Tour Operators Create New Jobs to Assure Travelers About Trip Safety
Photo Caption: A member of an Exodus Travels trip following proper protocol. Exodus Travels
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Tour operators have realized they can't get complacent about guest safety as any possible large-scale Covid outbreak will threaten their bottom line. So expect them to devote more resources to keep their clients safe amidst the rise of the Omicron variant.
Covid essentially brought large-scale tourism to halt in 2020, and decimated the travel industry in numerous ways — one of which being the sector lost more than 62 million jobs worldwide.
However, despite widespread layoffs throughout the sector, several tour operators created positions in the last 18 months to help customers cope with travel's murky present and future.
Three tour operators, Trafalgar Tours, Insight Vacations and Luxury Gold, have placed wellbeing directors on their trips.
What exactly do they do?
“Their role is primarily to ensure that all of our suppliers — the restaurants, the hotels, any attractions or venues that we go to — are all adhering to whatever the local protocols are,” said Melissa DaSilva, the U.S. president of Trafalgar. “They are ensuring that our guests can get any questions answered that come up dur
