The ‘HEALTH CRISIS’ Replaces

The ‘’health crisis’’ has changed everything and indeed, the way we think of travel and our usual vacation.

If you are able to view a holiday as just a change of scene giving you the rest you need from your usual daily routine, then you might be able to take a holiday in a different way.

This is a new thinking based on psycho-geography. Many of us have been forced to look at domestic tourism over the previous year. The idea being that exploring in depth your home town, doing what tourists normally do in your town, will allow you to look at it differently and to achieve the relaxed frame of mind any further away holiday would do.

Even people living on an island can take a domestic tourism holiday by travelling to the opposite side to the island and staying in different accommodation; it's a different space, a different daily routine, a different view.

Virtual travel will allow you to not even leave your front door! Ever wanted to visit the Eiffel Tower or the Leaning Tower of Pisa. With virtual tours being so life-like you can connect to the destination in a new way.

Psychogeography - teaches us to re-perceive our local environment, which many of us see day in day out. Just walking and wandering the streets, psychogeography encourages people to interact with the physical, and in some cases with the digital space, by drifting through space both physically and mentally. In practical terms, this means that you follow the course of the landscape in which you are, for no particular purpose.

TOKYO'S IMPERIAL HOTEL NEW MAIN BUILDING DESIGN

Located in the centre of Tokyo, the Imperial Hotel has unveiled the new design for its aging exterior main building, which is scheduled to be rebuilt by 2036.

The new design by Paris-based Japanese architect Tsuyoshi Tane, based on a fusion between a Western palace and a tower, invokes the image of a staircase, with floor space narrowing with height.

The design will have a ‘jewel of the Orient’ concept. The hotel was established in 1890 as a state guest house. The main building has since been redone 3 times with the current exterior being built in 1970. The main building is to begin construction in 2031 after the completion of the adjacent tower's reconstruction in 2030.

IRAN TOURISM FOCUSES ON QATAR WORLD CUP TO ATTRACT MORE HOLIDAYMAKERS

With the 2022 World Cup being held in neighbouring Qatar, Iran has the perfect opportunity to promote its unique tourism products to visitors to the event.

Increasing the number of flights between Iran and Qatar during the event, which will be held from 21 November to 18 December 2022, as well as showcasing and introducing the distinctive tourist attractions of the country to the spectators at this event are on the agenda of the Iranian Tourism Ministry. The issuing of tourist visas will be stepped up to help attract more tourists across the border.

Before the pandemic, Iran was developing its tourism sector well and beginning to attract high class visitors to see its stunning architecture and sites. Before the pandemic, revenues reached UK£8.16 billion in 2019, accounting for 2.8% of GDP and the country welcomed 8.7 million foreign nationals. Iran was ranked as the 2nd fastest-growing country in tourism according to the WTO.

Dasht-e Lut desert, Iran