Hospitality, Leisure, and Travel Industry Challenges During COVID-19

This report examines the significant challenges that the hospitality, leisure, and travel industries faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights issues such as ensuring customer safety in the hospitality sector, maintaining market demand, and dealing with job losses and guest flow in the leisure industry. The travel industry faced transport bans and the difficulty of implementing social distancing measures. The conclusion emphasizes the widespread impact of the pandemic on organizational operations, offering a comprehensive overview of the challenges and effects on these interconnected sectors. Desklib provides access to similar reports and study tools for students.

Challenges of hospitality
leisure and travel industry
during covid 19 pandemic

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
CHALLENGES FACED BY VARIOUS INDUSTRIES...............................................................3
Hospitality Industry.....................................................................................................................3
Leisure Industry...........................................................................................................................3
Travel industry.............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Covid-19 has brought about various challenges that are in regard to the organisational context.
One may not be able to identify the choices that are in regard to covid-19 since it has evolved as
a greatest pandemic that has impacted and also have been one of the challenging atmosphere for
all the organisational purposes. This report will highlight the impacts that are being faced by the
organisation in regard to the covid-19 pandemic both positive as well as the negative.
CHALLENGES FACED BY VARIOUS INDUSTRIES
Hospitality Industry
Safety of customers: the safety of customers is regarded to be one of the prominent criteria that
will have to be dealt by the hospitality industry and this in regard to the pandemic is said to be
one of the challenging aspect that is being faced by many people (Gursoy and Chi, 2021). The
industries have brought about various measures and strategic operations in order to safeguard
people from the times of pandemic.
Market demand: covid-19 has left a challenge of the hospitality industry in order to safeguard
their market demand. This is because market demand is necessary in order to highlight that rises
as well as to gain reputation and therefore the organisations will have to probably enter
mechanism in order to safeguard their brand in the market.
Leisure Industry
Loss of jobs: the leisure industry has got a biggest challenge in order to safeguard the jobs
because of the pandemic. This has hit so hard that most of the people lost their jobs and are
mostly in to bring about their personal employment into consideration. This has become a
consequence of covid-19 that brought about a severe impact on this sector.
Significant flow of guests: the leisure industry has got significant flow of guest that is
resemblance of positivity during covid-19 (Kaushal and Srivastava, 2021). This is because
various restrictions were imposed for people who are travelling as well as the places that are
visiting therefore this particular entity has been into demand during this covid-19.
Travel industry
Transport ban: the transport ban is one of the important criteria as well as the biggest challenge
that is being faced by the travel industry during covid-19. This has been one of the enormous
conceptions that made people to lose their jobs as well as there has been a decline in the
economy.

Social distancing orders: for places that has got a limit of traveling criteria there are restrictions
like that of maintaining a social distancing between people which is one of the biggest challenge
to maintain (Kumar and et.al, 2021). The organisations were in a hurdle in order to derive their
measures to develop social distancing criteria at the places of visit.
CONCLUSION
The report conclusion highlighting the effects of covid-19 as well as the challenges that are being
edited by the organisation during the covid-19. This has brought about a clear picture of how far
the pandemic has affected and impacted the organisation at all levels of it operation.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Gursoy and Chi, 2021. Celebrating 30 years of excellence amid the COVID-19 pandemic—An
update on the effects of COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 vaccines on hospitality
industry: overview of the current situation and a research agenda.
Kaushal and Srivastava, 2021. Hospitality and tourism industry amid COVID-19 pandemic:
Perspectives on challenges and learnings from India. International Journal of Hospitality
Management. 92. p.102707.
Kumar and et.al, 2021. COVID-19 Impact on Leisure and Travel Industry: Psychological, Safety
and Governance Imperatives. In Virus Outbreaks and Tourism Mobility. Emerald
Publishing Limited.
Online
Challenges of hospitality leisure and travel industry during covid 19 pandemic: [Online].
Available through: < The Hospitality Industry in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic:
Current Topics and Research Methods (nih.gov) >
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