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'Covid could not diminish my love for travel'

Travel Counsellors
Kirsten Hughes
10 September 2021

In January 2020, we all caught the news of emergency hospitals being erected in a city most of us had never even heard of – Wuhan in central China. A deadly virus was sweeping the city, and that city soon went into lockdown.

"Professionally, we – as an industry – have been battered, but we are not beaten," says Travel Counsellors' Kirsten Hughes

Shocking as the headlines were, I don’t think any of us could ever really have predicted what was to come. As February rolled into March, the virus began sweeping the globe.

Day by day, more countries locked down, health was impacted, lives tragically lost, and life and freedom – as we all knew it – came to a shuddering halt.

Most human beings like a sense of order, a sense of being in control. That was taken from us. Fear, stress, anxiety, sadness, loss – the most negative of human emotions – became part of everyday life as we battled the pandemic.