Economic impacts of COVID-19 on the tourism sector in Tanzania

Tourism, job vulnerability and income inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic: A global perspective

“…Further, the OECD (2020) estimated that 6.6–11.7 million tourism workers are at risk in the European region. For individual countries, a reduction in tourism led to 3.3%–3.6% job losses in Australia ( Pham, Dwyer, Su, & Ngo, 2021 ), 1.7–2.7 million jobless in Japan ( Kitamura, Karkour, Ichisugi, & Itsubo, 2020 ) and 2.1%–6.4% losses of employment in Greece ( Mariolis, Rodousakis, & Soklis, 2020 ), or 24% reduction of tourism jobs in Tanzania ( Henseler, Maisonnave, & Maskaeva, 2022 ). All international agencies, including the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), and the International Labour Organization (ILO) however have indicated that this pandemic has generated asymmetrical influences on the working population with women, youth, and the low-income group being mostly affected.…”

Tourism-induced poverty impacts of COVID-19 in Indonesia

“…The World Bank (2021) reports a 3.5% contraction in the global economy for 2020. Sharp declines in individual economies around the world are also noted in Australia ( Pham, Dwyer, Su, & Ngo, 2021 ); African countries ( Ataguba, 2020 ), Tanzania ( Henseler, Maisonnave, & Maskaeva, 2022 ); the United States of America ( del Rio-Chanona et al, 2020 ; Muellbauer, 2020 ), and a wide range of developed and developing countries ( Fernandes, 2020 ; Maliszewska et al, 2020 ; McKibbin & Fernando, 2020 ).…”

Economic impacts of COVID-19 on inbound and domestic tourism

“…The majority of these focus on a single country. For instance, of the peer-reviewed published papers, Deriu, Cassar, Pretaroli, and Socci (2021) focuses on Sardinia, Henseler et al (2022) on Tanzania, Wang et al (2022) on China, Malahayati, Toshihiko, and Lukytawati (2021) on Indonesia and Pham et al (2021) on Australia.…”

“…Their estimate of the direct shock to tourism spending is calculated from a Tourism Satellite Account, which then becomes the disturbance modelled in the computable general equilibrium framework. Henseler et al (2022) explore how various international channels of transmission, including a drop in inbound tourism, could affect the Tanzanian economy.…”

“…Of the growing literature to date that use computable general equilibrium modelling to analyse the economy-wide impact of COVID-related changes in tourism, two key papers are Pham, Dwyer, Su, and Ngo (2021) and Henseler, Maisonnave, and Maskaeva (2022) . Both these papers are mostly concerned with changes in inbound arrivals (i.e., trips and spending associated with non-residents of those areas).…”