Revista de investigación turística y hotelería

An Overview on Impact of Covid-19 on Economy of Tourism

Stephen Pratt

Before COVID-19, travel and tourism had gotten to be one of the most important divisions within the world economy, bookkeeping for 10 present of global GDP and more than 320 million employments worldwide. The global widespread, the first of its scale in a unused period of interconnectedness, has put 100 million employments at risk, numerous in micro, little, and medium-sized enterprises that utilize a high share of women, who represent 54 percent of the tourism workforce, according to the United Countries World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).