The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on society and tourism

Abstract

Tourism is a contemporary and interdisciplinary phenomenon that is present, directly or indirectly, in people's lives. The occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic forced society to rethink its relationship with the world in its different aspects, including tourism. Our study objective is to identify the main impacts arising from the Covid-19 pandemic on society and tourism. For this, explanatory research of a qualitative approach was used, using the bibliographic review as a procedure. The results indicate
that the Covid-19 pandemic reached the globe and impacted society in different sociodemographic, economic, cultural, political-legal, technological, and environmental variables. In the field of tourism, millions of jobs have been lost, with emphasis on travel agencies among the affected activities, and the forecast is for a gradual recovery until 2022. The adaptation to the health and safety protocols and movement of domestic tourism emerge as some of the challenges imposed on the actors involved in
the activity.