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Richard Dixon: ‘The industry feels like the Wild West'

Government
Richard Dixon
31 March 2020

It’s just a couple of days into working at home together, the first weekend of social isolation arrives and it’s not long before I’m getting under Mrs D’s feet and am banished to my man cave out of her way.

How will this story of Travel Town end? (Credit: Matt Noble/Unsplash)

On a normal Saturday this would be a great result – a whole afternoon of sport to lose myself in. But with all sport on hold amid these strange times, my banishment feels a whole lot less appealing.


Until, that is, I come across one of my favourite old films, Dodge City, a 1939 classic western starring Errol Flynn as a Texas cattle agent who takes up the job of sheriff to clean up the rampant lawlessness rife in the city.


And, as I relax into the storyline, it slowly begins to dawn on me that this tale of the Wild West is exactly how working in the travel industry has felt for the past week or so.