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COVID-19 AND TOURIST ARRIVAL: A CASE STUDY OF ALWAR DISTRICT, RAJASTHAN

The impact of the pandemic has been witnessed and has affected all sector of the economy adversely. The pandemic includes a sweeping impact on tourism trade in Rajasthan. The covid-19 pandemic, the following Lock- down and social distancing measures have had a significant impact on the tourism trade. The tourism sector has to be the maximum brunt as activities related to it, such as hotels restaurants, Handicrafts purchase, Airlines and rail services all come to a grinding halt. As per the world tourism barometer of the UN’s “World Tourism Organization” tourism faded by 72% globally during covid-19. The year 2020 was a peculiar year marred by the covid-19 pandemic and resulting nationwide and worldwide lockdown measures enforced since March 2020. The paper analyses the trend of foreign in addition to domestic tourists’ arrival in Alwar district of Rajasthan throughout 2014 to 2020. The paper furthermore compares the trend of tourist arrival during pre and post COVID-19.

 

Keywords: Foreign, Domestic, Arrival, Tourist, COVID-19, Social Distancing.


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