The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Tourism Industry and What Kind of Future this Industry will be Led to

Abstract

In a strongly connected and integrated world, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has become increasingly severe since the outbreak, especially on the tourism industry. In this paper, we first discuss the severity of the epidemic and how severely the accommodation industry and the transportation industry (especially the international aviation industry), two main parts of the tourism industry, were impacted by the epidemic. Then, we describe how these two industries have recovered from the epidemic and evaluate their methods and other possible recovery methods. Lastly, we discuss the possible future of these two industries based on some main influencing factors in the world.