IJTH International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality 2709-9768 SvedbergOpen ijth-IJTH-1-3-004 10.51483/IJTH.1.3.2021.41-49 Research Paper Impacts of corona on tourism and small enterprises in Bangladesh NaiemMd. Abdullah Al 1 * 1BBA, Management Studies, MBA - Human Resource Management, Bangladesh University of Professionals. E-mail: mnaiem107@gmail.com *Corresponding author: Md. Abdullah Al Naiem, BBA, Management Studies, MBA – Human Resource Management, Bangladesh, University of Professionals. E-mail: mnaiem107@gmail.com 07 2021 1 3 41 49 Abstract

This paper tries to find out the impacts of Corona on Tourism and Hospitality Industry in Bangladesh and presented some recovery plans for minimizing those negative impacts. This study is carried out based on the secondary data sources, various literature, newspapers, organizational and government publications, website materials and other sources are used to find out and complete the analysis. Corona has created an anxiety around the globe. Bangladesh has already started to face its horrible look. The economy of Bangladesh is just sunk and like other industries tourism industry is facing most awful situation ever before. Due to lockdown people cannot move from one place to another. As the number of Corona positive cases increasing day by day, government bound to take this hard decision (lockdown). All international flights have been cancelled and sowed for long days; accommodation business (hotels/motels/resort owners) already started to face a countless loss. Small hotels/ motels/restaurants/travel agencies already closed their businesses; thousands of people working in tourism industry have shared become jobless. Already government of Bangladesh offered different special packages for recovery and ensuring sustainability of different sector. Tourism industry also needs to offer different stimulus and discount packages for attracting domestic tourist which will help to recover the losses. This study also presents the real scenario of tourism industry during Corona pandemic which will help to know the update knowledge regarding the impact s of Corona on tourism and hospitality industry and to take proper recovery steps.

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