As the world marks Tourism Resilience Day on Tuesday, a Spanish tourism industry leader said the global tourism sector continues to demonstrate resilience in the face of crises, while warning that climate pressures require faster adaptation.

The fourth Global Tourism Resilience Day Conference and Expo opened on Monday in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, with a focus on promoting the resilience of the global tourism sector.

In the late 1950s, Frank Sinatra invited his beloved to “Come fly with me”. It evoked the faraway places burgeoning global air travel could take you to – something we all came to take for granted over the next seven decades. Until 2020, at least.