Hospitality, Leisure and Travel Industry during Covid-19 [Challenges]

MGBBT0ASB: Academic Skills for Business and Management
September 2021-2022
ID: 100044070
Group: A1
Name of the Lecturer: Faria Tofail
Campus Location: Stratford
Date of submission: 29/10/2021

For your Essay, please choose one topic from the following:
(Select as appropriate and delete the rest)
Adapting to new technology including Ecommerce and Social Media platforms.
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Challenges of Hospitality, Leisure and Travel industry during Covid-19 pandemic.
Introduction: I will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the hospitality,
leisure, and travel industries in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of
people across East Asia, Europe, and North America were exposed to COVID-19
in a matter of weeks, putting their health and lives at peril. This is despite the fact
that the poor and underprivileged in these regions have been treated unfairly and
disproportionately. (Goger and Hadden Loh, 2020). Wuhan's government said on
December 8th, 2019, that coronavirus sickness 2019 has been detected in hundreds
of new viral cases (COVID-19). As a result of the global transmission of COVID-
19, a new strain of SARS (SARS-CoV-2), a worldwide pandemic has formed. Co-
infection with infected individuals promotes COVID-19, a highly contagious
respiratory ailment. Fever, coughing, and breathing are all symptoms. Wuhan's
government said on December 8th, 2019, that coronavirus sickness 2019 has been
detected in hundreds of new viral cases (COVID-19). As a result of the global
transmission of COVID-19, a new strain of SARS (SARS-CoV-2), a worldwide
pandemic has formed. Co-infection with infected individuals promotes COVID-19,
a highly contagious respiratory ailment. Fever, coughing, and breathing are all
symptoms.1
First we discuss, what issue is raised in Hospitality business during Covid-19
pandemic and how companies can solve this issue. In Hospitality business the main
issue which was raised the travel restrictions, new law for social-distance and rapid
changed in the health situation. Many countries' hospitality and tourism industries
have been mostly shut down, and international travel as well as domestic travel
1 (Hospitality, tourism, human rights and the impact of COVID-19 | Emerald Insight, 2021)

inside certain countries has all but disappeared. One of the most important causes
of the pandemic's rapid and widespread spread was air and marine travel (Chinazzi
et al., 2020) Except for the two World Wars of the twentieth century, travel and the
usage of hospitality and tourism services have both declined dramatically. In this
discussion, we'll look at how the COVID-19 has affected our rights to engage in
the hotel and tourist industries and what it means for these sectors going forward.
In this pandemic situation the hotel didn’t find enough customers because
Government restricted many things to control this situation.2 New law for social
distancing play a major role on this. After making this law people can’t go outside
which caused the hotel businessman a huge loss on their business. On that time,
they faced many challenges because no cure was not found at the early stage of this
pandemic and the situation was getting worst day by day. (Chinazzi et al., 2020)
Travel restriction also played a major role because all roads are block in this
situation and the police didn’t give any person the chance to go outside. If we
talked about how this issue was solved during the pandemic. So, first of all in the
early stage the travel restriction problem couldn’t be solved because the
Government directly order not to go outside. But after a couple of months when the
situation was getting little bit better, the hotel company followed the rules and
regulation which is provided to them by the Government. In this pandemic time,
hotels gave discount on their room and also gave various types of facilities which
can attract the people to come because the hotel business man also knows that
Peoples are also bored to stay home for a huge time. (Walton, 2020). They used
the situation to rethink how they can grow their business again. However, during
pandemic time is too much tough for the hospitality business to stable their
business. It took a lot of time to stable their business.3
Another issue which is raised in hospitality and tourist business is that the right of
the people is neglected during the pandemic time. In Europe and the United States,
according to some estimates, up to 75 percent of small hospitality businesses might
be forced to close as a consequence of the epidemic (Goger and Hadden Loh,
2020). Could this advice for more price regulation of tourism undercut any sense
of an all-inclusive right to travel as a result of fewer and more expensive suppliers
as a result of this recommendation? Since long-term social distance must be
maintained whether traveling by airline, cruise ship, or restaurant, this is already
anticipated in the concept and is expected to substantially increase both the cost of
operation and the cost of the final product to consumers. As a result, substantial
2 (Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality, Travel, and Leisure Sector, 2021)3 Withum. 2021. COVID-19 Impact on the Hospitality Industry.