Tourism in the Post-Pandemic World: Economic Challenges and Opportunities for Asia-Pacific and the Western Hemisphere
February 19, 2021
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Summary
This departmental paper analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism in the Asia Pacific region, Latin America, and Caribbean countries. Many tourism dependent economies in these regions, including small states in the Pacific and the Caribbean, entered the pandemic with limited fiscal space, inadequate external buffers, and foreign exchange revenues extremely concentrated in tourism. The empirical analysis leverages on an augmented gravity model to draw lessons from past epidemics and finds that the impact of infectious diseases on tourism flows is much greater in developing countries than in advanced economies.
Subject: Communicable diseases, COVID-19, Economic growth, Economic sectors, Exports, Health, International tourism, International trade, Job creation, Tourism
Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Caribbean, Communicable diseases, COVID-19, Diversification, economies will, Exports, Global, Growth, Jobs, Pacific Islands, Spillovers, Tourism, tourism dominance, tourism export, tourism flow, tourism industry, tourism model, tourism sector, Western Hemisphere
Pages:
115
Volume:
2021
DOI:
Issue:
002
Series:
Departmental Paper No. 2021/002
Stock No:
TFOTPPWEA
ISBN:
9781513561905
ISSN:
2616-5333
