COVID-19 pandemic, global spread, issues, and challenges

Pal, Indrajit; Shaw, Rajib; Dhungana, Ganesh

doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-99277-0.00021-8

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“…Th e fi rst case of COVID-19, was discovered in Wuhan, China on 31 December 2019 (Fang et al, 2021), which marked the advent of the biggest challenge that aff ected the global village by increasing adverse impacts on people's lifestyles, health, social, and financial conditions (Pal et al, 2022). Th e impact was for prolonged period and people were uncertain about the duration of virus impact (Levine et al, 2022).…”

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“…Th e unavailability of the cure of virus caused many people mental stress (Haider et al, 2020). According to Pal et al (2022), the pandemic aff ected all the spheres of society including health care, global governance, socio-cultural and interpersonal relationship globally (Woods et al, 2020).As a result, the governments restricted travel and social gathering to control the spread of the virus and mitigate the eff ect of COVID-19 on the lives and livelihood of the people (Majumdar, 2021).…”

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“…Although governments restricted mobility and human interaction to stop the virus's spread, they were unaware of the economic and social consequences (Pal et al, 2022), which hampered global functioning. Like many sectors, hospitality sector, a sub sector of travel and tourism business was also severely aff ected (Majumdar, 2021) as travel was restricted and demand for hotel service was reduced.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on the Employees of Hotel Industry

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Bhattarai,

Shrestha

et al. 2023

Jnl Tourism & Adventure

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Travel and mobility restrictions to contain COVID-19 forced many hotels to shut down their business completely or partially. As a result, the hotel sector was hit hard financially. Consequently, majority of the employees of the sector lost their job or were employed with reduced work hours. It affected their financial and psychological aspects. However, there are limited studies focusing on financial and psychological aspects of closures and employment reduction by COVID-19. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate effect of COVID-19 on hotel employees in Kathmandu, Nepal with a survey among the representative sample of 92 hotel industry employees by using a self-constructed questionnaire. The data were then analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-tests, and ANOVA. The result shows that COVID-19 caused a high degree of financial and psychological crises for the employees. Therefore, in conclusion, hotels should create emergency funds to prepare for future crises and provide training and counseling for employees to ensure the employees’ well-being during times of crisis. Similarly, this study recommends hotel employees to save money for emergency situations. The findings of this study are only based on descriptive statistics and future researchers can implement advanced statistical tools and mixed methods to get the in-depth idea of impact of COVID-19 on hotel employees.

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