Travel

COVID-19 has severely damaged the travel industry in Morocco. From 20 March when the strict lockdown was introduced, consumers have been forced to remain at home except for essential travel, causing demand for any domestic tourism to plummet, while ...

COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across North Macedonia’s tourist industry. Global containment measures brought cross-border tourism to a grinding halt early in the pandemic’s first wave, with airlines and tour operators facing mass cancellations ...

As the political situation stabilised in Ukraine, tourism had been picking up but COVID-19 put a stop to that and all travel-related operators are expected to register significant current value decline in 2020, across airlines, car rental, lodging ...

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had a severe negative impact on all areas of travel in the United Arab Emirates in 2020, along with associated industries such as retail. The pandemic has forced the postponement of Expo 2020, which was ...

Although the Belarusian government did not close the country’s borders, the initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic’s subsequent lockdown across the world impacted tourism and travel in the country negatively. However, visitors to the country from a ...

Austria reacted relatively quickly and resolutely to the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in early 2020, reducing the potential number of deaths at the cost of the population’s social life and the country’s economic performance, but ...

Sri Lanka had a swift response to the global pandemic, with the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka imposing a ban on all passenger arrivals into the country from 18 March. The government also temporarily suspended the issuance of all types of ...

The initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic’s subsequent lockdown in Bosnia and Herzegovina began in mid-March as the government enforced restrictions and the country’s land borders were closed and flights grounded by the end of that month. All ...

The impact of COVID-19 on the travel industry in Kazakhstan is set to be severe. The country had helped to build on the success of its hosting of EXPO-17, an international exposition which in 2017 in the capital Astana, now Nur-Sultan, and which ...

COVID-19 has hit Lebanon hard, with inbound tourist flows plummeting and lodging and airline companies feeling the effects of this lack of demand. From 13 March, the strict government restrictions and country-wide lockdown led to a sharp drop in ...

Prior to COVID-19, tourism had been already been struggling, principally driven by a dramatic drop of visitors from Venezuela and hotel occupancy was low. It is not expected that tourism will not see any significant growth in terms of value sales, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought both inbound arrivals and outbound departures to a standstill in Taiwan in 2020. Travel faced unprecedented revenue losses from the widespread travel restrictions and border lockdowns implemented around the globe. ...

COVID-19 will have a heavy detrimental impact on travel in Qatar in 2020. From 22 March, the strict government restrictions, border closures and partial lockdown led to a sharp drop in inbound tourist flows and forced consumers to remain at home ...

The Kuwait government acted considerably quickly with their response to COVID-19 and in March imposed a lockdown and suspended all air travel, including the transportation of food and medical supplies, alongside the closure of the borders. As more ...

The first major impact the COVID-19 outbreak had in Jordan began in March 2020, with a total lockdown seeing the closure of borders. As the situation worsened, other countries across the globe also began implementing travel bans and restrictions, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the travel industry in Georgia very hard. The government acted quickly to close border closures and suspend flights, as well as train travel and other internal restrictions on movement. This has effectively suspended ...

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had, and continues to have, a very negative impact on Argentina’s tourism industry, which is the country’s fourth-largest generator of foreign exchange. It has led to huge falls in tourist flows and sales and ...

COVID-19 has slashed sales across all categories in travel in 2020. Global containment measures which halted cross-border travel proved catastrophic for car rental companies which relied upon inbound arrivals. Lodging establishments closed for ...

Costa Rica is largely dependent on tourism and it is a significant contributor to its GDP. However in 2020, due to the impact of COVID-19, It is expected that the number of inbound arrivals will decline by an unprecedented two-thirds. The impact is ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is set to leave few areas of the travel and tourism market in Chile untouched in 2020. It has led to huge falls in tourist flows and sales across all categories, effectively paralysing airlines and lodging establishments during ...