Bernard Lane, currently residing in England, was the founding Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism and is a consultant on sustainable tourism, local economic regeneration and heritage conservation, for communities, governments and businesses, as well as working with Eurac Research in South Tyrol, Italy. The Corona Virus pandemic now keeps him totally fixed to his desk and computer and has put a halt to over 50 years of worldwide travel to projects in Asia, Portugal, Italy and Ireland and other parts of the UK.