Challenges Faced by Hospitality, Leisure and Travel Industry During COVID-19

Challenges during
COVID-19

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
The challenges faced by challenges of hospitality, leisure and travel industry during COVID
19............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Hospitality industry is one of the vital industries that are contributing a lot to GDP of the
nation. It is seen that COVID 19 has changed the scenario and operations of the company. It is
pandemic that is causing various challenges that is faced by the industry and that is causing the
loss of profitability (Baum and et.al., 2020). So, it is vital to know about these challenges and
that helps to find solutions of these issues. In this report there is discussion related to the
challenges that are faced by leisure, hospitality as well as travel and tourism industry.
MAIN BODY
It is seen that hospitality industry largely represents hotels, bars, restaurants and leisure
companies. It is seen that people like travelling and entertainment and that is reason they boost
hospitality industry. It is seen that hospitality industry contributes around 4% to GDP of UK. But
at the present time each and every one is changed and stopped due to COVID 19 pandemic
around the world (Martínez-Martínez and et.al., 2019). It is seen that all the business
organisations in hospitality industry are facing loss due to lockdown. It is predicted by the
experts predicted that the profitability has declined by 11 to 29%.
The challenges faced by challenges of hospitality, leisure and travel industry during COVID 19
There is various numbers of challenges that are caused to COVID 19 as the pandemic has
put a stoppage to the lives of people. They are unable to go out and their no travelling done. The
description related to these challenges is done below:
Impact on jobs
It is seen that nowadays people to not go out for travel and tourism as well as there is no
opportunities seen in the hotel. So this has caused a major issue in the operations and functioning
of the industry. So for this reason there is loss of job full stop various employees have lost their
jobs due to covid-19 pandemic as there is no use of more employees due to lack of customers. It
is also seen that people have no work to do and no profitability in the hotels is the main reason
that they are taking out employees. It is observed that various customers have lost their job and
the problem of unemployment has also increased due to covid-19 pandemic. It is observed that
there is problem in income level of the employees. Various people have migrated towards their
home countries and are unable to come back and also are not getting any salary as there is no
work in the hospitality industry.