Our new Have Your Say personal essay is called Tourism in the age of Coronavirus, or the Seven Stages of Grief by Dr. Tomasz Cebulski, a Jewish heritage tour guide and genealogist in Poland — and a scholar whose PhD was on post-Holocaust Auschwitz as a center of both commemoration and tourism.
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has halted much travel and curtailed international tourism, has had a devastating impact on guides and other tourism professionals. It has driven Cebulski to sharply turn his activities from guiding into genealogy, on-line guiding, and film production.
In his Have Your Say essay, he reflects – month by month – on the impact of the pandemic on his work and on that of the tourism industry in general.
Click here to read his Have Your Say
Tomasz was a speaker at the 2017 Venice conference on Jewish Heritage Tourism in the Digital Age — watch his talk below: