India, April 21 -- Barely has Travel and tourism recovered from the COVID-19 catastrophe; it has been hit by the Donald Trump virus. With neither a vaccine nor immunisation programme in sight, PATA and the global Travel and tourism industry at large will need wisdom, lots of it, to cope with this latest round of instability.

Unlike COVID-19, there is no disputing the cause and origins of the Trump virus. It struck at the height of what was an already unstable operating environment - wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, technological disruptions, rising extremism and militarism, declining democratic freedoms, justice, and human rights, climate change, growing rich-poor income gaps, tectonic demographic shifts, geopolitical superpower riv...