Tourism Industry in Russia and Global Covid-19 Pandemic: Threats, Counteractions, Trends

The present paper is dedicated to COVID-19 pandemic impact that manifested itself around the world since the end of 2019 and significantly affected the tourism and hospitality industry. In Russia and in the world, tourism is among industries the most affected by the consequences of restrictions and anti-epidemiological measures against COVID-19. The article divides the examples of mechanisms for overcoming the epidemic consequences in tourism, developed by different states and in Russia, in 9 groups (categories), and considers them in a comparative aspect. COVID-19 exacerbated relationship problems between two main subjects of the tourism market - tour operators and travel agents. Numerous mechanisms of government supporting Russian tourism industry do not work to the full and are not effective enough. The article discusses these problems, highlights the main trends and prospects of the tourism industry in Russia and in the world, and tries to outline the contours of the "post-Сovid" future of the tourism sector. The industry is in deep crisis, but at the same time, it expects new breakthrough ideas and technologies, creative solutions and non-standard proposals. Probably, the tourism projects, formed on these foundations and mechanisms, will become new drivers of industry growth after the end of the pandemic. Key words: Tourism industry; COVID-19 pandemic impact on tourism; Tourism industry in Russia; Global tourism crisis; Trends and measures to supporting subjects of the tourism market.

Tourism Industry Crisis and its Impacts: Investigating the Indonesian Tourism Employees Perspectives’ in the Pandemic of COVID-19

Jurnal Kepariwisataan: Destinasi, Hospitalitas dan Perjalanan ◽

10.34013/jk.v4i2.54 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 98-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ikrar Genidal Riadil

Keyword(s):

Hospitality Industry ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Tourism Sector ◽

The World ◽

Recent Outbreak ◽

Disease Spreading ◽

Tourism And Hospitality ◽

Novel Coronavirus ◽

The Impact

The recent outbreak of Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 caused a worldwide paranoia due to its fatal nature. The pandemic of COVID-19 affects globally and also in Indonesia itself, wherein Indonesia, one of the affected, is the tourism sector. Indonesia is currently conscious of this pandemic infection, and harms the company, someone’s job career, especially since this pandemic disease is getting worse, it also has an impact on the tourism and hospitality sectors. This study is to investigate the Indonesian tourism employee’s perspectives’ who are working in the realm of tourism and hospitality industry, to see the impact of their jobs career. The researcher will use a qualitative study for this research. The study's data is collected from tourism employees in Indonesia, and ten questions have given to the employees. There are fifty-two tourism employees from a different company in Indonesia have participated in filling the questionnaires. Moreover, results are also generally highlighted in Indonesia about negatively impact the Indonesian to negatively impact the Indonesian tourism and the hospitality industry as a consequence of a significant pandemic of disease spreading throughout the world. Some positive and negative perspectives that are also apparent in the result of questionnaires. The conclusion, the aim of the study will further help the authority to take precautions and relevant policies also to be incorporated in the future. Also, it is to investigate the tourism employees from a different company in Indonesia’s beliefs and perspectives toward the impact of their jobs career in the pandemic COVID-19 have a good impact or not for jobs career.

Modern trends in the development of world hotel business

Journal of Economics and International Relations ◽

10.26565/2310-9513-2019-9-23 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Hospitality Industry ◽

System Analysis ◽

Global Business ◽

Current Trends ◽

The World ◽

Provision Of Services ◽

Global Tourism ◽

General Scientific ◽

The relevance of the study is explained by the fact that today the global tourism and hospitality industry is in tough conditions of competition for each client and is forced to react very quickly to external changes in business conditions. At the same time, despite the unstable economic and political situation in the world, the hotel and tourism business continues to grow rapidly. The growth of tourism all over the world causes an active expansion of the offered hotel services. The subject of this research is the innovation in the hospitality industry in the direction of increasing the competitiveness of modern forms of the hotel business. The goalof the article is to study current trends in the development of the global hotel business. The object is a study of the development of the global hotel business. As a general scientific method, system analysis is used, as well as logical and historical research methods. As a result of the study, the following results were obtained: in order to manage the operation of a hotel enterprise, it is necessary to constantly update it and maintain it in the state provided for by the standards and technical conditions, to ensure the rhythmic provision of services of a certain quality. The management of the development process of a hotel enterprise is aimed at changing its state, turning it into a corresponding to the modern high world achievements of the hotel industry. Conclusions: analysis, research and use of the current global business trends by hotels, first of all, the active use and development of IT and software for mobile phones influences the improvement of service quality, competitiveness and reputation of the hotels, makes it attractive and unique to customers.

