Months almost at a standstill, and still no prospect of recovery.
Tour operators are going through the worst ordeal in their history.
Because of the Covid, global tourism has frozen for almost a year, depriving them of activity.
They are, however, familiar with upheavals: between climatic hazards, geopolitical tensions and the emergence of new competitors on the internet, tour operators have been losing customers for years.
Because of low-cost airlines, destinations have escaped them: who needs a tour operator to go to Barcelona?
The Maghreb, one of their flagship destinations, has still not recovered to its pre-Arab Spring levels.
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But, for the first time, the violence of the pandemic exposed the weaknesses of their economic model.
“Tour operators are in survival mode,”
says Didier Arino, director of the Protourisme cabinet.
Everyone is bad, young and old alike.
Caught between a consumer who directly books his stays, a drop
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