Life after closing: Will Corleone change the way tourism does it forever?

That was after Italy had begun its closure in the northern province of Lombardy, but a few days before quarantine throughout France, Spain, and Nordic states.

In those early days of the explosion, with COVIED-19 limited mainly in China, the group was not worried much, writes EuronewsHe's following in on Telegrafie.

Some were joking about what we dared to be, traveling at this time”, Ben-Am said.

But this would be the last tournament Ben-Am would offer before borders around the world would be closed.

And within a few days, like 66 million others in France, the tour guide, 43-year-old shut down at his house in Luberon, Provence, and even forbidden to walk more than a mile from his front door.

Coronavirus' influence on the travel industry has already been severe: half of the world's population is under deadlock, while the number of flights worldwide has dropped from around 200,000 on 21 February to 64,000 on 31 March, according to the FlightRadar 24.

According to the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), 96 percent of the world's destinations are currently influenced by travel restrictions and other blocking measures.

“Bota is really in bad shape”, Euronews director told UNWTO communications, Marcelo Reese.

UNWTO has warned that <x0 tourist temperature” worldwide could drop by 30 percent in 2020.

While European Union Interior Market Commissioner Thierry Breton estimates that the tourism economy in the EU could drop by 70 per cent and that it should be in the first place to provide recovery funds.

Across the continent, tourism accounts for up to 27 million jobs, and the industry created 400 billion euros last year alone, Riesi said. UNWTO.

In an interview at “Euronews Now”, he urged governments to take strong monetary and fiscal measures to support his sector and workers.

We're talking about millions of jobs. This is not something to be ignored. Social influence and development if we go beyond Europe and look at so many countries in the world that have tourism as a life of salvation can be huge”, he warned.

By contrast, France alone had 89.4 million foreign visitors in 2018, and tourism makes up 8 percent of BPV.

The government estimates that two million people are working directly or indirectly in the travel industry, and many of those people, including Ben-Am, are now unemployed.

He and his wife qualified and applied for help from the French state.

This is the first time I ever asked the state for support in my life, but there was no other solution”, he said.

But Britain has also been hit hard by the decline of tourists since the early COVID-19 epidemic.

Places like the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abkey are almost empty.

As an accredited guide of “Blue Badge”, Roberto Di Gioacchino would usually be in those places this week, leading tourists from around the world, but not only that his clients have canceled their bookings as far as July, even August does not seem very hopeful.

And Di Gioacchino is not in London right now.

On March 11th, he seized one of the last flights to Teramo, Italy, where he is taking care of his 92-year-old mother in the town of Alba Adriatica.

As an Italian, he says, he values the need for an impasse in the United Kingdom even if it comes at the expense of his business.

When it started, I heard that many people were dissatisfied with it. People said the government shouldn't shut down everything. But being Italian and being stuck here in Italy, I understand how difficult the” situation is, he said.

Being in the company of his mother, who lived during World War II, has also given a perspective on the crisis, which she tells her is unprecedented in her life.

My mother lived during the war and said that even when they had nothing, they could still come out and breathe. Now we are afraid to go out and touch people. This is something she never expected to see in her life”, he said.

But Di Gioacchino is convinced that when the coronavirus pandemic calms down, travelers will return.