IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

CONSEQUENCES OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES: A CONCEPTUAL BASED APPROACH

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Irshad Ali, Mohd Hammad Naeem, Waseem Alam, Nazar Ali, Dr Naghma Azhar

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The tourism and hospitality sector has been severely affected by the COVID-19 outbreak globally and resulted great changes in each and every sector. This pandemic has transformed the whole scenario of the tourism and hospitality industry across the world. However, the aim of the present study is to investigate the factors influencing the tourism industry from diverse perspectives. This study reflects the widespread outcomes of the pandemic along with the strategies to cope with them. The nature of the study is the conceptual-based and descriptive approach. The findings of the study reflect that COVID-19 made the industry very weak and leave on ventilator. In contrast, some prospects came into the limelight by which the tourism industry might grow as earlier. Some technological and environmental reforms also took place during the pandemic. Moreover, some new forms like virtual tourism have also come to light during the pandemic period to reform the industry. Hence, this study reports all the dimensions related to tourism and COVID-19.

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