The Impact of COVID-19 on Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Tourism Enterprises: A Study on Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

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“…Social awareness needs to be created, and the government should arrange training programs for those businesses that use this platform effectively to boost their knowledge of online business. Social media promotion is relatively time and money-efficient, and this promotional method can hugely benefit almost all the Micro, Small, and Medium Tourism Enterprises in Bangladesh (Habiba, 2022). As most clients do their primary research on a tour program plan in SM, the existence of tourism businesses in social media can easily attract more tourists.…”

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Social Media Promotions of Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Implications for Bangladesh

2023

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Lately, the world has gotten rid of a massive outbreak of a deadly virus named COVID-19; the whole world was shut down for several months. Tourism was one of the most affected sectors by this epidemic. This industry needs a robust promotional strategy to get back in good shape. Nowadays, social media promotion has taken over traditional promotional methods. During the last two years, social media has had almost a billion new users, which is excellent news for all marketers who need to promote their commodities and services using this social media. Now that the world is returning to normal, social media promotion can be a game-changer for tourism. There are as many as 4.62 billion users of social media in the whole world (which is 58.4% of the world population). Again, the number is 49.55 million in Bangladesh. These users can be targeted for this type of promotion by the tourism operators in Bangladesh. With a rigorous search of secondary information, this research has attempted to examine social media's role in promoting tourism and hospitality services in the country.

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Social Media Promotions of Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Implications for Bangladesh

2023

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“…According to several studies, the government's SME aid initiatives are inadequate and lack understanding of the appalling state of these businesses [4]. [5]investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic can affect micro, small, and medium-sized tourist firms (MSMTEs) in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). Based on findings of the study in regression analysis, 7 out of 11 independent factors in whole effect of COVID-19 on SME firms had a substantial impact on the dependent variable.…”

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The Empirical Study on the Impact of the COVID-19 on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bangladesh

Rahman,

Bhuiyan,

Alam

2024

J. Inf. Syst. Informatics

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The large COVID-19 disease outbreak had a devastating impact on the entire world, with Bangladesh being one of the worst-affected nations. The epidemic worsened the situation of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in Bangladesh. The goal of this study is to examine the possibilities and difficulties faced by SMEs in Bangladesh's Rangpur district during the COVID-19 epidemic and the transition to the new normal. The research methodology combines an exploratory technique with a quantitative methodology. The study is designed on both primary and secondary data. Researchers collected data from 290 respondents from Rangpur District. The first finding of the study is that the most significant proportion of business is small enterprise which is 83.4 percentage. Lack of opportunities and business scope, there are less numbers of medium enterprise in the Rangpur district that is around 17%. Second one, opportunity of COVID-19, around 71% businesses have been improved financial condition by working capital in pandemic situation which is one the opportunity for SMEs. Moreover, commerce increase which is 40% of the respondents. Technological adaptation and E-commerce are the positive sides for improving socio-economic development for Rangpur district. challenge’soint of challenges view, COVID-19 on SMEs is the largest competition between business which is approximately 72% and total responses is 209 out of 290.

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The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Security, Environment and Social Vices: Global Perspectives

2022

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The Pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus 2019 has made the governments of both developed and developing countries introduce various restrictive mechanisms in an attempt to lessen the menace and its rapid spread, Nigeria is not an exception. In Nigeria, the Federal Government restricts interstate travel, locked all offices, closed all commercial markets, and imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the people. Security task forces were deployed across the country to enforce the restriction. Hence, this resulted in an increase in the rate of extortion and corruption among the security operatives, the volume of waste unrecycled was on the high side, ecotourism was affected as well as an increase in the occurrence of sexual assault, cyber fraud, abduction and other related vices in Nigeria. This article intends to review the security issues and social vices on the increase in Nigeria owing to the COVID 19 lockdown as well as provide possible solutions and prevent future occurrences.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Tourism Enterprises: A Study on Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

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Social Media Promotions of Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Implications for Bangladesh

Social Media Promotions of Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Implications for Bangladesh

The Empirical Study on the Impact of the COVID-19 on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bangladesh

The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Security, Environment and Social Vices: Global Perspectives

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