The tourism industry across the world has taken a big hit, due to Covid-19. Hotels, zoos, museums, tourist guides, local vendors. restaurants, etc are impacted big time. 

With international travel not opening up for a while, a great opportunity to promote domestic tourism. 

Build confidence:

Campaigns to show what the Tourism Departments are doing to ensure hygiene.
Promote it on social media.

Create a Travel Bubble

Creating a travel bubble involves reconnecting countries or states that have shown a good level of success in containing the novel coronavirus pandemic domestically. 

Such a bubble would allow the members of the group to rekindle trade ties with each other, and kickstart sectors such as travel and tourism.

Start promoting local culture through stories

Driving Tours
Since tourists may yet be hesitant to use public transportation to travel, promoting driving tours would be of a big interest for a lot of them. 

Need to curate driving tours.

Camping

Camping tours, hiring of campervans – is gaining popularity and this is a great time to promote it.
Promote barbecues, etc

Rural Tourism

Big opportunity to promote tourism in rural areas and a lot more satisfying holiday.
Fantastic way to learn our culture, provide opportunities in rural areas for employment.

Upskill Tourist Guides/virtual tours

Tourist guides engage with tourists virtually. And can generate income through donations from the visitors

Train them on storytelling, etc

Promote different themes

Food tours, wine tours, etc

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Curate beautiful home stays

Pilot, learn & scale
Identify a few destinations -> improve infrastructure -> promote -> learn -> scale

Collaborate (PPP model)

Public private partnership for content, promotions, guides, training, volunteers, etc.

A lot of companies/startups have the required information. Need to bring them all together.