People wearing protective face masks as precaution against the conoravirus walk at Tocadero plaza near Eiffel Tower in Paris, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. TORONTO -- Before COVID-19 swept across the globe and forced international travel to a standstill, shuttering people inside their homes for months at a time and making the concept of interacting with strangers a frightening business, leading live tours was a booming industry.
“Our jobs were to just refund customers and cancel their trips,” he told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview. “Every day our bookings got lower and lower and lower. And finally, for the first time in like seven years, we had, I think, a day or two with absolutely no bookings, which was crazy. “We needed to make it like it was live,” Finelli said. “This was someone in that city and that you could ask questions throughout.”