Question

You are Vikram residing in Chennai, your brother is staying with his aunt in Mumbai, the recent pandemic has made travel and communication hard. Write a letter to keep his spirits high, not to get depressed and advise him to deal with an optimistic mindset. Write an informal letter.

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Explanation:

It is important to note that global tourism has been exposed to a wide range of crises in the past (Figure 1). Between 2000 and 2015, major disruptive events include the September 11 terrorist attacks (2001), the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak (2003), the global economic crisis unfolding in 2008/2009, and the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak. None of them led to a longer-term decline in the global development of tourism, and some of them are not even notable in Figure 1, with only SARS (-0.4%) and the global economic crisis (-4.0%) leading to declines in international arrivals (World Bank 2020a, 2020b). This would suggest that tourism as a system has been resilient to external shocks. However, there is much evidence that the impact and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will be unprecedented.

The relationships between pandemics and travel are central to understanding health security and global change (Burkle, 2006). Although tourism research has developed at least a cursory realization of the potential systemic effects of global climate change, there has not been the same appreciation of the systemic effects of pandemics, with studies tending to focus on individual country impacts, rather than the system level challenges and vulnerability. Several studies have demonstrated the important role of air travel in accelerating and amplifying propagating influenza and coronaviruses (see Brown et al., 2016 for a review). However, to an extent the rise and fall of academic interest in the relationship between tourism and pandemics is reflective of that of the wider industry and also governments, given that tourism has been affected by disease outbreaks numerous times since the turn of the millennium.