The Most Important Story in Tourism in 2019
Skift Take
While the story of tourism in chaotic Hong Kong this year is specific to that place, it also points to the tenuousness of the global tourism industry as a whole.
The story of Hong Kong in 2019 is a story of many things: self-determination, the price of democracy, and the maturation of the global superpower that is China. But it's also a story about tourism. Or more specifically, how much even a robust and well-established tourism economy depends on the stability, safety, and predictability of its destination.
Of course, protests and civil unrest have rocked tourism destinations before. But the persistence of the protests in Hong Kong — which is to say the persis
