Impact of Corona on Travel Industry

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Travelpedia
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2 min readMar 24, 2020

Empty hotels, cancelled flights, closed tourist sights. The corona-virus is crippling global tourism. The industry is already expecting losses running into billions. The crisis in Europe is still growing: Since the outbreak in Italy, popular tourist destinations are often deserted.

Most visited countries in the world

  1. France — 89 million visitors. France leads the world in the field of tourism.
  2. Spain — 83 million visitors
  3. United States — 80 million visitors
  4. China — 63 million visitors
  5. Italy — 62 million visitors
  6. Turkey — 46 million visitors
  7. Mexico — 41 million visitors
  8. Germany — 39 million visitors

In Venice and Milan, museums, theaters and places of interest remain closed, major events have been cancelled.

In France, too, the Louvre remains closed for a third consecutive day because employees have stopped working for fear of infection.

Louvre Museum is the world’s largest art museum

List of Countries by Tourism Income

  1. United States of America (USA)
  2. Spain
  3. France
  4. Thailand
  5. United Kingdom (UK)
  6. Italy
  7. Australia
  8. Germany
  9. Japan
  10. China
  11. India
  12. Turkey

And, the effect of this pandemic of corona all countries are majorly impacted. Tourism is the most powerful weapon to strengthen any country economy as well as their local economy.

Due to this pandemic, many people are now jobless or shortage or money. And, lot of companies are firing their employees because of this crisis which badly impacted the everyone life.

Visa Company, Hotel, Air Flight, Travel & Tour companies are majorly impacted and almost down to zero and will take almost 1 year to recover.

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