TOURISM INDUSTRIES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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             TOURISM INDUSTRIES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

India has 36 world heritage sites and 103 national parks. Tourism accounts for nearly 10% of India’s GDP and employs 12.75% of our workforce. With the hit of covid-19 pandemic tourism is amongst the most hit sector. Hotels were shut, restaurants were shuttered, buses stopped moving, flights were grounded and trains were stationary. People will regain full confidence to travel only when a vaccine is developed, and the impact can be imagined. Fear is the key, fear of the unknown, fear of the infection.


All the international flights were grounded in March 2020 after lockdown and won’t be operational till 31st December 2020. Throughout the covid-19 pandemic, the central and state governments of India coordinated numerous international and domestic evacuations under the Vande Bharat mission. In July 2020 India has initially established travel bubbles with the United States, Germany, and France. Since then India has formed agreements with 10 other Nations air bubbles or travel corridors are systems established between two countries that perceive each other to be safe and allow carriers of both the countries to fly passengers either way with restrictions.

Let us see how different sectors are affected-

  1. Traditional shopping outlets suffer a serious setback as even after unlock people don’t feel like going shopping instead prefer online shopping small shopkeepers are suffering. Slowly things are improving but here we are taking into consideration those shops whose customers are mainly tourists, they are facing a hard time.

  2. Adventure tourism- all this while people have been locked up. People are now bored and are desperately waiting to get out and travel. Domestic tourists are up for adventure tourism now after unlock. As the virus does affect people of all ages people are preparing solo trips rather than traveling in groups and exploring places.

  3. Food tourism- Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das recently said Indian businesses should capitalize on food processing abilities and work on developing tourism to gain opportunities thrown open by the covid-19 crisis.

  4. Road trips- families and friends traveling in personal vehicle to nearby places especially on weekends is a common scene nowadays but I think it does add very little in the tourism sector. Common people do prefer budget-friendly stay over luxury.

  5. Destination weddings- with the restriction placed by the government on the number of guests for weddings, the number of destination weddings has drastically gone down.

  6. School trips- all the schools are closed, school trips did dry up.

  7. Mega events- mega-events, for now, have become very less attractive.


To understand the situation better let’s take the example of Udaipur which is among the highest visited City by tourists in India. 40% of 2.5 million people directly or indirectly e on a livelihood from tourism in Udaipur. Royal Heritage, lakes, folk arts, street foods, temples, Rajasthan cuisine, outdoor activities, Rajasthani art museums, markets are the attractions offered by Udaipur. Shopkeepers who sell jewelry, traditional handbags, clothes and puppets, tourist guide, porters, transporters, and camel owners are among the people who are affected.

India did face a fall in tourism in 2008 after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and the session. After the discovery of the vaccine, we do hope that tourism will flourish again in India as it did back then.

                                            Article by- Kanupriya Chundawat

Edited by: Aastha Soni


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