scholarly journals The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impacts on Tourism Business in a Developing City: Insight from Vietnam

Economies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Da Van Huynh ◽  
Thuy Thi Kim Truong ◽  
Long Hai Duong ◽  
Nhan Trong Nguyen ◽  
Giang Vu Huong Dao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Sharp Drop ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Accommodation Sector ◽  
Tourism Enterprises ◽  
Tourism Economy ◽  
Number Of Customers

The COVID-19 pandemic has generally destroyed the global tourism industry and threatened the recovery of destinations in developing countries facing more challenges from increasingly serious waves of the pandemic. Although many studies have attempted to measure the general impacts of COVID-19, very little research has been conducted to assess its overall impact on specific tourism destinations throughout many waves of the pandemic. This research aims to explore how a tourism economy in a developing country context has been damaged after many waves of COVID-19. A typical emerging city in Vietnam experiencing three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic was selected as a case study. The study recruited 40 representatives of tourism-related organizations for in-depth interviews, while 280 questionnaires were distributed to participants from different tourism organizations. The findings indicate that the majority of tourism businesses in the examined case study seriously suffered from the pandemic, and very few tourism-related enterprises were able to recover after the first wave of infection. Unfortunately, the tourism business sectors were found to be on the brink of bankruptcy or facing permanent shutdown after the third wave. All tourism enterprises generally appeared to experience a sharp drop in the number of customers, tourism revenue, service facilities and exploitation, as well as employee downsizing, but the degree of downturn differed among the examined enterprises. Among the tourism enterprises, travel agencies and the accommodation sector were found to suffer the greatest economic losses compared to other stakeholders. In general, the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the tourism business in Vietnam is a big concern, which may require a timely economic policy response and financial scheme to better support local enterprises in coping with the challenges during post-pandemic recovery.

scholarly journals The challenges of developing small tourism enterprises in townships: case of Umlazi, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-205
Author(s):  
Nsizwazikhona Simon Chili ◽  
Simiso Lindokuhle Mabaso
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Tourism Enterprises ◽  
Township Tourism ◽  
Tourism Economy

Township tourism in South Africa has grown in popularity since 1994 and is considered by some researchers to be an appropriate mechanism for stimulating local economic development. Opportunities for the development of black-owned enterprises in South Africa began for the first time when the country integrated into the global tourism economy after many years of international sanctions. The growth of township tourism thus can provide the context for potential economic opportunities for local entrepreneurs to enter the business, an activity that traditionally has been the domain of established white South African entrepreneurs. The main objective of the study is to present findings on the challenges that face a certain group of small tourism enterprises in townships with more attention being specifically paid to Umlazi as the second biggest township in the Southern hemisphere. The main reason for the choice of the study is due to the fact that there is only a limited literature that explores the conditions of small-scale and informal tourism entrepreneurs operating in South Africa’s black townships. The focus falls upon the challenges of developing small tourism entrepreneurs for black owners in the township, especially because South African tourism industry is highly concentrated and dominated by small elite group of large, mostly locally owned, tourism organizations which drive the tourism economy that unfortunately excludes and sidelines that of the townships

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON MARKET CAPITAL ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE TOURIST INDUSTRY: EXPERIENCE OF THE EU AND OTHER COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-121
Author(s):  
M. Troian ◽  
V. Shkola ◽  
M. Domashenko ◽  
T. Makarenko
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
World Order ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Government Support ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Tourism Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism industry faced a crisis that could be the worst in history. In recent years, the tourism industry has been one of the fastest-growing industries, sometimes faster than the world economy as a whole. 2019 has brought unprecedented changes to the world order, affecting all socio-ecological and economic ties. What are the consequences of and will have global tourism in connection with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which countries and regions of the world will suffer the greatest losses, what threatens and what are the benefits of the tourism crisis that will bring a "new order" to the tourism industry, what innovative management anti-crisis measures should be applied by world governments and non-governmental organizations to overcome the unprecedented tourism crisis - all these issues remain acute and have identified the research topic. The paper examines the methodological developments and recommendations for overcoming the tourism crisis in Europe caused by the pandemic virus COVID-19, namely, the article identifies the basics and consequences of the pandemic impact on market capital on the example of tourism in Europe and the world, shows that the global tourism industry is one of the main factors in the formation of market capital, studied market capital as a component of intellectual capital on the example of tourism in the EU, outlined the prospects for global tourism, developed a system of measures to overcome the global crisis through tourism SWOT-analysis. Namely: enhanced multilateral cooperation and strong support are important for the resumption of tourism; the speed of adaptation of governments at all levels and the private sector involved in the tourism sector and the ability to respond quickly and adapt to the crisis; providing targeted and affordable government support as quickly and efficiently as possible for vulnerable tourism enterprises, workers and tourists; ensuring policy clarity and taking measures to limit uncertainty; invention and development of more sustainable and sustainable (socio-ecological-economic) models of tourism; development of tourism education and legislation.

