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Global


It’s not just the UK travel industry that’s in crisis. Tourism businesses globally are suffering a near-total co sector around the world are at risk. Here,Katie McGonagle speaks to six tour leaders, accommodation


ANDREW O’BRIEN, 48 owner of Cobra Tours & Yacht Services, and Indian River Tours, Dominica


JOHANI MAMID, 36 owner of Mabu Buru Tours in Broome, Western Australia


“I was a ranger on my family’s tribal land for four years but I took a leap from that into two part-time jobs. For the past year, I’ve been conducting my own tours, and in March, I started at Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park as a tour guide. “I decided at the start of this year to


put everything into my business and ramp it up. I had big expectations for financial development, and that’s all stopped, but I still have insurance and a vehicle that I have to pay for. “At the wildlife park I was only just


being signed up, so I’m not eligible for [a government furlough scheme], which means I can’t stay on as an employee but I’m working as a volunteer. “I have created a YouTube channel


to make videos of Yawuru lifestyle and activities, to show my guests what I’m talking about on tours. I’m hoping that could be an additional revenue stream, because it seems you can’t rely on tourism all the time.”


“We offer yacht services and island tours, and are the main provider of tours of Indian River [a Pirates of the Caribbean filming location] for cruise lines including Princess Cruises, Star Clippers, Carnival and Holland America Line. “By the end of February, no cruise


lines were coming to the Indian River, and a lot of our yacht bookings started being cancelled. This came just as the season was climbing to its peak, so we have had the hardest blow. “It’s been rough. We’ve had to lay off


our [nine] staff because we don’t have any money coming in. For Dominica and the Caribbean, tourism is our main industry. There are 30 to 40 tour guides in Prince Rupert Bay, plus the restaurants, bus and taxi drivers, hotels – and it branches out to their families, to the people they would employ in their garden or farm. We say in Dominica, ‘tourism is everybody’s business’.”


DR NATHANIEL DUNIGAN, 46 chief executive of AidChild Leadership Institute, a Planeterra- supported enterprise helping people with HIV & Aids in Uganda


“In 2002, we started our first business, an art gallery and cafe, right on the equator line in Uganda and it brought electricity and water to the village. Now, on a typical day, we get 80-90 people here, including G Adventures groups. “We had several days of zero customers,


zero dollars, which made it pretty obvious what we had to do. The sad part is there’s nothing else for people to make money from in that location, other than tourism. “We haven’t laid anyone off yet. We


actually paid three days early so our staff could keep going, thanks to Planeterra’s support. But this is not sustainable – it’s costing us money from other budgets just to keep going. We have 11 full-time employees, but there are a lot of other people depending on this; we have 15 artists, other vendors, coffee producers. “This was all created to be sustainable, and now it’s quite the opposite.”


14 7 MAY 2020 travelweekly.co.uk


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