Challenges of Hospitality, Leisure and Travel Industry during COVID-19

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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Challenges of hospitality leisure and travel industry during COVID-19....................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
In recent decades, terrorism and local criminality have emerged as two main threats to the
tourism industry. The retractile nature of tourism, which indicates that it is likely to retreat in the
face of external dangers, has encouraged analysts and professionals to question the precautionary
doctrine’s logic. Radicalized groups have recently battered tourists and world-wide travellers in
key European cities as well as the Middle East (Litvin and Smith, 2021). When the number of
foreign visitors drops, it's important not to lose sight of the fact that terrorism generates a
diplomatic spat between the countries receiving and delivering the tourists. Aside from that,
industry experts have attempted to predict the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global
hotel industry in 2020, predicting a profit drop of 11-29 percent. Emergency steps to restrict the
virus’s spread are already having a big impact on pubs, cafes, and hotels, according to reports
(Singh, Bhatia and Nigam, 2021). According to a European survey, cancellations have climbed
by nearly half, and hospitality organisations believe that they could lose up to 33% as a result of
the government’s emergency measures. Tourism has traditionally been one of the industries that
has been hardest damaged by pandemics and crises. The tourism industry is in a unique position
because transportation is a vector for spreading the virus. As a result, it is routinely used to
disrupt the virus's transmission cycle. Tourism has a dynamic element that necessitates
movement, which facilitates viral spread inexorably. Individual movement by air raises the
likelihood of viruses spreading at a much faster rate than usual (Polyzos, Samitas and Spyridou,
2020). As a result, tourism is both a stimulant for virus propagation and a victim of virus spread.
MAIN BODY
Challenges of hospitality leisure and travel industry during COVID-19
The drastic impact of COVID-19 is visible in case of the hospitality, leisure and travel
industry. The main reason that these industries are facing the most difficult times due to COVID-
19 in comparison to other industries is because these industries require presence of large number
of people including consumers and employees in public spaces which restricted in order to stop
the spread of the virus (Gallego and Font, 2020). Relaxation in the COVID-19 travel restrictions
has created a challenge for the travel industry. The challenge of ensuring that the COVID-19
guidelines are followed by consumers and staff members so the dispersion of Virus is stopped
affects the daily business activities, revenue generated and future growth of the travel industry.