486 - Special Episode: Public Health In the Field—Did COVID Change Tourism for Good?
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19 sent shock waves through the tourism industry, shutting down the economic engine of many popular destinations. But for some residents and tourism workers, it also brought a welcome break from swelling crowds and a rare chance to slow down and rethink their priorities. In a special episode, Lindsay Smith Rogers and Annalies Winny take a virtual tour to Aruba, Jamaica, Hawaii, and Senegal to learn how popular destinations have weighed economic stability against the risks of COVID outbreaks—and how they're rethinking some longstanding environmental and economic issues around tourism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, listeners. I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. And I'm |
| 0:10.3 | Annalise Winnie, a journalist and editor for Global Health Now. At the beginning of the pandemic, |
| 0:15.1 | there was a subset of people who saw the opportunity of remote work and cheap airline |
| 0:19.3 | tickets to explore places they always |
| 0:20.9 | wanted to go. |
| 0:22.2 | But this also meant that many destinations that rely on tourism dollars had to weigh economic |
| 0:26.9 | stability against the risk of COVID outbreaks from tourists bringing SARS COVID-2 from home. |
| 0:32.3 | Tourist destinations like Aruba, Jamaica, Hawaii, and Senegal may not have had the resources or infrastructure to care for an |
| 0:39.4 | influx of COVID patients. And now that more people are vaccinated, are these areas eager to welcome |
| 0:45.3 | back tourists? After a seismic shift from the pandemic, how are some of the world's most |
| 0:50.5 | popular destinations looking at tourism differently? In this special episode of public health in the field, we're taking a virtual tour through |
| 0:58.0 | a few tourism hubs to find out. |
| 0:59.8 | First stop, Aruba. |
| 1:01.0 | Aruba, Jamaica. |
| 1:03.8 | Ooh, I want to take you, Vermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama, Kilargo, Montego, baby, why don't we go to Jamaica off the Florida |
| 1:15.9 | Key? |
| 1:17.1 | Aruba is an island about 430 miles south of the Dominican Republic. It's one of the ABC Islands, |
| 1:23.4 | along with Bonaire and Curacao in the the Caribbean Sea and is an autonomous country in the |
| 1:28.0 | Kingdom of the Netherlands. At just 21 miles long and six miles wide, Aruba is home to around |
| 1:34.1 | 110,000 people. The primary industry is tourism, and every year prior to the pandemic, |
| 1:41.1 | this tiny tropical island welcomed nearly two million visitors. |
| 1:45.8 | But in 2020, the island closed its borders to all non-residents and did not reopen for several |
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