Review of the influences of COVID-19 pandemic on tourism

Abstract

COVID-19 has become a major global pandemic since Jan 2020, which has made a deep impact on tourism industry. There is ongoing research about how the tourism industry is impacted by this global crisis. Researchers have explored the ways to transform e-tourism during pandemic, a special opportunity for e-tourism. In addition, researchers had investigated how the disruption of tourism affects other industry, such as retail payments and wildlife conservation. They found that these two industries incurred loss due to the disruption of tourism to some extent and also gave some suggestions on recovery strategies. What’s more, researchers have investigated the condition of firms related to tourism and inferred that firms are hard to survive if crises lasted for more than four months without external support. At last, researchers have tried to find solutions for tourism industry to recover from the disruption. In comparison with the promotion of domestic travel, bridging travel and travel tech is more effective and highly recommended by researchers. It is meaningful and significant because tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries which is expected to be the key contributor of regaining socio-economic stability after the pandemic.

The spatial structure of domestic tourist trips of Polish residents in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic

“…Platforms such as Google Scholar already contain hundreds of articles on this topic (Gösling & Schweiggart, 2022). Within very little time, several reviews of the scientific research conducted to date on this issue were presented (Kumudumali, 2020;Zopiatis et al, 2020;Lin, 2021;Utkarsh & Sigala, 2021;Persson-Fischer & Liu 2021;Yang et al, 2021;Huang & Wang, 2022;Pahrudin et al, 2022, Viana-Lora & Nel-lo-Andreu, 2022. Many international organisations and institutions have also presented numerous reports containing analyses of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on tourist demand (Rogerson & Rogerson, 2021;Matczak & Szymańska, 2022).…”

“…In turn, the impact of the pandemic on domestic tourism is not uniform across the country: it is clearly differentiated between regions (Kowalska & Niezgoda, 2020;Widomski, 2020;Arbulu et al, 2021;Chiet & Razak, 2021;Gierczak-Korzeniowska et al, 2021;Lin, 2021;Falk et al, 2022;;Kugiejko & Żyto, 2022). So far, it has been noted that favouring tourist trips closer to home (Hall et al, 2020;Renaud, 2020;Bratić et al, 2021;Donaire et al, 2021) is resulting in a greater decline in travel between regions than within regions (Wu et al, 2022).…”