WORLD TOURISM, SEVERELY AFFECTED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The present pandemic COVID-19 has resulted in global challenges, economic and healthcare crises, and posed spillover impacts on the global industries, including tourism and travel that the major contributor to the service industry worldwide. The tourism and leisure industry has faced the COVID-19 tourism impacts hardest-hit and lies among the most damaged global industries. The leisure and internal tourism indicated a steep decline amounting to 2.86 trillion US dollars, which quantified more than 50% revenue losses. This paper explores the consequences and settings of the COVID-19 pandemic and how innovation and change can contribute to the tourism industry's revival to the next normal and explore the direct COVID-19 tourism impacts, attitudes, and practices in gaining the leisure industry's boom and recovery.

Keywords

• travel risks
• covid-19 impacts
• sustainability
• mental health