I flew from Japan to Toronto on March 1, finishing that journey on a puddle jumper to Ottawa. Like many Canadians, I have been dolefully wondering when I might next board an airplane.
Whenever the black curtain that now shrouds most of the world is lifted — and that may only come several months after a vaccine or a cure is found — the landscape will be much different than it was only two months ago.
Tourism was a luxury reserved for the wealthy when Britain created the modern travel industry by taking holidays on the European continent in the late 19th century.
It was not until the 1960s and 1970s, with the advent of the jet airliners, that tourism to the far corners of the planet became affordable to many westerners.