Category: Tourism

Traveling has been banned in many countries to fight the spread of corona-virus within their boundaries and beyond, despite many of these restrictions still being in place, travel is slowly starting up again. People have been locked down for months and need to stretch, see something other than a screen, and help in boosting the economy. Food chains, restaurants, and some tourist attractions are opening up for local and domestic travel. A few countries have even started to welcome international travelers. The big question is that how can we safely…

It is a myth that there are regions where the whole income of people depends on tourism. Swat is presented as one example. It is one of the most-touted tourism destinations in the northern areas of Pakistan. The only industry is cognate to tourism are hotels or restaurants which don’t contribute in any way significantly to the local economy as the hotels are owned by upper classes, often by non-locals have them as surplus income. Maximum a few hundred people have been working in them as staff, whereas, Swat has…