If a substantial number of tourism workers feel a sense of betrayal and ambivalence about the sector they have given so many years of sacrifice to, who can blame them.Often regarded as the key contributor to the economic engine which keeps this country going, tourism has become our nation’s lifeblood. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has so altered the industry, that our economic planners are pinning hopes of an economic recovery on tourism, despite the health threats caused by COVID-19.It, therefore, cannot be a good look for a country that has placed so many of its eggs into the tourism basket, to so callously treat the people on whose shoulders, the industry’s success is so dependent. We continue to be saddened by the treatment meted out to so many workers in this sector.
