The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism Industry in the UK

The impact of Covid-19
on Tourism UK

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Tourism industry is considered as a significant economic activity that facilitates in
enhancing the number of visitors towards a particular destination. It consists all those businesses
that offers products or services directly to assist the business in providing pleasure as well as
leisure activities which are away from the environment of home. In this existing project, an essay
is going to be present that explains the impact of COVID-19 on the tourism industry of United
Kingdom (Chen and Hang, 2021). The essay will cover all good and bad impacts that are
associated with tourism industry and their impact on it.
MAIN BODY
Tourism industry is still facing the influence of the pandemic situation of COVID-19.
The risks that are concerned with travel and the management perceptions of the tourists are
considered as the significant matter in their decision in order to travel to the destinations during
this pandemic situation. Travel risk as well as management perceptions of tourists can impact
their psychological behaviours for the travel to the destinations. Visitors can view their risks
which are associated with travel and the issues of management separately because of the
spreading of the infectious disease. Because of the pandemic situation of COVID-19, tourists
have avoided visiting the destinations and the economic lockdown within the country UK has
greatly impacted the performance of tourism industry. This pandemic situation has not only
originated a shortage of tourists who permit the tourism industry to thrive but has also brought
specifically typical changes in relation to social distancing and hygiene which became a
challenge in order to execute in the long-term (Kazmi, Shah and Khan, 2020). It has been evident
in the government actions that the picture portrayed through publicising the respective country
as having the worst COVID as there was death rate per million of the people has stuck fearness
into the growth as well as success of the tourism markets. It has also been argued that the impact
of such data could outlast itself pandemic and leave the country being unsafe as well as
undesirable as a destination for tourist.
The impact of COVID-19 on the tourism industry further influenced the heritage
conservation and on the social and cultural communities specifically for the ethnic groups and
indigenous people. For instance most of the intangible practices of the cultural heritage like
traditional gatherings as well as festivals have been postponed or halted and along with it, there