OUTBREAK OF SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19): IMPACT ON INTERNATIONAL TOURISM

Covid-19 is an infectious disease and it is spreading at uncontrollable pace worldwide. The global economy is affected by the outbreak of the pandemic as the world is on halt to safeguard the humanity. From the start of pandemic from Wuhan, China, Covid-19 has travelled a lot across all the international borders which forced the governments to shut down the country for almost weeks. As the other sectors, Tourism is one of the highly affected sector during Covid-19 as all the domestic borders within countries and internationals borders are sealed to secure the life of human identity. This has given an unimaginable threat to the tourism economy worldwide and may last for months or years under the fear of the disease. Airline, Railways, Hotels are the widely affected and there is a huge loss of revenues in the sector. It is also expected that millions of people will lose their jobs worldwide during this time. This is creating havoc on world's economies. This paper studies and highlights the impact of coronavirus (Covid-19) on travel and tourism and also suggests some recovery measures