{"id":4348,"date":"2020-03-27T11:37:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2020-03-27T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:37:48","slug":"blog-passionately-getting-through-the-corona-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elskedoets.nl\/en\/nieuws\/blog-passionately-getting-through-the-corona-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog: Passionately getting through the Corona crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes\nthings go extremely fast\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two weeks\nago full of dismay I listened to a pair of entrepreneurs who saw their revenue\ndecline with seventy percent due to a stationary factory in Wuhan. Now I experience\nthe ultimate free fall with my own company: from hundred till zero. And despite\nthis zero, which is seemingly the absolute bottom, everyday there is more bad\nnews from countries that close their borders. Which, of course, makes it even\nharder for the travel industry to bounce back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do I\ndeal with this corona crisis? With the sudden standstill?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the face\nof this extreme shock, from hundred till zero, it would have been logical to\nrecover for a while. Or to burst into anger. Or to be paralyzed. But despite\nthe dramatic news I kept myself in the working mode. As in a classical sword\nduel I fully turned myself towards the \u2018enemy\u2019, the corona crisis, and with\nunabated energy I gulped the last available data. Result? Not much later I had\ndrawn six scenarios for the immediate future of Doets Reizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top priority in all these scenarios was contacting our customers that were about to go on holiday and bringing home safely the customers abroad who were threatened to be locked up by fresh, government corona restrictions. From the 9\/11 crisis I learned that the base of my company, and perhaps that of every company, is the trust your customers have in you. And that money, revenue and the accounting balance sheet are simply the translation of that trust. So together with my great team we bit the bullit and began to contact our customers as soon as possible. At first that was a big blow for them, but eventually almost everyone was very appreciative about our action. You can find a heartwarming response below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As an\nentrepreneur in the travel industry the corona crisis of course has given me\nstress and frustration. Due to the dazzling dynamics of the virus some of my\nscenarios were obsolete the moment I finished them. But constantly knowing\nwhere your company is all about \u2013 treat your customers with the best imaginable\nholiday and creating wonderful memories for them \u2013 and noticing that your\ncustomers recognize and appreciate your passion and effort, is a huge gift.\nPerhaps it\u2019s the most beautiful \u2018capital\u2019 with which we passionately can\nrebuilt our company in the post-corona-era, although may be in a slimmed-down\nshape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the\ncorona crisis teaches us one thing it\u2019s how the world is in need for honest\ncare and looking after each other, instead of big-bigger-biggest.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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