Tough restrictions on entry of tourists, a partial shutdown and preparations for a third coronavirus wave, has sent a shiver down the spine of the tourism industry in Goa.
Another bleak season will leave it gasping and although many would like to go back to the ‘old normal’ when tourists flocked in very large numbers, all that seems very uncertain now.
Globally mass tourism has been changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Goa can hardly hope to set itself apart and continue receiving tourists in droves without consequences. Vaccination is not enough because tourists arrive from all over. . .
