Is Tourism in Africa Dead 2020 review

[EddyBBC]

Hello. I guess the title explains this in regards to the covid 19 pandemic and the decline in air travel to Africa.
What do you guys think? Will it come back or this is the end?

I'm from Kenya and a lot of people are feeling the effects of No-Tourism.
Many hotels and coastal towns are closed if not dead already.

Let me know your views.
Thanks.

 

[Archie457]

I think that once one or more vaccines become available and/or we actually achieve what they are calling "herd immunity", then tourism will return. We have to get to the point where people take the risk of contracting just like some other infectious disease like the flu or a cold.

Two trepidations.

One, it is not at all clear to me that vaccines and immunities will suffice. There is some indication of reinfection, perhaps by different strains, perhaps not. We really need need better information on that. Perhaps we can get that once we get past the focus on producing a vaccine.

Two, totalitarian and dictatorial political leaders might keep everyone locked down so long that the tourism industry just closes down almost completely. Here in the US, we are already losing a LOT of our restaurants, for example. It might take years to rebuild all that if they kill it off thoroughly enough.

 

[EddyBBC]

I'll be back but not until it settles abit mid late 2021
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Glad to hear that Fi.
Looking forward to it too xx

 

[EddyBBC]

I think that once one or more vaccines become available and/or we actually achieve what they are calling "herd immunity", then tourism will return. We have to get to the point where people take the risk of contracting just like some other infectious disease like the flu or a cold.

Two trepidations.

One, it is not at all clear to me that vaccines and immunities will suffice. There is some indication of reinfection, perhaps by different strains, perhaps not. We really need need better information on that. Perhaps we can get that once we get past the focus on producing a vaccine.

Two, totalitarian and dictatorial political leaders might keep everyone locked down so long that the tourism industry just closes down almost completely. Here in the US, we are already losing a LOT of our restaurants, for example. It might take years to rebuild all that if they kill it off thoroughly enough.

Both choices suck. It's bad enough in the US and European nations. It's worse in African countries. But I hope all will be well