The Hard-Hit Tour Companies Pushing Forward on a Careful Path to Recovery
Photo Credit: A customer on recent trip from Exodus Travels in the Dolomites in Italy. Exodus Travels
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Anything involving groups has been tough in travel, but a few tour companies are making the great wide open spaces even more expansive as they welcome back travelers while taking super-cautious measures.
While just about all sectors of the travel industry have suffered since the outset of Covid-19, multi-day tour operators have especially been hit hard as virtually all of them have had to scrap planned excursions.
Many companies that wanted to resume trips relatively quickly were upended by one obstacle or another. “Every passing week would result in some new or updated public health measure, which would send us back to the drawing board to rejig our plans,” said John Gunter, the CEO of Canadian-based tour operator Frontiers North Adventures.
[caption id="attachment_409503" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A worker sanitizing a bus for the Tundra Buggy tour part of the Frontiers North Adventures, an enthusiast-guided, group trip in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.[/caption]
However, there are tour companies for whom 2020 hasn’t been all doom-and-gloom. Some have resumed trips in recent months while several more plan to do the same by New Year’s Day.
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