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COVID, BORDER CLOSURES AND TRAVEL… TWO YEARS ON! ✦ Mark Ennor, BookItDoit
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o here we are, two years since the announcement of a potential pandemic, a fast-spreading virus that will ravage, stop and change our world and it did forever!
As a society, we contend and deal with many ups and downs in our lives, the downs especially being the likes of floods, drought, fires, storms, and in a country like Australia we get the lot! We always bounce back but the timeframe to do so of course depends on the severity of the disaster. These natural disasters normally take anywhere from weeks to months to recover from (longer of course for the worst hit!).
The COVID 19 Corona Virus has been a disaster on another scale for the whole world to deal with. This is not the time or place to be getting into its origins, the conspiracies or the vax debates. The bottom line is, we’ve had a disaster thrown at us like never before and something of this scale will have long lasting effects, from the physical, emotional, mental, financial and social. The Tourism and Travel industries are ones that bear the brunt of all of these factors. There are many conversations always happening about how and when it will all bounce back. My take on it is that no one can really say exactly when and how it will.
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Camel Rides at Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia
