be most drastically impacted. Older folk were becoming serious travelers over the past few years. Many retirees, having taken care of other family responsibilities, were finally picking the many offerings of Thomas Cook, Kesari Tours and their ilk and heading out to Andamans and Coorg at one end or choosing to do Exotic Europe in 14 days. Their new found liberation may get heavily tempered by the fear that older humans are more susceptible to the virus. So, better to stay home for now.
11. Tourism may look inwards, be more domestic directed. Thankfully, traditional domestic travel cover iphone x brand, FORD SYMBOLE METAL cover iPhone X / XS destinations like Himachal, Ladakh, Goa, Uttarkhand, Andamans, even Pondicherry have remained largely inert to the virus. So much of the honeymoon and holiday traffic may stay within India. Which is surely a silver lining in another wise gloomy scenario. Unfortunately, Kerala and the Golden Triangle of Delhi/Agra/Jaipur are pretty badly impacted. But in a disaster situation, as they say, whatever gets saved from the inferno is a bonus.
12. Destination weddings may suffer a serious setback. The cover iphone x crystal, I LOVE MY JEEP cover iPhone X / XS Virushka wedding took place just a little over four hours south of Milan, in a historic property called Borgo Finocchieto in Tuscany, South Italy. Deepveer were wedded at the picturesque Villa del Balbianello in Lake Como, Italy. cover iphone x montblanc, FENDI95EYES MONSTER 2 cover iPhone X / XS Not just celebrities, upper middle India was increasingly getting married in Hua Hin, Koh Samui and Krabi in Thailand800 weddings in 2019 alone in Siamwhile the rich were headed to Marrakesh, Stellenbosch, Seychelles, Cinigiano and the likes of Soufriere in St. Lucia. Well, much of this euphoria is likely to ebb. That’s good news though for Udaipur (much of Rajasthan actually), Goa, Kerala and the likes of Neemrana and Ananda in the Hills…
