Most of us know that the global coronavirus pandemic impacted the service, hospitality, and tourism industries. The negative economic consequences were most evident by the significant losses and layoffs reported by airlines, cruise operators, restaurants, and hotels.

But those businesses and their employees weren’t the only ones to see their incomes evaporate as potential guests stay at home. The craftspeople and artisans that sell items to tourists were also hit hard by coronavirus have also been hit economically by the lack of leisure travel globally. Many of these folks are a part of small communities that keep alive some form of crafts and techniques thousands of years old thanks to the tourism trade.