The Legal Impacts of COVID-19 in the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industry

7 might address the inefficiencies built into the low-cost airline model, which mainly conducts short-haul flights and relies on point-to-point services rather than a hub-and-spoke model 21 . Tackling emissions will also likely require rethinking travel as an ecosystem more generally and taking steps to increase multi-modal transport and automation. 4. Conclusions – Better Angels of Our Nature When faced with the crisis of a fracturing nation, US President Abraham Lincoln said “Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature”. What the travel and tourism industry needs – what the aviation industry needs – is for the angels of our better nature to prevail. We must learn the lessons this crisis has brought and not lose sight of the opportunity this crisis presents for rethinking things anew, opening markets to more travel and tourism, perhaps more regional and local, possibly through networks of regional and local tourism that are linked internationally through multimodal means, so as to better facilitate the vital role played by these industries – the exchange of thought and culture across geographic divides. For the aviation industry, this means not retrenching in the Chicago/Open Skies model, or worse, the Chicago/Bermuda model. The fourth scenario described above is the most utopian of prospects. Utopia, translated literally, means ‘nowhere’. Although the States tend to eschew change, now is the time not to let the crisis go to waste, and the reaction should be nothing less than a Chicago 2.0. 21 Arthur Neslen, “‘Ryanair is the new coal’: airline enters EU’s top 10 emitters list” The Guardian (1 April 2019) https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/01/ryanair-new-coal-airline-enters-eu-top-10-emitters-list .