Volume 6, Issue 9, September – 2021 International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology

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Effect of Corona Pandemic on Hospitality and

Tourism Industry
*Vankdoth. Praveen Kumar
Assistant Professor, KL University vijayawada
**Kalyan Sarkar Assistant Professor LPU, Punjab

Abstract:- Due to the corona pandemic the world hotel till further government assistance and few property
economy has effected a lot when comes to the tourism will be bankruptcy or sell by the end of 2020. (AHLA) has
and hospitality industry. This industry has effected conducted the survey with the hotel owners employees and
much than other industry. As a result their was a huge operators they states that 1.63% of the hotels have lost their
loss which cannot be over come for up coming 10years full time working staff 2.52%reported that the hotels will be
this research paper addresses two important concerns shutdown without any additional aid.
first and most related to the problem that the hotels are
facing now-a-days and second is learning of the industry III. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
operations. The study of this paper discusses both the
industry and education sector the main concept of this Hotel industry is the one of the first most effected
paper is to evolving the corona pandemic on hospitality industry by the COVID-19 and also this will be the last
industry. industry to recover their losses and rehire their workers for
fulltime. Comparing the occupancy percentage with last year
Keywords:- Business Impact on Travel & Tourism, Impact it was 68.2%and this year it was 44% and in urban market it
on Jobs in Hospitality, Qualitative, SARS, Themes. COVID- is just 34% from 80% last year. This research states that
19. 72% of the customers are not willing to travel in their
holidays mean while business $group travel customers are
I. INTRODUCTION not expected to return to peak 2019 until 2023 this is the
challenges to the hospitality industry during public health
The new year 2020 started with an unexpected crisis.
occurrence of new disease and it is called Corona Virus
(COVID-19) from the past 30 years that the world has never IV. BUSINESS IMPACT ON TRAVEL & TOURISM
experienced with such diseases. in the year of 2019
December 31 at the place of wuhan Hubei province in china Due to the COVID -19 tourist has unprecedented
has been effected with some unknown disease china has travel restrictions, the international tourism will be come
found unnamed disease in their country which spreading to down from 20% to 30% when compare with the last year
each other so china has informed to the World Health 2019 this is exported by the united nations world tourism
Organization(WHO) in the year of January 2020 this organization. this is the best time to think how tourism can
unknown new virus was identified and named 2019 and interact with our society and other economic sector and our
named as the novel corona virus. This virus has named as natural resources and ecosystem . To over come all the loses
the “COVID-19” corona virus on 2019 by WHO feb 2020. during the pandemic.

WHO has suggested that the world wide coordinated All the small scale and large scale businesses are
efforts and need to stop the further spread by giving the facing size challenges, especially the small industry this
awareness among the prople about the virus and advise to industry has the threat of loss of revenue and job for the
maintain the social distance between the people to break the small and medium enterprise businesses operation is very
chine spread of the virus who said that it aims to slow difficult.
transmission of COVID-19 during a global pandemic
Business In India:
II. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY In india this COVID-19 has effected mostly to the
hospitality and tourism industry. Hospitality experts has said
Due to COVID -19 there are travel restrictions in many that small hotel companies will face a revenue generating
countries. A research if American Hotel and Lodging problem due to this pandemic and become weaker. In the
Association states that hotel industry will continue to face month of march large number of cancellations has been
the problems of job loss till further government COVID-19 taken in the corporate, in the segments of 2and 3 tier city
relief hotels revenue has become very less and some of the hotels
has been closed in this two tiers city some local start-up
Nearly 77% of the hotels have reported that they have hotels has been closed completely. the situation of the
forced to layoff workers and 47% are forced to close the international hotels in India is they have removed their

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employees due to no hotel business and lack of revenue Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS):
generating . SARS is a viral disease which is associated with the
COVID-19 it has first identified in the year of 2003feb in
In Europe: china and later it spread all over the country this virus
This research has identified that due to the pandemic spread through small droplets of saliva, cold .it also effect
the Europe country could make the losses of 33% this was by touching the surface who is effected with this virus
made by the government but some of the industry experts mostly it effected with the age group of 25-70 and suspected
has attempted to reduce the efforts of global hotel industry cases where 15years who identified that SARS cases around
and declined the profit of 11-29% which includes the cafes, 3%.
bars and hotels all this profit declined because of spread of
the virus that hotel employers believe that they could make V. CONCLUSION
losses of 33%due to pandemic make by the government but
some organization tried to reduce the effort on globel hotel This research provides the study of effect of corona
industry to decline the profit of 11-29% which includes bars, pandemic on hospitality industry. As the tourism and
cafes, and hotels all this was declined due to the spread of hospitality industry has effected much the experts of this
the virus. industry , students, scholars and educators should come
forward to have a research to examine the factors that can be
In China: drive back the hospitality
China is the first and most effected country by this
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