Tourism Tidbits: Handling Stress for Travel and Tourism Professionals

Dr. Peter Tarlow | July 10, 2023

Dr. Peter Tarlow One of the ways that the travel and tourism industry promotes its leisure market is that vacations are a time to destress. Unfortunately, all too often travel, both for business and leisure, seems to promote stress rather than destressing us. Anyone who has ever traveled understands why travel in English is derived from the French word, travail, meaning hard work.  Travel, especially in high season, is work.  In today's complicated world, we deal with overbookings and airline cancellations, power outages and weather conditions, and in the twenty-first century, security and pandemic concerns have added extra stress to th...