PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES

• Understanding the concept and need of Inclusive Growth

• Understanding Tourism for Inclusive Growth
• Disruption to Tourism Industry by COVID-19
• Learning the Efforts for Restoration of Tourism
• Way Out of Crisis
INCLUSIVE GROWTH
• Inclusive growth is economic growth that is distributed
fairly across society and creates opportunities for all.
• Inequality puts our world at risk
• Giving everyone a stake in growth
• Investing in people and places
• Preparing for the future
• Build trust
Opening Statements
• To counter the rapid global spread of COVID-19 in early 2020, most
governments took the decision to close their international borders to
all but essential travel, as well as implement regional and local
lockdowns.
• Since Then Travel & Tourism is facing unprecedented challenges and
an existential threat from the impact of the COVID-19 virus globally.
• Travel & Tourism sector experienced 3.5% growth in 2019, outpacing
that of the global economy (2.5%) for the ninth consecutive year.
• However, with the COVID-19 crisis we are in uncharted territory; our
sector is uniquely exposed.
 Cont….
• This, however, left many travellers and workers stranded overseas and
the Travel & Tourism sector in a perilous situation. The return of
international mobility is crucial
• Governments that have implemented practical policies to aid this;
from funding the repatriation of nationals and rolling out vaccinations
swiftly, to encouraging leisure travellers to return with visa facilitation,
complementary COVID-19 insurance, and less stringent border entry
conditions.
WHY TOURISM IS WAY-OUT FOR
INCLUSIVE GROWTH?
• By its very nature Travel & Tourism is labour intensive.
• Many of the jobs it offers are all about working with people; they’re
often low skilled so they are ideal for less developed countries where
lack of formal education holds many people back. 
• Take the example of hotel sector. It provides on average one
employee per room. Add on people indirectly employed too like
guides, drivers, gardeners and laundry staff and that number rises to
four. And around half of all employees in the hotel, catering and
hospitality sector are under 25.
 Cont…
• In both developed and less developed economies, Travel & Tourism
typically employs a far higher proportion of women than other
sectors. Women make up over 60% of the labour force in the hotel
sector. Not only are more women employed in tourism, they have
more opportunity for advancement.

• But there’s undoubtedly more that we can do:

Inclusiveness leads to Keep more tourist
spend in destination

• It’s not just the size of the pie, it’s the share of it. This problem is
often called Tourism Leakage. Estimates for Tourism Leakage range
from 80% in the Caribbean to 40% in India. Governments and the
industry need to work together to ensure ever larger proportions of
the benefits from tourism trickle down to the local populations. A
number of big brand hotel chains now pursue policies of buying local.
Spread the benefits further
• It’s not just employment opportunities and income that the sector
can offer. Often better quality infrastructure has to be built to support
the industry and the local population benefits too from improved
roads and water supplies, internet access and waste disposal. But
many Governments are going further, realising that the benefits of
tourism need to be felt by everyone in the local community. 
Develop resilience (important in current
scenario)

• Whilst Travel & Tourism can offer a relatively speedy development

trajectory, it’s also susceptible to its own unique challenges.
Particular problems include outbreaks of disease, freak weather
events and terrorism, all of which can prompt swift declines in the
numbers of tourist arrivals. This is particularly problematic for
countries whose economies rely very heavily on tourism.
Inclusive Efforts for Restoration of
Tourism
• The European Commission has took lead and in May 2020, EU
countries agreed on a framework to decide what the level of
restrictions should be when entering certain EU countries or arriving
from third countries.
• In 2021, the EU took the lead in rebooting the sector with the launch
of its Digital COVID Certificate (DCC). This is the first global example of
where so many countries have collaborated to produce a system for
verifying COVID-19 status that is common and fully interoperable
across all those countries.
 Cont…

