OVER the past year and a half, the Covid-19 pandemic has turned our lives upside down. We have lost colleagues, friends and family. Our routines have been unsettled. Life is just no longer what we were used to. On the business side of things, supply chains have been disrupted and, in some instances, entire businesses have folded.
The carnage has been particularly gory in the tourism and hospitality sector, which, according to the government, lost northwards of 90 percent of potential revenues in 2020, as governments-imposed lockdowns and restricted travel.
In normal times, the tourism industry generates at least US$1,25 billion making it one of the country’s top foreign currency earners.
The lockdowns might have been lifted and business opened up (below full capacity), but it is certainly going to take some time for us to genuinely fathom the sheer extent of damage the pandemic has
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