Assessment of status, problems and trends in development of tourist service market in Russian regions in terms of COVID-19 pandemic

VESTNIK OF ASTRAKHAN STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY SERIES ECONOMICS ◽

10.24143/2073-5537-2021-2-119-128 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 (2) ◽

pp. 119-128

Author(s):

Irina Anatolievna Morozova ◽

Elena Gennadievna Gushchina ◽

Yulia Olegovna Aleksikova ◽

Anastasia Aleksandrovna Goncharova

Keyword(s):

Hospitality Industry ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Service Market ◽

Russian Economy ◽

Tourism Sector ◽

Tourism Potential ◽

Tourism And Hospitality ◽

Novel Coronavirus ◽

The Impact

The article examines the impact of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) pandemic on the tourism and hospitality industry. Based on an assessment of the scale of losses incurred by enterprises in this sector of the economy in an unfavorable epidemiological situation, it was concluded that tourism was among the industries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The identified problems faced by small and medium-sized businesses from among tour operators and travel agencies confirmed the correctness of the measures of state support provided by the state to this sector of the economy. A comparative analysis of the development of the tourism sector in 2019 and 2020 in terms of such parameters as the number of inbound and outbound trips of citizens, the volume of demand for tourism services, made it possible to assess the threats and opportunities for the functioning of the tourism sector during the pandemic for the Russian economy and suggest that the recovery of the tourism industry it may take at least three years. There have been illustrated the diagrams comparing the demand for outbound and inbound tourism in 2019 and 2020, the demand for tourist services among different strata of the population, and hotel occupancy in Russia. In addition to identifying general factors that hinder the balanced growth of the Russian market of tourist services, the problem of information asymmetry was stated, which hinders the realization of the tourist potential in the regions: lack/ insufficient data, or distorted data on the tourism potential in certain territories. The highlighted trends in the development of the Russian tourism industry in the current conditions and promising trends in the tourism and hospitality industry include greening, digitalization, individualization of both demand and supply, an orientation towards domestic tourism.

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

The Gaze Journal of Tourism and Hospitality ◽

10.3126/gaze.v12i1.35675 ◽

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.

Multilevel Approach to Competitiveness in the Global Tourism Industry - Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry ◽

Introduction to the Multilevel Approach to Competitiveness in the Global Tourism Industry

10.4018/978-1-7998-0365-2.ch001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Sérgio Jesus Teixeira ◽

Joao J. Ferreira

Keyword(s):

Hospitality Industry ◽

Rapid Change ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Competitive Environment ◽

Multilevel Approach ◽

Business Environments ◽

Global Tourism ◽

The search for understanding the multilevel approach to competitiveness in the global tourism industry has led to a separation of approaches such as the characteristics of the general and competitive environment. The globalization, the companies' transformation, the emergence of the digital company, and the evolution of the tourism and hospitality industry represent four powerful drivers of change modifying business environments worldwide (Laudon & Laudon, 2007; Salem, 2014). In a world increasingly influenced by globalization, broad markets make it difficult for companies to cope with rapid change and increasing competition using only their skills, capabilities, and resources. As such, it is crucial to establish long-term relationships with other organizations, thus entering networks to help cope with any gaps or difficulties encountered in the markets.

Addressing the effect of COVID19 pandemic on the Tourism Industry in Haridwar and Dehradun Districts of Uttarakhand, India

Dev Sanskriti Interdisciplinary International Journal ◽

10.36018/dsiij.v16i.163 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

pp. 48-55

Author(s):

Ashish Kumar ◽

Ajay Bhardwaj ◽

Umakant Indolia

Keyword(s):

