An international conference for tourism institutions and authorities in the world started with the speech of the Portuguese Minister of Tourism. The minister talked about the need for global solidarity to confront the epidemic with strategies to save the tourism and travel sectors in the countries of the world. He stressed the need to come up with real and serious action plans to face the challenges of the Corona epidemic and restore freedom of movement and travel, Al Anbaa reported.
The conference was held on the 16th and 17th of this month to discuss the challenges of the tourism industry and the travel sector in the world in the face of the Corona epidemic.
Strategies for reviving tourism
In his opening speech, which came at a press conference, the CEO of the World Travel Forum, Frederic van Howete, pointed to the importance of the conference and the need for international cooperation between the countries of the world to put strategies into practice and implementation in the face of the Corona epidemic and reviving the tourism sector in the world from a different perspective.
For his part, the Forum’s Secretary-General, Christian Dilum, stressed that the time has come for action, not just talk, and that the forum should come up with real action plans that revive the tourism sector in the world and with an international will.
The necessity of accelerating vaccinations
The Jamaican Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, spoke of a series of obstacles that affected the travel sector and thus tourism, starting with the terrorist events of September 2001, then the SARS epidemic, and ending with the most dangerous epidemic that created a qualitative and different situation in the travel sectors worldwide.
Bartlett pointed out the impact of the epidemic in numbers on the economic sectors in the countries of the world, and that it is necessary to recover globally in parallel with health recovery plans, pointing to the importance of vaccination and the importance of plans to reach the vaccine. The Jamaican minister considered that the vaccine and access to it is a vital necessity for the world to successfully exit the epidemic crisis.
The Global Center for Crisis Management, Dr. Talib Al-Rifai, stressed the need for global solidarity among governments to get out of the global epidemic crisis, stressing that the move must be immediate and urgent to come up with global strategies and solutions in the face of the epidemic, and develop plans to facilitate travel while maintaining health safety.
For his part, Luis Aragio, President of the Portuguese Tourism Authority, stressed, in his short and intense speech, the need to change the structure of the tourism industry sector and pay attention to the sector with its most effective human resources, specifically the sector’s infrastructure from workers at the bottom of the industry pyramid, especially in logistics.