Current Issues in Tourism and their Impact on Post COVID

Current Issues In Tourism
and their impact on Post
COVID

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
Concept and theories of tourism..................................................................................................3
Current issue of tourism...............................................................................................................5
Impact of COVID on tourism......................................................................................................7
Post COVID impact on tourism...................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. It is service providing
industry which makes sure to provide best services to customers. Different companies in this
industry work differently according to their strategies and objectives. There are various kinds of
issues faced by tourism company like high taxes, security issues, high maintenance of hotels,
searching customers globally and convincing them to use their services and many others. It is
essential to analyse current trends and customer’s behaviour in this industry to get higher success
in growth. Advanced technology also plays an essential role in the development of hospitality
sector (Öberg, 2021). Covid 19 pandemic impacted badly upon hospitality industry because
every company restricted to the entry of any outsider to break the chain of this disease. During
this period traveller spends their time at home. There is a major fall down in the growth and
revenue earned by hospitality sector during Covid 19. The following file covers concept and
theories of tourism, current issues of tourism industry, impact of Covid 19 pandemic on tourism
industry and condition of tourism industry after Covid 19 pandemic (Post covid).
Concept and theories of tourism
Travelling activities is done for a particular purpose like having official meetings,
spending weekends for fun and many others. Travellers are the customers of hospitality industry
which comprises of many sectors like food and beverages sector, accommodations, events and
many more. Tourism is the activities which concern to travel from one place to another for
different purposes. Tourism can be defined to travel from one country to other country and it also
includes travelling within a single country. The customer in this industry is called visitors or
guest for the hotels. There are three types of tourism which is defined below-
 Domestic tourism- It includes all those travelling activities of a traveller which take
place within their home country. For example in case UK customer travels all tourism
places of UK itself and stays in hotels and enjoy the weekend within UK then it is a
domestic tourism. Most of the hotels provide discounts for their domestic customers
(Chica, and et.al., 2021).
 Inbound tourism- It includes all those activities which is performed by a visitor of
outside country who visited in a country for specific purpose. These type of visitors are

non residential of that country. For example in case Indian family visited to UK for
spending their vacation then it is called inbound tourism for UK.
 Outbound tourism- It includes all activities which are done by a residential customer at
outside the country. When an individual of a country visited to other place for travelling
purpose then it is outbound tourism for traveller’s country. It can be understood easily
with an example. For example a person from UK travels to Australia for business
meeting then he is performing outbound tourism activities for UK.
Tourism products-
Tourism industry are having various kind of products which are categorized below-
 Accommodation- It include guest house, self catering, bed, home stay, camping and
many more.
 Hospitality- It includes food and beverages, cafe, clubs and etc.
 Transport services- It is the service by which a traveller should travel from one country
to another. It includes roads, water, air, rail and few more.
Theories of Tourism-
There are various kinds of models and theories of tourism and few of them are explained below-
Butler’s Model- The cycle of evolution of tourism resort:
This model is also called Butler’s development cyclic model which states that tourism carrying
capacity and sustainability is essential (Ou and Wong, 2020). It is essential that hospitality sector
activities will be managed properly because a little mistake to provide better facility to customer
will provide a big loss to hotel like low brand image. This model has 6 stages which state the
evolution of tourism resort. The stages of this model are explained below-
1. The exploration stage- Here, it considers a small number of tourists which are based on
primary tourism attraction. In this stage hotels did not pay must attention to their local
residential.
2. The involvement stage- Here, local residential get involvement in tourism activities of a
country. Guest houses are made in this stage. Hotel owners put pressure on government
to develop transpiration condition for travellers.
3. The development stage- In these stage hotels and other sectors in hospitality industry
pay attention on advertising their products and services. During this time local residential