Online Survey ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

North India ◽

Strong Response ◽

Travel And Tourism ◽

Tourism Sector ◽

The World ◽

World Economic ◽

Tourism And Hospitality ◽

Global Travel

The World Travel and Tourism Council has said “The coronavirus COVID19 epidemic is putting up to 50 million jobs in the global travel and tourism sector at risk, with travel likely to slump by a quarter this year, Asia being the most affected continent”. The predictions being flashed by the world economic forum about the travel & tourism industry is also reflected in North India tourism industry. Hence, the study aimed to address and evaluate the effect of COVID19 on Uttarakhand tourism, especially, on the site of Haridwar and Dehradun as they are the entry to the gateway of Major Char Dham Yatra of Himalaya, and where all India tourists arrive since centuries. The prime focus of the study was to review and investigate the people's reaction towards the pandemic situation and how it had affected the working as well as livelihood of people associated with Tourism and hospitality in this region of Uttarakhand. The study did a online survey through self-prepared 20 questions questionnaire. The study indicates before and COVID19 pandemic affected nearly 60% respondents for their professional working and many were affected with payment schedules. The majority of the respondents (78.4%) were very much positive and had faith for the bright future besides happy to spend time with family. In addition, the study showed a strong response from participants for the need of the change in the service of the tourism industry indicating a change for its survival with the present threat possibly through finding solutions such as local tourism, spiritual collective effort and support.

Handbook of Research on the Impacts and Implications of COVID-19 on the Tourism Industry - Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry ◽

New Practices in the Tourism Sector During COVID-19

10.4018/978-1-7998-8231-2.ch031 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 645-663

Author(s):

Meral Büyükkuru ◽

Neşe Yılmaz

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Hospitality Industry ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Tourism Sector ◽

Tourism And Hospitality ◽

Normalization Process

The tourism sector is one of the main economic sectors of both developed and developing countries. It is one of the sectors that feels the most destructive effects of COVID-19 in terms of generating income, providing employment, and covering many sub-sectors. A number of practices, recommendations, and decisions have been put forward to minimize the devastating effects of the pandemic by the international bodies. Although the COVID-19 epidemic has been brought under control in some countries with various vaccination practices and a new normalization process has been entered into, the traces of its destructive effects are still visible in the tourism industry. Therefore, this chapter draws the attention of the reader to comprehensive and up to the present unconventional practices in the industry due to the impacts of COVID-19 on the tourism and hospitality industry.

Tourism and the hospitality industry: current state problems and prospects of development

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202127309038 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 273 ◽

pp. 09038

Author(s):

Irina Buharova ◽

Liliya Vereshchagina

Keyword(s):

Hospitality Industry ◽

Service Sector ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Travel Agents ◽

Current Trends ◽

Current State ◽

Support Measures ◽

Travel Industry ◽

The article considers the current trends in the development of the tourism and hospitality industry as the most important ways to develop the geographical, cultural, social and political space. The article analyzes the state support measures for service sector enterprises, as well as the main current problems among tour operators and travel agents, which were identified by the Russian Union of Travel Industry. Recommendations for the development of tourism in the current situation are given, two key trends of the tourism industry for 2021 are analyzed.

COVID-19 EFFECTS ON TOURISM SECTOR AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TOUR GUIDES PROFESSION IN SERBIA

10.52370/tisc2162az ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Andrea Žerajić ◽

Keyword(s):

Hospitality Industry ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Professional Association ◽

International Travel ◽

Tour Guides ◽

Tourism Sector ◽

Tourism And Hospitality ◽

The Way

The tourism industry is one of the sectors that have been hit the hardest by the Corona crisis worldwide. The pandemic has crippled domestic and international travel for the most part, resulting in significant revenue losses and liquidity problems for all tourism businesses. In the aftermath of the crisis, the industry will have to contend with people's increased need for security and trust. Tourism and hospitality industry are the most endangered industries across the globe. Tour guides represent the profession that may have been affected the most, precisely because of the seasonal nature of their work, as well as because of the way they are engaged. This paper aims to point out the problems faced by tour guides during the pandemic as well as to present, through interviews with tour guides in Serbia, the position and efforts of the professional association of tour guides of Serbia and their attempts to improve their status during this period.

TOURISM INDUSTRY: IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC AND DE- VELOPMENT CONDITIONS

The Professors' Magazine. Recreation and Tourism Series ◽

10.18572/2686-858x-2020-2-6-30-45 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 30-45

Author(s):

Марина Юрьевна Шерешева ◽

Keyword(s):

World Economy ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Successful Development ◽

Market Participants ◽

Tourist Destinations ◽

The World ◽

Global Tourism ◽

Hospitality Sector ◽

Tourism And Hospitality ◽

Almost All

In the first two decades of the XXI century, the tourism industry was one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the world economy, but 2020 was a disastrous year for market participants. The article examines the main trends in the global tourism industry on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the dramatic changes caused by the closure of almost all tourist destinations and the suspension of the market actor’s activity. In Russia, there was urgent support provided to companies in the tourism and hospitality sector, objective prerequisites formed for more intensive domestic tourism development. However, systemic solutions are necessary to create conditions for industry recovery and successful development.