Day Trippin’: Tourism Sector Driving to Comeback
July 28, 2020
By Mark R. Smith, Contributing Writer
Andy Levine uses a line that you may have heard to illustrate today’s landscape in the tourism industry.
“The industry has been decimated by COVID-19,” said Levine, chairman of Development Counsellors International (DCI), in New York City, who quoted boxer-turned-comedian Mike Tyson’s take on how the world can change in the blink of an eye − or from a quick left jab.
“Everybody has a plan,” he said, “until they get punched in the mouth. And the tourism industry has been punched in the mo...
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