Over the pandemic, entrepreneurs Alexis Bowen and Craig Zapatka co-founded Elsewhere, a new travel company that puts destination welfare and authentic experiences first. When the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan in February 2020, passengers and crew had no idea of the storm that was brewing. Soon, 1 in 10 employees of the global tourism industry would lose their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a whopping 62 million in total.