How Tourism Is Affected By COVID 19 In 2021

The person who travels different places for various purpose or objectives is called tourist.people who travel from his origin place to another place to study culture,tradition, religious, historical, natural or man-made things that provide him/her entertainment and spends some money is tourist and this process  or activities are called tourism .  

Tourist at sea 

Tourism is recognised as an important sector in the context of economic development.  It is because,  this sector is one of the major source of earning foreign currency and provides number of employment opportunities for domestic people.  Tourism is very helpful for economic development of a nation .  

 

Tourist watching natural beauty 

• Roles/Importance of tourism in the economic development 

 

  -  Source of foreign exchange, 

 It provides significant contribution in earning of foreign currency.  

 

- Employment Generation , 

Employment opportunities are increased with the help of tourism.  It provides employment opportunities to both developed and developing countries.  

- Production of handicraft items , 

 There is direct relationship between production of handicraft items and tourism. The foreign tourist prefer to use thelhandicraft items such as hand made cap sweater gift items etc which helps in economic development. 

- worldwide publicity,

Tourism helps to know the nation worldwide.it gives identification of any natio n.

-Improvement in rural infrastructure, 

Maximum tourist spend time in remote areas of the nation .as we know, in order to develop the tourism sector in those area, development of infrastructure such as transportation, communication and electricity is necessary. So, it helps in development of infrastructure in rural area.

-Increase in manpower, 

Tourism sector requires various types of skilled and semi- skilled manpower. Various institution involves in producing such manpower. So, development in tourism sector increase the human resource of the country. 

-Promotion of culture,

It promotes the culture of any country by interaction among different countries people. It helps to learn the culture, tradition,norms and values of other country.

●Prospects of tourism sector 

-natural beauty

-Historical and religious places 

-Cultural diversity 

-variation in season

-Places of recreation 

Natural view

• Effects Of COVID 19 On Tourism  

COVID 19 affected the people of both developed and developing countries of the world.  People suffered and till now suffering varius problems due to COVID 19 . It directly affected the living style of the people of the world.  Besides this international as well as domestic flights were cancelled.  

Aeroplane 

It affected the production of industrial goods and services such as textile products,  Automobile production , etc . COVID 19 is seems to be very harmful for the world in  terms of health as well as economic development and it also affected the employment sector . Due to COVID 19 many people have to loss their jobs for various reasons including personal as well as professional.  People of the world faces many problems due to COVID 19 ,they spend their time hardly in the period of COVID 19 pandemic.  Corona is emersed as dangerous problem for the world in unexpected way . Many people loss their life due to lack of proper treatment by the health workers in spite of their efforts in other diseases also . People feels difficulty to admit in hospital, if he/she suffered any other diseases also . People have been facing problem while working in companies, factories, etc due to corona guidelines.  It compelled people to live at their homes . 

COVID 19 guideline  

Government has no any other option despite of imposing lock down . So people were not able to travel to different places . Hence tourism sector are highly affected  . Many hotels , restaurants were convertedinto isolation centers as well as special health centers . Many tourism destination were closed,  people feared to travel because of highly spreading capacityof coronavirus . 

According to the UNWTO , The decline in the first ten months of the year represents 900 million fewer international tourist arrival compared to the same period in 2019 , and translates into a loss of US $ 935 billion in export revenues from international tourism more than ten times the loss in 2009 under the impact of global economic crisis.  

According to UNWTO , international arrivals to decline by 70-72% for the whole of 2020 as well as international tourism expected to decline over 70% in 2020 back to level of 30 years ago .  It is expected to return the previous condition it might take one and half year ,if vaccine discovered early of year 2021  .