Renting Cars and Trucks

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Bayram Akay
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Rental Sector ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Car Rental ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Number Of Customers ◽  
Day By Day

Tourism is a fragmented and information-oriented sector covering tour operators, travel agencies, hotel sales representatives, associations, meeting offices, transportation, car rental, airlines, cruise, souvenirs, restaurants, hotels/motels, and entertainment. The car rental sector, which is an important part of the tourism sector, is growing day by day, and the number of customers is increasing rapidly. The success of the car rental sector, which produces support services within the growing tourism sector, is considered very important for the development of tourism. The COVID-19 pandemic has engulfed the globe and has already had an enormous impact on life as we once knew it. With airplanes grounded, millions of people in quarantine, and hundreds of travel bans in place, COVID-19 has brought the global tourism industry to a grinding halt along with the rental industry. The study determines the current situation of the car rental sector and presents some suggestions.

Circular Economy Perspective Research Wanlu Lake Eco-Tourism Industry Gathering Area for Innovation and Development

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 2301-2309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Scale Economy ◽  
Industrial Scale ◽  
Regional Tourism ◽  
Ecological Barrier ◽  
Tourism Economy ◽  
Innovation And Development

As an innovative form of tourism industry transformation, Eco-tourism Industry Gathering Area is beneficial to tourism industrial scale economy, rich regional tourism brands, promote local tourism economy. In this paper, Case Study Wanlu lake Eco-tourism industry Gathering area is ecological barrier of Guangdong Province, analyze the development of Eco-tourism industry, and Analysis the circular economy, ecology, Wisdom Tour, put forward of Eco-tourism innovative and development .

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on Tourism: A Case Study of Lumbini, Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Bhim Bahadur Kunwar
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
World Health ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

This research aims to discover and present the impacts of COVID-19 in tourism in the context of Lumbini and its premises. As COVID-19 spread globally, it has created many challenges in health and security, daily lives, the national economy, and the global tourism industry. The COVID-19 outbreak has been considered as the most challenging tragedy that occurred in the world after the 2nd world war. The World Health Organization (WHO) had listed Nepal also as a country with a high-risk zone of COVID-19.The travel restriction and nationwide lock-down implemented by many countries including Nepal have resulted in a stranded traveler’s movement. As the consequences ticket reservation, flight services, transportation, hotel, and restaurants were closed and several job losses were registered in the tourism sector. The negative effects like fear, threat, frustration, and losing the confidence of tourism entrepreneurs appeared. This has brought changes in the tourists’ behavior and their motivation to travel for the next few years. In Lumbini businesses like lodges, hotels, restaurants, and travel offices were also severely affected by the pandemic. Thus, the tourism sector has been facing serious threats due to the prolonged lockdown and closing of tourism activities than the terror of COVID-19 itself.

scholarly journals “Culture” a Panacea for Brand Survival: Feasibility Analysis of Zimbabwe Tourism Destination

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Farai Chigora ◽  
Promise Zvavahera
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Dress Code ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Destination Branding ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Accommodation Sector ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality

The study investigated culture as one the strategies that can be used to enhance survival of Zimbabwe tourism brand. This is because like other African tourism destinations, Zimbabwe is rich in unique traditional culture but failing to improve its global tourism brand identity. The study was based on a mixed methods research design combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches in collecting data from respondents. The qualitative method was used to find out the most crucial variables that contribute to culture identity in Zimbabwe tourism destination. This was done through in-depth interviews with the experts and managers in the tourism industry. The responses showed that the most common sources of culture identity are beliefs and norms, national dress code, galleries and heritage, originality in values and language. These variables were then investigated on their effect to Zimbabwe tourism destination branding using survey questionnaires as quantitative research instruments. The respondents for the questionnaires were from the travel sector, accommodation sector, resorts, Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality, Zimbabwe Tourism Authority, Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Environment. The results of the study show that national dress code is the most important source for Zimbabwe tourism cultural branding followed by galleries and heritages and originality in values. The study therefore recommended these three as the most core source for branding Zimbabwe tourism destination using culture. The other variables which are language, beliefs and norms have been regarded as supporting cultural factors and a model was designed to show the relationships.

scholarly journals Decoupling and decomposition analysis on the CO2 emissions of tourism industry: A case study of Hainan

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 04042
Author(s):  
Yong Yang ◽  
Junsong Jia ◽  
Chunyan Liu ◽  
Duanqian Mao
Keyword(s):  
Energy Use ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Intensity Effect ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions ◽  
Tourism Economy

