COVID-19 Attack on the World\'s Tourism Industry

Abstract

Humanity faces a pandemic crisis every centuary. A new disease, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was recognized in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019. With its quick spread inside and outside of China, during the succeeding months (1, 2), Covid-19 was announced a public health emergency of global concern by The World Health Organization (WHO), called Covid-19 pandemic (3). Almost all countries had confirmed cases, more than 2 milion deaths, and a drastically growing number of suspected cases by April 21, 2020 (4).

Keywords

• tourism
• medical tourism
• coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19)
• tourism industry