Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2021)

Impact of Covid-19 on Tourism Industry

Authors
Zihan Zhu1, Xing Gao1, Rujia Chen1
1Beijing World Youth Academy, Beijing, China, 100028
1Arcadia High School, Arcadia, California, United States, 91006
1University of Manchester, Manchester, the UK
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Zihan Zhu
Available Online 15 December 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211209.419How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Covid-19; tourism industry; Ctrip; uncertainty
Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge to many businesses around the world, leading to a devastating economic disruption. It has specifically brought a huge destructive impact on the travel and tourism industry and caused significant effects. Following the lockdown, many countries implemented flight restrictions to China, damaging the travel and tourism industry in China. Being the largest online travel platform in China, Ctrip has experienced an unexpected trough period, and it is under vast financial pressure while also deploying more workers to cope with the huge refunds caused by the outbreak. The surging of cases has pushed the world into great uncertainty with the absence of an effective vaccine, and tourists will not come to China for large-scale tourism out of the mentality of emergency security and panic for the destination. Technology has been an instrumental tool used by industry leaders such as Ctrip to inject life back to the economically-plagued industry. It would be prudent for Ctrip to perpetuate the online popularization efforts to set up the industry in a constructive recovery trajectory. This paper focuses on the political, economical, social, and technological impacts that Covid-19 has brought to the tourism industry as represented by Ctrip.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2021)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
15 December 2021
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978-94-6239-483-4
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211209.419How to use a DOI?
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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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