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Faizan Ali

FILE - In this June 28, 2015 file photo, tourists and a baby camel walk on a beach in front of the Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Sousse, Tunisia. The blood on the sand has washed away, but the damage wreaked on Tunisia by a few terrifying minutes of gunfire at a beach resort will be deep and lasting. The tourist economy is likely to be gutted: Up to 2 million hotel nights per year are expected to be lost, hastened by warnings from Britain and other European governments last week that their citizens are no longer safe on . (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File) (AP)

Global tourism industry may shrink by more than 50% due to the pandemic

Faizan Ali, Cihan Cobanoglu