Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Tourism & Hospitality Industry in Bangladesh

Abstract

This article tries to find out the impacts of COVID-19 on Tourism and Hospitality Industry in Bangladesh and presented some recovery plans for minimizing those negative impacts. This study is carried out based on the secondary data sources, various literature, newspapers, organizational and government publications, website materials and other sources are used to find out and complete the analysis. COVID-19 has created an anxiety around the globe. Bangladesh has already started to face its horrible look. The economy of Bangladesh is just sunk and like other industries tourism industry is facing most awful situation ever before. Due to lockdown people cannot move from one place to another. As the number of COVID-19 positive cases increasing day by day, government bound to take this hard decision (lockdown). All international flights have been cancelled and stopped for long days; accommodation business (hotels/motels/resort owners) already started to face a countless loss. Small hotels/motels/restaurants/travel agencies already closed their businesses; thousands of people working in tourism industry have started to become jobless. Already government of Bangladesh offered different special packages for recovery and ensuring sustainability of different sector. Tourism industry also needs to offer different stimulus and discount packages for attracting domestic tourist which will help to recover the losses. This study also presents the real scenario of tourism industry during COVID-19 pandemic which will help to know the update knowledge regarding the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism and hospitality industry and to take proper recovery steps.