• The free DCC is digital proof that a person has either been fully
vaccinated against COVID-19, has received a negative COVID-19 test
result or has recovered from the disease.
• The rapid rollout of the DCC was helped by close partnership with key
stakeholders such as airline and airport operators. Since 1 July 2021,
EU citizens and residents have been able to receive their DCC and
have it verified across all EU Member States. They should then be
exempted from testing or restrictions on free movement.
RISK MANAGEMENT APPROACH FOR
INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS
• Since Greece reopened its international borders for leisure travel following the first
wave of COVID-19 by using of a risk-based border management policy that includes
looking at the risk an individual poses, rather than imposing sweeping restrictive
conditions of entry on all travellers from a country.
• On 15 June 2020, Greece reopened its borders to leisure tourism from other of the
first European countries to permit international leisure travel again

• When COVID-19 case rates grew in countries such as Belgium and Spain in August
2020, Greece began requiring the negative result of a PCR test taken up to 72 hours
before departure rather than imposing an outright ban or a quarantine.
• After the Europe-wide lockdown and suspension of most cross-border flights in early
2021, Greece was one who reinstated air travel.
SUPPORTING TRAVELLERS WITH
COVID-19 COSTS

• The governments and tourism boards in several of Spain’s

principal tourism regions introduced measures to restore
confidence in travellers and encourage them to book a visit
as restrictions ease. In one instance, they have given
consumers peace of mind with the offer of free COVID-19
insurance during their stay.
VACCINATION ROLLOUTS
• Countries that can efficiently and quickly fully vaccinate the majority of
their population against COVID-19 are also more likely to return to
domestic and international mobility sooner. Israel has led the world in
terms of its rollout of immunisations (per share of population) since
December 2020.
• By 7 February 2021, 40% of the population had received at least one
dose. The country with the next highest figure on that date, the UK, had
only immunised 18% of its population. As of 2 June 2021, 63% of Israel’s
population had received at least one dose.
• The government was also efficient in becoming one of the first countries
to produce a digital Green Pass
VISA FACILITATION
• Egyptian government was amongst first to permit the resumption of
inbound tourism to Egypt from 1 July 2020.
• This policy was then extended until 30 April 2021. In July 2021, the
government further expanded visa facilitation policy, enabling
nationals from 28 additional countries to get their Egyptian tourist
visa electronically. In total, 74 nationalities are able to receive an e-
visa online This followed the announcement in June of another travel
facilitation policy, whereby fully vaccinated visitors from some
countries with lower COVID-19 case rates can enter Egypt without
having to take a PCR test.
Major Challenges with Workforce in
Tourism
• WORKER PROTECTION
• TRAINING AND RE-SKILLING
• SUPPORTING DESTINATION MANAGEMENT ORGANISATIONS
• LIQUIDITY SUPPORT FOR AVIATION AND AIRPORTS
• SPECIAL TAX & PUBLIC FEE EXEMPTIONS AND DEFERMENTS FOR
TOURISM
OPPORTUNITIES
• PROMOTING DOMESTIC TRAVEL
• FAVOURABLE CREDIT LINES FOR TOURISM
• INCENTIVISING TRAVEL
• DIVERSIFICATION AND INNOVATION
• HEALTH & HYGIENE INTEGRATION
• COMMUNICATION
• SKILLS & TRAINING
• SEGMENTING THE MARKETS IN VIEW OF COVID-19
• CROWD MANAGEMENT AND THE DISPERSION OF TOURISTS
• CONTACTLESS EXPERIENCES
• URBAN AND RURAL INTERNET CONNECTIVITY
 Cont…
• MEDICAL TOURISM
• WELLNESS TOURISM
• SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
• BUSINESS TRAVEL
• NATURE & WILDLIFE
• ADVENTURE TOURISM
• CULTURAL TOURISM
• TARGETED TOURISM
LOOKING AHEAD
• Travel & Tourism has been one of the sector’s most negatively
affected globally due to COVID-19, suffering devastating losses in
terms of both GDP and jobs. To achieve recovery and continue
spreading socio-economic benefits, the sector will require investment
which needs to be supported by an effective enabling environment.
As the sector looks forward, public-private community partnerships
(PPCP) will be essential to ensure that sustainability and inclusion are
at the heart of investment decisions and future growth.
The way-out for achieving this suggestion
is….

• Tourism for Inclusive Growth by following Sustainable

Tourism Development Goals.