Even though the anti-COVID-19 vaccine has raised hopes that tourism, amongst different sectors, will likely be introduced again to the pre-pandemic situation quickly, the CEO of the Icelandic Travel Business Affiliation, Jóhannes Þór Skúlason, has emphasized that “it is going to seemingly take three to four years to regain the steadiness” that Icelandic Tourism has had.
According to him, this December is a gradual one, compared to the final yr, whereas he believes that the next yr will likely be higher,
As for the next summertime, the CEO of the Icelandic Travel Business Affiliation has emphasized that a number of components ought to be taken into consideration whereas speaking about subsequent summertime, together with the reopening of Schengen borders earlier than the summer.
“I’ve been looking on the projections, our personal, those in Icelandair’s renaissance plan, and those made by the Central Financial institution of Iceland, which supposes that 750,000-950,000 tourists may come to Iceland in 2021,” he careworn.
Nonetheless, Jóhannes Þór Skúlason stated that the present situation pushed individuals to look on the web for more journey choices.
He was careworn that as of late, it’s not just a query of being permitted to travel overseas once more, but in addition to being able to afford traveling. He stated that the economic results of the Coronavirus pandemic would hit a lot of persons who as a result of unemployment, are much less prone to travel.
In November, authorities in Iceland introduced that they’d delay the launched border measures, imposed to stop the additional spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the announcement, Iceland will keep in place its border measures until February 1, 2021.
Last month, Iceland’s Health Ministry also revealed that the nation would offer free of charge COVID-19 checks for travelers, from December 1 until January 31.
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) previously estimated {that a} complete of 174 million persons worldwide risk losing their jobs until the end of this year if nations resolve to keep in place their travel restrictions.
Based mostly on WTTC’s calculations revealed in August, European nations might be profoundly impacted by the shortage of travelers attributable to the Coronavirus situation.
France is predicted to lose greater than €48 billion, Spain might lose €40 billion, Germany nearly €38 billion, and the UK dangers shedding £22 billion.