Currently, little attention was paid to the tourism’s CO2 emission (CE) at province level. Thus, taking Hainan as a case, we computed this province’s CE, and analyzed the relationship between Hainan’s tourism economy and its CE, and the drivers of the CE. The results showed that Hainan’s tourism CE increased rapidly from 99.88×104 t in 2001 to 475.07×104 t in 2015. Particularly, Tourism transport always accounted for the largest proportion of tourism CE (more than 74%). Moreover, Hainan presented a holistic weak decoupling (0.68) during 2001-2015. But the decoupling rate was only 57.14%. Thus, Hainan still has much potential to improve the energy-use efficiency of tourism industry for accelerating the decoupling process. In addition, the effect of population was the dominant driver to promote Hainan’s tourism CE followed by expenditure size effect with the contribution rates of 132.52% and 11.78%, respectively. Whereas energy intensity effect played the most primary role in inhibiting CE followed by industrial structure effect, and their contribution rates were -38.65% and -5.58%, respectively. Last, based on these results above, some reasonable countermeasures and suggestions are proposed.

scholarly journals The Role of Health Resort Enterprises in Health Prevention during the Epidemic Crisis Caused by COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Adam R. Szromek
Keyword(s):  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Health Resort ◽  
Asymptomatic Patients ◽  
Tourism Enterprises ◽  
Tourism Economy ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced or even temporarily halted tourism worldwide. The lack of tourists has huge consequences not only for the tourism industry, but also for the tourism economy. Health tourism enterprises are also affected by this problem, but their situation is somewhat different from other tourism enterprises, as the relationship of these enterprises with the healthcare system provides an opportunity to continue operations, albeit in a different role than the tourism function. The diagnostic objective of this article is to assess the impact of the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus on the activities of tourism and medical tourism enterprises operating in spa destinations after 12 months of the pandemic situation. The cognitive objective, on the other hand, is to identify the roles that these companies play in reducing the impact of epidemic risks. The article presents the results of the research conducted in 19 tourism and medical companies, covering 115 sanatorium facilities, run in Polish health spas. The results indicate that although their economic situation is difficult, it is at the same time stable. Two reasons in particular stand out: (1) financial support from government anti-crisis programs; and (2) implementation of rapid organizational changes that enable the implementation of epidemiological prevention tasks, relieving the burden on infectious diseases hospitals by operating an isolation center, a vaccination center, or a quarantine facility for asymptomatic patients. This use of tourism infrastructure contributes to promoting it as open innovation in tourism.

scholarly journals Application of Fuzzy Logic to Evaluate the Economic Impact of COVID-19: Case Study of a Project-Oriented Travel Agency

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9602
Author(s):  
Gergő Thalmeiner ◽  
Sándor Gáspár ◽  
Ákos Barta ◽  
Zoltán Zéman
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Travel Agency ◽  
Organization Performance ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Tourism Enterprises

The aim of the study is to create a performance evaluation controlling model to evaluate the performance of tourism enterprises as a function of the economic effects of COVID-19. As a result of the significant change in demand resulting from the economic environment, expectations and cyclicality caused by the pandemic, the assessment of organization performance has become subjective. Under these changed environmental conditions, most of the methods used by tourism companies to evaluate performance are not effective enough. In our research, we illustrated a controlling model based on fuzzy logic through a case study. By applying the model, it becomes possible to evaluate project-oriented tourism organizations according to different standardized norms. Our model considers the subjectivity derived from measurability and goal setting. We point out that the performance of organizations operating in the tourism industry significantly influenced by COVID-19 can be subjectively assessed during the pandemic period and thus depends on the analytical context. By evaluating the performance of tourism organizations along internal organizational goals, more relevant information content and more informed managerial decision support can be achieved.

China's Tourism Crisis During the Pandemic: New Approaches and Transformation of «Zero-COVID-19» Policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Yekaterina Zaklyazminskaya
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Vaccination Campaign ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Incentive Policy ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
Tourism Enterprises ◽  
Domestic Tourist

In 2020-2021 the global tourism sector was undergoing profound transformations. Global lockdowns and border closures, restrictions on the movement of citizens have led to a recession in the tourism industry and to long-term negative consequences for the global economy. The pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of the sector, insufficient government support, excessive fragmentation and a lack of experience in effectively dealing with new risks and threats. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, China was a key global tourism power. In the fight against coronavirus infection, the country has chosen a “zero COVID-19” strategy. However, the return to the “bamboo curtain” policy and the closure of borders did not lead to complete stagnation of the sector. The gradual liberalization of domestic tourist travel, the lifting of bans on the first outbound travel of citizens in the Macau SAR, discussion of vaccine diplomacy issues, and the high pace of the vaccination campaign will open a new page in the development of the tourism sector in the country. During the fight against the pandemic, Beijing has not implemented an incentive policy aimed at increasing the number of domestic tourist travel. The recovery of the sector proceeded at a slow pace due to the forced need to coordinate the activities of tourism enterprises with the “zero COVID -19” policy. Using the analysis of statistical data and regulatory legal acts of 2020-2021, the author traces the evolution of approaches to controlling the spread of the pandemic in the tourism industry and analyzes the trends that have emerged. The study proves that in China there are no contradictions between two opposite concepts: “zero COVID-19” approach and the strategy of “coexistence with the virus”.

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