Tourism in the Post-Pandemic World : Economic Challenges and Opportunities for Asia-Pacific and the Western Hemisphere /

This departmental paper analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism in the Asia Pacific region, Latin America, and Caribbean countries. Many tourism dependent economies in these regions, including small states in the Pacific and the Caribbean, entered the pandemic with limited fiscal spa...

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Main Author: Goretti, Manuela
Other Authors: Babii, Aleksandra, Cevik, Serhan, Leigh, Lamin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021.
Series:Departmental Papers; Departmental Paper ; No. 2021/002
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Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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Summary:This departmental paper analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism in the Asia Pacific region, Latin America, and Caribbean countries. Many tourism dependent economies in these regions, including small states in the Pacific and the Caribbean, entered the pandemic with limited fiscal space, inadequate external buffers, and foreign exchange revenues extremely concentrated in tourism. The empirical analysis leverages on an augmented gravity model to draw lessons from past epidemics and finds that the impact of infectious diseases on tourism flows is much greater in developing countries than in advanced economies.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (115 pages)
Format:Mode of access: Internet
ISSN:2616-5333
Access:Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students