HI6008 - Research Project - Review Assignment

I. COVID 19 AS A THREAT TO HOSPLITALITY, TOURISM AND ECONOMY AND RESPONSE FROM AUSTRALIAN MARKET

The Coronavirus is crown shaped virus when looked upon with microscope, is one of member from the coronavirus family like SARS and Syndrome-COV. The most apparent symptoms include Fever, Cough and Shortness of breath in infected person. There can be other symptoms associated as sore throat, tiredness, kidney failure as well as diarrhea. The traditional methods and medicines do not prove to cure the coronavirus infection. Up to the date, the vaccinations has not been invented for the COVID19, the social distancing, self-isolation and contact tracing is being used to reduce the spread of the virus (Kulkarni, et al., 2020) .
The catastrophic effect of COVID-19 has caused the severe health issues, deaths, unemployment, recession on economy, steepness in tourism activity. The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced COVID-19 as pandemic on 11 th March 2020 (WHO,2020). This Business research report will further discuss and present the unemployment caused on tourism and hospitality sector in Australia along with effect on tourism sector due to coronavirus. Furthermore, this report will discuss for what will be the solutions for no of job losses in this sectors and possible recommendation for survival.

EFFECT OF COVID 19 TO HOSPLITALITY & TOURISM IN AUSTRALIA
 

A. Tourism

The Australian Federation of Travel Agents also known as (AFTA) established on 1957 represents major travel agency and travel agents in Australia. It has 3000 agents and 40,000 staffs employed by them. The AFTA member survey has demonstrated that, the pandemic will result about 42% percentage of business to be inactive or shutdown. The AFTA member’s survey also revealed that, 82% of agents presented 100% and remaining 16 % reported 90?crease in income generated via travel business (Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA), 2020) .

B. Hospitality

To reduce the quick spread of Coronavirus, people have been travelled to overseas needs to self-isolate themselves for 14 days. The Australian Prime minister, Mr. Scott Morrison has declared that, Hotel industry in Australia would get necessary support to make hotels Quarantine space for self-isolation provisions for all incoming visitors. The Australian Hotels Association (AHA) in western Australia is working with governmental and state level in collaboration to give extensive and practical help to endure this pandemic situation. The take away or delivery facilities are provided in hospitality sector to support employment and economy. The Alcohol take-away service along with delivery service is also offered to support the whole economic system and letting business to survive.