Analysis: The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Tourism Industry

This report examines the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global tourism industry. It details the effects of travel restrictions and border closures, leading to significant declines in international and local travel. The analysis explores the negative impacts on airlines, hotels, and restaurants, including financial losses, job cuts, and the need for increased sanitation measures. The report also addresses the decline in customer interest in travel due to health concerns and the resulting economic repercussions, emphasizing the importance of adapting to the changing landscape. The CARP model is used to evaluate the information presented. The study concludes with a summary of the detrimental effects and highlights the need for recovery strategies within the tourism sector.

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

restriction on the travelling along with international tourist. International tourist are the one who
are there able to provide high economic benefit the country where they are travelling. There was
due to banning of international borders and travelling was no allowed and due to this there was
no business for airlines which leads to stand on airport (Levin, 2020). This creates high
maintenance after reopening of travelling and due to this there was huge loss to the airlines.
There was high loss on the economy which was due to impact of pandemic. There was also loss
in the revenue of travelling and the major cause was that due to not having proper information
about the COVID-19, there were no any business or say very less business which was there in
travelling industry. To keep traveller safe there were taken different measure which can help
them to stay safe as much as possible. There was huge investment in relation to keep travellers
safe form the COVID-19 (Impact of COVID-19 on travel and tourism industry and ways
of recovery, (2021)).
Impact on Hotels and restaurants
Hotels and restaurants were so much impacted due to COVID-19 in tourism industry.
Hotel business is totally based on their service which should be better enough that customers
who are there can consume and get satisfied with their services. In service sector there was also
negative impact which is due to pandemic. There were no business for hotels and restaurants
which is due to not travel of people or tourist in town. This has created huge loss to the travelling
industry which was there only for attending and entertaining tourist by providing different
service for them to consume. To maintain distancing and creating crowd, there were different
measure have taken which can help to get better business (Impact Of Covid-19 On Tourism
Industry And Relief Measures, (2021)).
Interest for travelling in customer
Due to impact of COVID-19 there can seen that there are very less number of customer
interest in travelling and tourism. This is the one which is high effected the tourism industry in
which due to having fear of getting sick of COVID there are very less people who like to travel
and this fear leads to less number of customer for the tourism industry which is there in reason to
get loss in the profit. Due to impact of pandemic there was a time when people were to much
feared and no one was there who like to travel. This was able to lead for high loss in tourism
industry (Crushed by COVID-19, India's tourism sector can rebuild by renewing focus on
sustainable practices, (2021)).

High cost in sanitation
In tourism industry due to pandemic there is high need to sanitise their premises which is
in relation to provide safety against virus. In this, there is need of high expenditure there either in
travelling or there in hotel and restaurants. There is need to sanitise each and every place on
regular period of time which requires high cost along with time which is there for the
sanitisation. This increase in the cost due to sanitisation process, there are loss in the profit which
is there in business. Sanitisation is important and also time consuming process where there is
high requirement regarding safety of tourist and customers (COVID-19 and Tourism, (2021)).
CARP TEST
There are many of the methods for the evaluation of information in which CARP model
is one of the way to evaluate the information which is there available on the source based which
includes some criteria such like Currency, Authority, Relevance and Reliability. In relation to
this, there is mostly of the information is evaluated on the basis of relevance or reliability.
There is justification for use of different newspaper, articles and books which are able to
provide the accurate and better information about the impact of Covid over the tourism industry.
In this there is brief information about the impact of Covid on the travelling industry and on the
cost of sanitation (For hospitality and tourism sector, (2021)).
CONCLUSION
From above analysis, it can be conclude that there is high negative impact on the tourism
industry. In relation to this, there are very less customer base who are there like to travel which is
due to fear of pandemic but also there are some people who like to travel even the pandemic. In
this topic there is discussion about the negative impact of COVID on tourism industry which are
there have the high impact on economy of country. There is also discussion about the interest in
customer towards travelling, high cost for sanitisation, negative impact on travelling industry and
hotels and restaurants.

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