COVID-19 Forces London Tourist Guides To Adapt
Tourists queue for the London Eye attraction in central London on August 24, 2020. – The World Travel & Tourism Council said this week that Britain’s economy will lose about £22 billion this year because of the coronavirus outbreak. VisitBritain also forecast that the number of foreign tourists will plummet by 73 percent in 2020 to 11 million people. The grounding of aircraft and travel restrictions have largely been blamed. Tolga Akmen / AFP.
Down darkened side streets and past shiny new buildings, Robinson recounts the tale of the still unidentified serial killer of five women who stalked the streets of Whitechapel in 1888. “We have far more Britons than we had,” said Olivia Calvert, one of Robinson’s colleagues. “It’s a huge shift. They’re expecting something else, something different.”
Tour guide Joel Robinson leads a group of tourists on a Jack The Ripper tour in London on August 24, 2020. – London’s tourist guides are resuming their work slowly as lockdown restrictions are eased, and adapting to new health and safety rules to curb the spread of the virus. Numbers are currently limited but it’s the background of the clients that has changed the most: before Robinson and walking guides like him played mainly to foreign tourists. Now, they’re mainly British. Tolga Akmen / AFP.
In London, guides in particular are worried about the lack of American visitors, who have a culture of tipping well, but who are also currently subject to quarantine restrictions.
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