Impacts of Tourism: COVID-19's Effects on Social, Cultural, Environmental, and Economic Aspects

Impacts of tourism

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Social impact:.........................................................................................................................3
Cultural impact:......................................................................................................................3
environmental impact:............................................................................................................4
Economic impact:...................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Tourism is considered as one of the fastest growing industry and recently it has been
affected due to outbreak of COVID-19. This virus has created a huge impact on people as well as
different industries. Due to this virus, people are not able to travel two different places as they
are not allowed to step out of their houses which results in impacting the ignore me, public
services and many more. London is taken as the destination. London is the most populous city
off the United Kingdom as its location is along the Thames River. In this report it covers the
impact of COVID-19 on social, cultural, environmental and economic aspects.
Social impact:
The COVID-19 has a huge impact on lives of people, unpredicted challenge to the health
services, food system and working of the world. Millions of companies face an unpredictable
cases, people were at risk of losing their jobs as well as people have lost the productive assets.
The lockdown was implemented on 23rd March, 2020 in the UK in which people were not
allowed to step out of their houses because of the pandemic situation. People were quarantined
into their homes as well as fear of contracting the virus (Ahrens and Ferry, 2020). This virus
affects the population in a large number, leading to the uncertainty about the disease, people
were helplessness and many more dramatic consequences were present. People were facing lot of
stress during this time and tend to form a suicidal behaviour as they have a feeling of angriness
which has almost affected the lives of everyone. Health workers were trying their best as they
were also at a risk of developing various symptoms such as burnout syndrome emotionally and
physically exhaustion and so on.
Cultural impact:
COVID-19 has impacted the tourism industry along with the entertainment industry. As
there was lockdown in UK, all industries were shutdown. These includes events such as the
UK’s largest LGBT pride festival was to be held on 27 June but due to this pandemic it was
postponed and then cancel later on. Along with this, BBC Radio cancels their big weekend music
festival which was scheduled at the end of May. Along with this various musicians such as Avril
Lavigne, Chris Martin of Coldplay were also postponed and cancelled their tours and instead
they live streamed performance on social medias (Dowson, 2020). The people who had book the