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What is the Impact of Coronavirus on Indian Tourism and Travel Industry?
Moolya Foundation
Public Policy
Sep 07, 2020 11:43 AM 5 min read
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The tourism sector of a country generates foreign exchange, drives regional development, and directly supports various businesses and numerous types of jobs such as catering, tourist operators etc.
It also underpins many local communities. As a labour-intensive sector, it commands a major share of the employment rate of several countries. For instance, tourism makes up 15.7% of total employment in Iceland, 13.5% in Spain, 10.3% in Ireland, 10.0% in Greece, and 9.8% in Portugal.
It contributes 8.1% of total employment in India, and was naturally not averse to the job losses and salary cuts inflicted by COVID-19. According to the Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism & Hospitality (FAITH), about 3.8 crore people in the country faced unemployment due to the pandemic and resulting lockdowns.
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Impact of Covid-19 on Tourism
The rapid spread of coronavirus has halted domestic and trade activities, and disrupted routine activities of many nations bringing their economies to a halt. Several countries across the world continue to announce travel restrictions as a part of their efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Thus, tourism across the world is getting impacted although it might be more severe in India due to its large number of religious and historic places. Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) estimates the hotel, aviation and travel sector together may incur a loss of about ₹85 billion due to travel restrictions imposed on foreign tourists, which has resulted in large scale cancellations. Though domestic transport facilities are being made somewhat operations as of this writing, the social distancing norms will continue to impact tourism for the rest of the year.
India’s total foreign tourist arrivals (FTAs) stood at 10.9 million and the foreign exchange earnings stood at Rs 210,971 crore during 2019 with Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi accounting for about 60% of FTAs. However, now with travel restrictions in India for over 80 countries and the international flights being suspended (and domestic flights being operational with restrictions), the Indian domestic travelers and FTAs will witness a significant decline during 2020. The sector is staring at a potential job loss of around 38 million, which is around 70 percent of the total workforce.
Even without regard to tourism, the cancellation of events (personal or business) will adversely impact the revenues of airlines, railways and buses. In addition, demand for petrol, oil and turbine fuel will substantially decline, thus affecting the petroleum and oil industries. The impact will be felt on both white and blue-collar jobs. Since airports would function at less than their normal capacity, it would impact the contract and temporary workers in the airports. All this shows the cascading effects of impact to the travel and tourism industry.
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