World Health Organisation .. It was not the frst time. The previous State of 17 Alarm was decreed precisely to avoid a tourist crisis resulting from the strike called by the air trafc controllers' union in December 2010 . 18 But the 2020 State of Alarm was for a completely diferent reason. A highly contagious respiratory virus forced all countries to take unprecedented decisions: closing their borders. The only way to stop the spread of the disease was to prevent people from moving. The movement of all citizens was therefore restricted, except for essential reasons. Logically, this drastically afected the tourism industry , as it is not considered an essential activity, 19 despite its economic importance. All tourism activities, leisure, hotels, accommodation, congresses, etc., came to a complete standstill. In fact, one of the main causes of the rapid spread of the virus was the hypermobility in the globalised world in which we live. Hypermobility originated, to a large extent, by tourism itself, so that its closure was inevitable. This is what has been called the "tourist zero", i.e. the total and absolute paralysis of all tourist activity, which has shown, among other things, the fragility of the sector after the fnancial crisis of 2008 despite the good numbers As a general refection, it is true that on the occasion of this pandemic we should, in my 17 opinion, refect on the increasingly important international challenges for the law. Perhaps it would be a good idea to give greater powers to international organisations or institutions such as the World Health Organisation or the World Tourism Organisation. On the impact of the air trafc controllers' strike on tourism consumers see, RACIONERO 18 VALENCIA, S., “El derecho de huelga de los controladores aéreos frente al derecho de los consumidores turísticos” in I Jornadas Doctorales de Castilla-La Mancha el doctorado: impacto social y futuro profesional, coordinated by COLLADO YURRITA, M. A., (coord.), (2011) y HERNÁNDEZ ADROVER J. J., (coord.), Universidad de Castilla- La Mancha, As pointed out by YANG, Y., ZHANG, H. y CHENC, X., (2020) in "Coronavirus pandemic and 19 tourism: dynamic stochastic general equilibrium modeling of infectiours desease outbreak". Ann Tour Res; 83:102913.doi:10.1016/j.annals.2020.102913, “Infectious disease outbreaks, including coronavirus, greatly jeopardize the tourism industry given its reliance on human mobility”. 11
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