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From the Times of Israel

Solitary guides leading tours in empty museums: Jerusalem’s new tourism plan

Capital hopes thousands of would-be visitors who can’t fly to Israel because of the coronavirus will sign up for virtual visits, on the streets and in the halls of culture

From the article: “With Jerusalem’s tourist scene decimated just before Passover and Easter, its tourist chiefs are launching an online platform to give people a “virtual” experience in the city.

Museum staff will run trips inside empty museums, accompanied by cameras instead of tour groups, and guides will do the same on the city’s streets.”
 
We had a similar idea for southern Italy for client's ancestral towns, then they locked-down everything - including museums. Now, you can be stopped and have to document a necessity to be in transit.

Something they might be able to do if they piece together footage that they already have, wasn't clear if that was the case in this article.
 
Ouest-France - Coronavirus. Nantes : un apéro entre voisins très controversé

Translation aided by Monsieur Google [see above URL for photo] ...

Coronavirus. Nantes: a very controversial aperitif between neighbours

Saturday, April 4, 2020 in the evening, in the Nantes-Sud district, residents took out tables and chairs in front of their homes to share an aperitif, while respecting the barrier measures to the letter. An initiative far from being unanimous.

It was Saturday, April 4, in the evening, in a street in Nantes-Sud. Neighbours met for an aperitif despite the confinement. The initiative came from a resident, who had no great difficulty deciding her neighbours. They were thus a dozen to leave tables and chairs for a friendly moment while keeping their distance and respecting the barrier gestures in the middle of a coronavirus health crisis. The neighbours stayed several metres from each other.

"It feels great to see people", says Jean-Yves, one of the residents. "And above all to laugh, to speak"

Internet users' anger

The initiative is in any case very far from being shared on social networks: "They are oblivious!", react several Internet users.

"It does not seem to me that the activity of these people corresponds to a box on the attestation of displacement form", underlines a reader.

"To endorse this kind of attitude is to open the door to the irresponsible and uncivil behavior of unscrupulous people", also refers a reader to the editorial staff of Presse Océan.

"Think of all these caregivers who fight for us", readers insist.
 
For those of you who have taken tours with the wonderful Luisella Romeo in Venice, I see that she is now offering online webinars. I discovered her as a guide from recommendations back on the old Slow Travel site.
 

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