Originally Posted by
Adelphos
In addition, tourists aren’t visiting cities globally. That means no tourists and commuters, which is having a disastrous impact on the businesses that depend on them. The only way governments could have addressed this is to get control of the virus on a nationwide or global basis, which means test/trace/treatment/masking.
In Europe, tourism picked up in those locations that had relatively few restriction (both on entry and on day-to-day life). Of course it was still well below 100% (after all, non-EU visitors are not allowed to enter at all), but there was some demand.