After 25 years running her own travel agency – and more in the tourism industry – Mary McKenna thought she had seen it all. Then came Covid-19. “I am a glass half full person, this will end at some stage, but it’s probably one of the biggest challenges the world has ever seen from a business point of view,” she says. Previous crises did hit travel hard, but never like this.  “It’s very different. It’s like a tsunami. It’s gone through the world, it’s shocking and it happened so fast,” McKenna reflects. “Okay, September 11 was a shock, but you…

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