Post-Pandemic Paradise in Rapa Nui
Saleem Reshamwala |
Far Flung
• October 2020
What happens to a tourist paradise when no one shows up to visit? Rapa Nui, known to many as Easter Island, typically welcomes more than 120,000 visitors each year—which is a lot for a place with only 10,000 residents. After COVID-19 shuts down flights to this remote island, citizens reimagine what their lives, their livelihood, and their home can be without tourism—and dream of what a post-pandemic paradise economy might look like. (Audio Only)