Epidemic Risk Analysis of Hospitality Industry

The hospitality industry is one of the most emerging industries, which is known for tourism, hotel, and many other majors, which also share a huge part in the GDP of the economy. Since there had been many deadly outbreaks in the past that hampered the industry to its extent. It includes the Epidemic of SARS 2003, H1N1 swine flu, and so on. In all the past epidemics, there have been several strategies and measures to protect the industry. However, the industry saw a great downfall in its time, but it never failed to emerge from the period and grow equally at a fast rate.

The novel coronavirus that emerged in 2020 has presented many circumstances and raised several serious questions about the future of the hospitality industry. Thus, the whole world saw a decline in an era where the hospitality industry is trying to get back to its level of progress. This book is a small attempt at the entire past epidemic and pandemic that took place and hence impacted the industry. The segment of the book shares the measures and strategies along with several other recommendations to tackle the situation. It focuses on both the outbreaks of epidemics and pandemics. It is in the interest of students seeking the hospitality industry, and its up and down during epidemics.