gloria guevara and paul theroux, my two panelists, thank you very much indeed.us from lots of continents all over the world. that's all for this edition of global questions, travel in a post—covid world. we're giving you lots of food for thought this time. remember, we're the programme that brings you the trend lines behind the headlines. and if you want to be part of our programme, you can submit a question for the next programme to global questions. and next week, we'll be looking at what some people have described as a vaccine apartheid. so, until the next time, from me and the rest of the global questions team, goodbye. a chilly start to the day, frost and mist and fog around but most has melted away because of the sunshine. it has been going at it and bringing us plenty of blue sky. a weak weather front across scotland and northern ireland bringing in more cloud and drizzle. a bit disappointing this afternoon. further south, these are the skies we are looking at and temperatures rising as well. fairly strong sunshine and mild for the time of year. it will s

gloria guevara, what's your take on this?uestion, and thank you for and having me today. you're absolutely right — we need to make the invisible visible and testing is the best way to replace quarantine and allow the mobility and allow the travellers to be back in the countries. that will provide the opportunity to have travellers in tanzania that will share the income from developed nations to developing nations, such as tanzania, and provide food on the table and also help to recover the jobs and livelihoods that have been impacted. so, we are in favour of testing so that we can avoid exporting the virus and only to those who have tested positive should be in quarantines, and not the entire country. gloria, just very quickly, it sounds like you're kind of suggesting that some countries have gone a bit over the top when it comes to quarantine restrictions, locking people up in hotel rooms and all the rest of it? yes, there are some countries... currently, the assessment is based on countries and not an individual, which we d

gloria guevara is the chief executive of the world travel and tourism council and joins me now.is is an unprecedented situation and i travel? i think, as we know, this is| an unprecedented situation and the travel sector has suffered the most. we need some consistency of measures across the globe. consistency is very important. instead of assuming that an entire country is infected, we need to move to a risk—based agenda. we are not in favour of blanket quarantines. why is that? because of the impact it has on the sector. it creates uncertainty and changing the rules so often has an effect. ~ ., ., ., , ., effect. without quarantines, though, how our countries, _ effect. without quarantines, though, how our countries, governments, i how our countries, governments, going to be able to get a grip on cases coming into their country and whether there are new variants that would pose any risk? i’m whether there are new variants that would pose any risk?— would pose any risk? i'm in saudi arabia right _ would pose any risk? i'm in saudi arabia right now— would pose any risk? i'm in sa