Travel and Tourism in the USA in the Light of COVID-19. Major Selected Points
Travel and Tourism in the USA in the Light of COVID-19. Major Selected Points

Summary/Abstract: Prior to COVID-19, travel and tourism had grown to be one of the most significant sectors in the global economy, accounting for 10% of global GDP and more than 320 million employments globally. The worldwide epidemic, the first of its kind in a new era of interconnection, has threatened 100 million jobs, many of them in micro, small, and medium-sized businesses that employ a large proportion of women, who make up 54 percent of the tourist sector. Tourism-dependent countries are likely to bear the brunt of the crisis's consequences for far longer than other economies. Contact-intensive services critical to the tourist and travel industries have been disproportionately impacted by the epidemic and will continue to struggle until people feel comfortable enough to travel in large numbers again. The aim of the paper is the assessment of the situation of travel and tourism in the USA in the light of COVID-19 pandemic. The following research problems were put forward: What is the diversification of situation of the tourism in the USA in the light of COVID-19? Which of the researched aspects of tourism in the USA in the light of COVID-19 have the highest and lowest level in the researched time scope? In the theoretical part of the paper was depicted the literature review. The studies were carried out within the documentation, statistical, comparative, dynamics analysis. The results showed that the situation of travel and tourism in the USA in the light of COVID-19 had different tendencies. The inference process took place in a deductive way.

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