This video from the Economist explains the massive impact that COVID-19 is having on the travel industry worldwide. What will happen in the long-term?
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business is now starting to pick up
to exacerbate existing inequalities
to create economic hardship
to postpone/cancel all non-essential travel
to climb back to pre-crisis levels
to make it through the pandemic
to impose some form of travel restriction
to create an inequitable/unfair/uneven system
to have a knock-on effect on something
to accelerate the shift towards efficiency
quandary
reciprocity
Let’s check the main ideas!
- Is traveling harder now?
It’s slowly going back to normal, but some aspects of traveling are still a bit more difficult than they were in February.
- How big is the travel industry?
It’s enormous. Every year international holiday makers spend 1.6 trn dollars on bookings.
- What areas of travel might never recover?
One of the examples is business travel. Studies show that they never tend to go back to a pre-crisis level.
I think that…
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- Do you think the story is exaggerating how bad the future of travel will be?
- Do you think that all of the airlines will go out of business?
- Do you think that the sales will bounce back as soon as the COVID pandemic is under control?
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