Which tourist destinations have been most affected by covid?
Service Next Vacay investigated tourist destinations, and named the routes that were most affected by the coronavirus.
According to the ranking of countries that most expect tourists, the special administrative region of China Macau was in first place. In 2019, the region was visited by an average of 3.3 million tourists per month. In 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the tourist flow decreased to 491 thousand people, the drop was 85%.
The second place is Cyprus, where an average of 331.4 thousand travelers visited every month in 2019. In 2020, their number decreased to 52 thousand (-84.12%).
Malaysia is in third place with a drop in tourist traffic by 83.4%, from 2.2 million tourists to 361 thousand. It is followed by Thailand and the Philippines – minus 83.2 and 82.1%.
The sixth place is occupied by Mauritius: in 2019, the island attracted 115 thousand tourists per month, in 2020 - only 25.7 thousand.
Next are Portugal (-74.7%), New Zealand (-74.4%) and Sri Lanka.
Greece closes the top ten. In 2019, the country was visited by an average of 1.8 million foreign travelers, while in 2020, due to anticoronavirus restrictions on travel, the tourist flow decreased to 492.5 thousand guests (-72.5%).
Experts drew attention to the areas where due to the suspension of international tourism, residents were left without work.
The first place in this category was taken by the island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean: if in 2019 the average employment of the population in the tourism industry was one million people, then in 2020 it decreased by almost 20%. In second place is the Caribbean island state of Barbados, where employment in tourism fell by 10.8%. The third is in the Philippines.
Source: tourism.interfax