Impact of Covid19 on UK Tourism Industry

The Covid19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the UK tourism industry, leading to a decline in profitability and employment rates. This report evaluates the impact of the pandemic on the industry and provides recommendations for recovery.

Evaluate the impact of the
Covid19 pandemic on the UK
tourism industry

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Evaluating the impact of COVID- 19 on the tourism industry....................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
COVID- 19 is the very dangerous and infectious disease that harm the people in the very
bas way. Many people have affected from this infectious disease and some people have caused
death due to this. This disease has impact the various sectors of the economy and decreases the
profitability of the sectors. The tourism sector of the UK has also affected by this pandemic and
lowers the profitability of the tourism industry. The report will evaluate about the impact of the
COVID -19 on the tourism industry of United Kingdom and recommendations to the tourism
industry of UK.
MAIN BODY
Evaluating the impact of COVID- 19 on the tourism industry
The Covid- 19 has a great impact on the various sectors and industries and has infected
more than 82 million people and also killed over 1.8 million people across the globe. This
pandemic has increased the death rates due to lack of health services and proper facilities in the
hospitals. Tourism industry refers to the overall businesses that used to have the direct and
indirect impact in order to provide the goods and services to run business and making the people
travel in the different markets (Foo and et.al., 2021). Thee are basically the five types of tourism
industry which are transportation, accommodation, foods and beverages, travel services and
entertainment services. By the happening of the COVID- 19 it has affected the tourism industry
of the UK. This pandemic has shown the people the importance of new science ad technology as
the world is very back in order to sustain in the market. The tourism industry of the United
Kingdom has contributed 6.7 % of the gross values in the year 2018. After this the pandemic has
started in the year 2019 and had adverse impact on the tourism sector in 2020 and 2021. The
government has various restrictions at that time on the travel and tourism industry. There was so
much of restriction on the people in order to travel from one city to another and from one state or
nation to another. This has cause adverse impact and decreases the profitability of the tourism
industry in UK (Škare, Soriano and Porada-Rochoń, 2021). As these restrictions were slowly
relaxed the government has done the quarantine travelling for the people and they were
quarantine foe the several days after travelling. According to the research it is estimated that in
the second quarter of the 2020 the overseas people almost 96% has no visit outside and 97% in
the year 2019. There was a great decrease in the number of passenger as people were not
travelling due to happening of pandemic. The data of the civil aviation has showed that the rates

of the passenger at the UK airport was declining at the increasing rate. The domestic and
international passengers in the UK used to fell in the February 2020 and increases in the April
2020.
After having the partial relaxation in the travel and tourism sector in the UK rose the
traffic of the passenger in the August 2021. By this there was a positive impact on the tourism
sector and by this it maintains the profitability of the company (Jaipuria, Parida and Ray, 2021).
On comparison with the air travel industry the roadways have increases the profitability of the
industry. By the happening of the pandemic it has decrease the employment rates in the market.
As there was no transportation in the market it decreases the jobs of the people and there was the
lock- down in the market. There was a great occupancy in the hospitality industry as there was
no availability of the transportation in the market of the UK (Bakar and Rosbi, 2020). The
greater London has only full of 20% of members as compared to the previous years. But after the
opening of the lock down it used to maintain the profitability rates of the hospitality as people
started travelling across the globe. The coronavirus has impacted the turnover of the businesses
in the travel and tourism industry. By estimating the data shows that the industry has declined at
the increasing rate and also decreases the turnover of the travel and tourism. This shows that the
business has a great decline in the first lock- down in the nation. The impact of the pandemic on
the labour market in the tourism and travel industries has affected the overall employability of
the market (Yeh, 2021). This can be investigated by using the data from the Labour Force Survey
and helps to now about the rate of the unemployment in the market. This force survey used to
help the industry to know about the number of people that are affected by the coronavirus. By

analysing this it has changes the unemployment rates and helps the people to get the job by the
opening of the lock- down. The labours of the tourism industry has affected and lost their job by
the happening of the lock- down (Beh and Lin, 2021). There were great changes in the
employment in the year 2019 to 2020 and this has affected the travel and tourism industry of the
UK. The food and serving activities has fall the slower rates but although this was also affected
by the lock- down. The services of the passenger transport which includes the passenger vehicle
rental, and have the negative contribution in the travel and tourism industry employment.
In the last previous years it is seen that the tourism of the UK is one of the most growing
sector in the UK markets. This was only before the happening of the global corona- virus
pandemic. The industry has the great loss in this year and this has affected the profitability of the
travel and tourism industry. Tourism industry is the important industry as it boots the
profitability of the firms, creates the number of jobs and helps in developing the infrastructure in
the different markets of the UK. The pandemic has severely affected the travel and tourism
industry and Caius the loss of almost US $4.5 trillion (Jones and Comfort, 2020). The domestic
visitors was decreased by the 45 % while the international visitors was decreases by the 69.4 %
in the year 2019. This pandemic was so different and it has affected the whole market of the UK.
The market of the travel and tourism is worldwide and it will take almost 10 months to get
recover. Coronavirus has negatively hit the economy of the tourism and have the great impact on
the jobs of people. This was the one of the main sector which was greatly affected by the
pandemic as people were not travelling. By getting the news of vaccine has increases the hopes
of the tourism industry and by this it helps to grow in the markets of the UK. Domestic tourism
sector in the UK has started and this helps the tourism to sector to grow and gain the loss that
they have caused (Singh, Jamal and Ahmad, 2021). But the real recovery of the loss will only be
done when the international tourism returns. The survival of the travel and tourism is at the risk
and it can only be recovered with the help of government supports.
Recommendations
In order to overcome from the looses tar the tourism sector bears the industry must focus
on the following recommendations. These below recommendations will help the company to
increase the profitability and have the great come back in the market. The recommendations are
as follows:

1. It is recommended to the tourism and travel industry that they must restore the
confidence of the travellers.
2. It s also recommended to the tourism industry that they must promote the
domestic tourism which will help them to have the safe international tourism.
3. Further it is recommended to the company that they must measure and check the
profitability with the decreasing market gaps in the UK.
4. It is also suggested to the tourism industry that they must provide employment
opportunities to the people who get employed with the happening of the pandemic
(Baum and Hai, 2020).
5. At last, it is recommended to the industry that they must have the targeted
customers which maintains the revenue of the tourism sector.

CONCLUSION
From the above it is concluded about that the tourism sector of the UK has a great impact
and the sector is affected by this pandemic. By this it decreases the profitability of the tourism
industry. The report has evaluated about the impact of the COVID -19 on the tourism industry of
United Kingdom and recommendations to the tourism industry of UK. This will help the tourism
sector will grow in the present and n the coming years. This industry was safe by getting the
news of vaccine and has increases the hopes of the tourism industry. By this it helps to grow in
the markets of the UK and maintains the profitability of the tourism industry.

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