Summary
Global tourism has lost trillions of dollars during the pandemic, leaving communities who rely on the sector desperate. Now that parts of the world are slowly starting to open up again, Business Weekly asks whether travel can be done safely and sustainably in a pandemic. We hear from an intimacy co-ordinator whose job it is to ensure actors feel comfortable with their sex scenes. She tells us why having someone in their role is vital in the post #metoo era. And menopause has been called the last workplace taboo as women all over the globe drop out of the workforce as they struggle with symptoms. Should businesses give them more support and, if so, in what form should that be? Plus, should we think about trading with aliens? The Pentagon hasn’t ruled out the existence of extra-terrestrials and some people are already thinking about what we could sell them! Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and a warm welcome to Business Weekly with Lucy Burton. Today on the show we'll be |
| 0:10.6 | discussing what some have called the final workplace taboo, the menopause. Women across the world |
| 0:16.7 | are leaving their jobs because they're unsupported in the workplace. What can be done to keep them |
| 0:22.1 | in employment? And if you told your friends a few years ago that you believed in aliens, |
| 0:27.6 | you might have got some funny looks. But a new report from the US Pentagon hasn't ruled out their existence. |
| 0:41.4 | So UFO sporting is all the rage again. |
| 0:44.3 | But some people are taking it one step further |
| 0:46.4 | and thinking about how we could trade with our extraterrestrial cousins. |
| 0:51.3 | But before we consider space travel, let's stay closer to home. The United Nations says |
| 0:57.5 | the pandemic is taking trillions of dollars away from the global tourism industry. Although |
| 1:03.1 | parts of the world are starting to open up again, the numbers are nowhere near where they |
| 1:07.8 | were before COVID started its march across the world. |
| 1:11.6 | In a report published this week, the United Nations World Tourism Organization |
| 1:15.3 | forecast that international arrivals will be between 63% and 73% lowered this year than before the pandemic. |
| 1:23.7 | My colleague Rob Young spoke to Zerita Urososovic, the UN's special representative for tourism. |
| 1:29.1 | International tourism is back to levels of 30 years ago. |
| 1:33.2 | It's like we are in 1990. |
| 1:36.7 | And we have lost last year minus 74% of international tourism, meaning 1 billion tourists. |
| 1:44.1 | 120 million jobs lost and at 3%. of international tourism, meaning one billion tourists, |
| 1:50.4 | 120 million jobs lost and at risk and so many livelihoods because 80% of workers are in the informal sector, |
| 1:54.8 | which have no coverage and no protection. |
| 1:58.2 | So where this year in 2021 then, do you see tourism beginning to return? |
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