Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism and Hospitality Industries

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism and Hospitality industries worldwide...................................3
The role of WHO in making decision regarding rescheduling summer Olympics 2020............4
Determine the positive and negative impacts on the stakeholders pertaining to the
postponement of the event...........................................................................................................4
Determine the pros and cons to postponing versus cancelling the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.........5
Determine the marketing strategies for Tokyo Olympic 2020....................................................5
Evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on japan as tourist destination.............................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
This report covers the impact of COVID-19 on tourism and hospitality industries.
COVID-19 had the worst impact on hospitality, tourism and sports business which resulted
negative impact to them. This report covers impact tourism on tourism and hospitality, role of
WHO for decision making for rescheduling summer Olympics 2020, impacts of postponement of
the events, impact pf cancelling Tokyo Olympic 2020, marketing strategies of Tokyo Olympic
2020, impact of COVID-19 on Japan as tourist destination (Camilleri, 2018).
MAIN BODY
Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism and Hospitality industries worldwide
Hospitality and tourism industries includes hotel, restaurants, transportation services,
entertainment. These are the highest money making industries contributing to the world’s
economy. Due to COVID-19, tourism and hospitality industries have affected to the worst. On
the basis of the three pillars of sustainable tourism these impacts are defined as:
Social justice
Due to COVID-19, tourism business had both positive and negative social impacts, negative
impacts included that people were both able to travel and take services, which affected the
mental health of people. Whereas, positive impact included that the spread of viruses across
places were be reduced.
Economic development
Worldwide tourism business has affected due to COVID-19, the businesses have crashed due to
the global lockdown, people and tourist around the world were restricted to take to travel and go
out. Moreover, large number of people lost their jobs because of no revenues generated in
tourism industries (Higham, 2020).
Environmental integrity
Due to COVID-19, as different tourism and hospitality industries were shut down it led a
positive impact on the environment, with no pollution and building of manmade infrastructure
which led to positive impacts on the environment.