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Covid-19 to curb wanderlust

global travel and tourism have been decimated by restrictions imposed to halt the spread of the coronavirus, but attention is starting to turn to how and when a recovery might take place in a sector estimated to account for 200m jobs and a tenth of the world’s economy.

Uncertainty prevails amid concern over whether there will be a “second wave”, or resurgence of infections in countries that have begun easing their lockdowns – a scenario the World Health Organization says is inevitable, based on the behaviour of previous pandemics.

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