Hotel designers need to obsess less about covid, there are bigger issues to solve

By Stéphanie Ledoux and Reda Amalou 2021-01-06T06:00:00

Eventually tourism will bounce back, and when it does we have a duty to make sure it is sustainable

For reasons which will be obvious to all, 2020 saw a sharp decline across the worldwide tourism industry. Travel restrictions designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus effectively stopped the movement of international visitors overnight, and it will come as little surprise to see figures from the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) show global tourist numbers fell 65% in the first half of last year.

It’s a depressing statistic. But devastating as it has been, the pandemic is still a temporary problem for the hotel sector, one that will hopefully be solved by the global rollout of vaccines.

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