Six months later, as Europe's leanest tourist summer season in recent history is starting to draw to a close, Covid-19 is yet to loosen its suffocating grip on the continent. Virginia Mayo/AP A ticket vendor for a canal boat tour operator waits in his booth in Bruges, Belgium. It left the European tourism industry relying on hope more than anything else. On a normal day – not like the one when he had 114 customers instead of 1200 – tourists instead of birds would rule the waters. Virginia Mayo/AP Europe’s leanest summer tourist season in history is starting to draw to a close.

Source: Stuff September 06, 2020 17:03 UTC