Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism Industry

EFFECT OF COVID-19
ON TOURISM
INDUSTRY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
What is tourism industry.............................................................................................................3
COVID-19 and tourism industry................................................................................................3
Impact on Travelling industry.....................................................................................................3
Impact on Hotels and restaurants................................................................................................4
Interest for travelling in customer ..............................................................................................4
High cost in sanitation.................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
TOURSIM industry refers to the travel industry where different type of people travel to
other location either due to some cause or for enjoy their time. Tourism industry is one of the
largest industry which is there in the world. They are the one which is able to raise the economy
of any country. Due to pandemic there is high impact on this industry (Feyisa, 2020).
MAIN BODY
What is tourism industry
This is the industry which is there all over the world and where people goes and enjoy
their time along with either for their quality time or for different reasons like business meeting,
sports etc. This is wide ranging industry in which there is inclusion of transport industry, hotel
industry and many more industries. This is the only one industry which is able to attract different
people form different place and to spend for getting services and helps in to raise the economy of
that country. In this there is generally inclusion of hotel industry and travelling industry where
service plays an important role. There is high impact on the tourism industry due to impact of
COVID-19 (Baulch, 2020).
COVID-19 and tourism industry
There are different negative impact which is there due to COVID-19. In this, there are
many of impact which are there discussed further. Closing of borders, tourism and banning of
travelling, declining international tourist, airlines failures, negative impact on tourism revenues
and safety etc. are some of the negative impact on the tourism industry due to COVID-19. There
was also major impact on the restaurants and hotels where there needed to keep their premises
very clean and sanitised which was due to taking different measures for keeping safe to their
customers during dinning or staying (Srivastava and Agarwal, 2020).
Impact on Travelling industry
Due to impact of COVID-19, there was closing of borders which creates the problem in
travelling form one place to another place. In relation to this there was also problem during the
local travelling. This leads to many problem and high loss of tourism industry which was not
getting business due to impact of COVID-19. For the safety of tourist travelling was ban which
creating loss in business and due to this also there was loss of job. During this, there was also