From the start of the COVID-19 crisis in China, the impact of the pandemic on the travel tourism industry was significantly underestimated. Even now, policymakers and tourism practitioners do not have a full understanding of the scenarios and effects of the crisis, which will have an unprecedented impact on the tourism industry. Tourism is a major source of income for the state like Rajasthan. Tourism is the big source of employment and revenue. COVID -19 has interrupted all the activities of the world. As the panic of COVID-19 impacts the people around the world, mobility of people has been paused, so the tourism has been stopped too. As the complete lockdown has been followed, the all the tourist places had been closed down at one hand and due to the fear of the spread of the pandemic foreign as well as domestic tourist has been paused too. This pandemic adversely affected various fields of the economy, tourism is one of them. As the tourism is a widespread aspect related to hotels, restaurants, handicrafts, purchases, airlines and rail services, each and every aspect has been influenced as well. The inflow of tourists which has been decreased during COVID -19. It is big challenge for the government to revive the tourism industry in Rajasthan. The paper presents the comparative study of number of tourists pre and post COVID-19 time and the probable measures to overcome the present scenario.

Keywords: COVID-19, Policymakers, Pandemic, Post COVID-19, Travel Tourism.