Impacts of Covid-19 on Tourism Industry - Essay

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Tourism industry is very vast in nature. It is also recognised as the travel industry in
which the idea of people moving or travelling to other locations, either locally, nationally or
internationally. It can be done for leisure, social and corporate objectives. Moreover, it is nearly
connected to the hospitality sector, hotel sector, and transport sector (Seleiman and et.al., 2020).
The main agenda behind tourism companies is to make tourists happy, equipped and occupied
with the things they require during their time in which the are far away from their home. The
essay is based upon the discussion on the impacts of Covid-19 on the tourism industry.
MAIN BODY
Coronavirus is one the viruses that can cause infection in the nose, sinuses and upper
throat. Most of them are not that harmful as they are exist with little symptoms and can be
diagnosed symptomatically, but somehow it resulted the death of immense number of people
throughout the world, this is because of its terrible demonstration causing respiratory failure. It
has had a withering impact on the demographics resulting in more than 5.3 million deaths in the
entire world. Deficiency of crisis treatments and shortage of drugs of life saving has encouraged
the repurposing of current therapeutics and emergence of vaccines with the combined efforts of
industrial experts and scientists in the short span. As of 2021, there have been around 266000000
inveterate cases of coronavirus, which covers approximately 5300000 deaths (Coronavirus
Disease (COVID-19), 2021).
The present situation of Covid-19 pandemic is leading to fundamental adjustments in
terms of economic behaviour of people which will inescapably affect the tourism industry and
activities related to it. It is affected in tourism host nations and international as well. Immediate
control measures such as avoiding physical contact, necessary restrictions on travel, social
distancing and many more, have vanished the interest of tourists in travelling at other places.
Covid-19 pandemic has caused the immediate affects across the entire orbit of social and
economic activities (Santacroce, Bottalico and Charitos, 2020). Before this pandemic happening
in the world, travel and tourism had become one of the most essential sectors in the economies of
world, accounting for ten percent of world GDP and more than 320 million jobs worldwide.
The pandemic has resulted the tourism sector due to the resulting travelling restrictions
and drop-off in the demand among tourists. This industry has been severely affected by the