Posted: 3/24/2020
Hello readers! My name is Brittney Anderson and with the Coronavirus fleeting through the country temporarily closing many businesses and organizations, I will be working on posts like these remotely for the UWF Historic Trust.
Hello readers! My name is Brittney Anderson and with the Coronavirus fleeting through the country temporarily closing many businesses and organizations, I will be working on posts like these remotely for the UWF Historic Trust.
I am a senior majoring in Global Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of West Florida. I am currently interning at the UWF Historic Trust as an OPS Visitor Experience Associate. All Florida universities were mandated to do remote online instruction and work through the rest of the spring semester. Although I cannot do my typical duties from home, I will instead be researching and blogging how COVID-19 has affected museums and other businesses in the hospitality industry. With governments declaring lock downs on cities, counties, and states in order to kill the spread of the Coronavirus, it is also killing the hospitality and entertainment industry. Beaches are closing, movie theaters are closing, even restaurants are closing. So how are these institutions handling this global pandemic? According to the New York Times, “the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco has reminded ushers that they don’t have to physically take tickets from people — just scan them.”
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley offers for patrons to exchange their tickets for another date. The Metropolitan Opera issued guidelines for employees and artists to not come to work at the Met for 14 days if they have recently been to a country flagged for Coronavirus outbreaks by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On the brighter side, the Met is offering a virtual substitute. “Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. the following day. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers.” By offering this, it encourages people to stay home to stop the spread of the Coronavirus.
Here are some articles and websites you can check out:
Here are some articles and websites you can check out:
New York Times, From Coughing Fits to Closings, Cultural World Girds for Coronavirus
Met Opera, Nightly Met Opera Streams
Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), Current exhibits
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