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The tourism industry is facing new uncertainties, demanding situations and opportunities. GTRCMC and WTN are among the first in the global tourism industry to take the microphone. They have a pressing message for tourism leaders around the world.
The president of the World Tourism Network, Dr. Peter Tarlow, published those reflections on the war between Russia and Ukraine and the world of tourism.
In addition, today, speaking on behalf of the Global Centre for Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management (GTRCMC), the Honourable Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism of Jamaica, and Dr. Taleb Rifai, former UNWTO Secretary-General, today suggested to tourism leaders that they monitor the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, as this occasion will have an effect on the global tourism industry amid the global pandemic.
“It is that tourism leaders around the world monitor the escalation of activities between Russia and Ukraine to prepare for the spillover effects. This is even more imperative right now, as the world is still in a pandemic that has already affected the tourism industry. “.
“Resilience will have to be an indispensable service in the development of plans and operational infrastructure of all destinations dependent on tourism,” said the Honourable Edmund Bartlett.
“It is global events that have the greatest chance of causing disruption and displacement and why the resilience and resilience of construction are so important,” added Dr. Rifai, who is also the sponsor of the Global Tourism Network.
Bartlett and Rifai are co-chairs of the GTRMC.
“Global Tourism Netpaintings is in a position to work with the Global Centre for Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management, as this centre was created for this reason, to help tourism-dependent destinations not only mitigate such disruptions, but also them. ” said President and CEO. founder Juergen Steinmetz.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022, early in the morning, Ukraine time, the world has changed, adding the world and tourism.
The president of the World Tourism Network, Dr. Peter Tarlow, points out that this article is not intended to be a military or political investigation of events as they unfold, but rather the aim of this article is to read about the effect. about the Russian invasion and the war against travel and tourism around the world. industry.
It should be emphasized that at the time of writing, there is a giant amount of data that is not known or that is very vulnerable to changes.
Thus, the statements are made on the basis of the maximum data and recent knowledge that we have at the time of writing this article. Finally, in a world of high political sensitivity, the objective of this article is not to blame but to read about the demanding situations presented by the existing scenario for the tourism industry.
It is in this context that the tourism industry will now have to climb an additional wrinkle to the world of; the first primary war in Europe since the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
The Balkan wars, however, were different in the sense that they did not involve nuclear powers and the conflagration was limited to one region of Europe.
It is still too early to know that the Ukraine crisis will be limited to a localized domain of Europe or will metastasize and thus involve NATO countries.
If the latter were to occur with the expansion of the war to the Balkan states, Poland and Germany, its effect would be felt throughout Europe and such a conflagration would involve several nuclear-weapon states.
The possibility of a miscalculation will increase exponentially. As such, this confrontation has the possibility of moving from a localized confrontation to a war on a European or even global scale.
Again, keep in mind that in this writing, the problems in question are speculations. The stage continues to spread and replace itself almost from hour to hour.
Let’s try to use the tourism industry as a way to bring other people together and show the world that tourism is a tool for peace.
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