Impact of COVID-19 on Ecotourism in India and Egypt: A Comparative Analysis

Deepanjali Mishra (), Hassan Refaat and Rabi Narayan Subudhi ()
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Deepanjali Mishra: KIIT University Bhubaneswar
Hassan Refaat: Luxor University
Rabi Narayan Subudhi: KIIT Bhubaneswar

A chapter in Future of Work and Business in Covid-19 Era, 2022, pp 199-209 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, was first detected in Hubei, a province in China in a wet market way back in November 2019. After that, it has spread all over the world like a bonfire. One of the hugely affected sectors during this pandemic is tourism industry. It was all of a sudden tourists were barred to come in and go out of their country by the government. All major tourist and religious places were closed in most of the countries, for months together, even for their own nationals. Ecotourism has been one of the most important tourism patterns as it focuses on enhancing the principles of sustainable tourism by ensuring the satisfaction of the traveler's and hosting communities while enhancing the appreciation and conservation of natural resources, trying to adopt its tourism offerings to suit the updates of the tourism sector during and after COVID-19; all the tourism destinations around the world have given too much attention to ecotourism as it is expected that ecotourism will flourish because of the major changes that has been caused by COVID-19 as it is expected that the tourism preference patterns will change to less crowded and nature-oriented ones. India and Egypt are the two countries which have similarities in culture and are situated in Asia. They share nearly similar cultures, history and ethnicity. Both countries faced the first wave of COVID-19 at a similar time, and the havoc caused was more or less comparable. The study was conducted in both countries on the basis of the common questionnaire that was asked to the participants in written as well as in oral form who comprised of population of different profession and sphere. The main objectives of this paper are to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on ecotourism in India and Egypt. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with the governmental and private tourism professionals in both countries to explore the current status of ecotourism in both India and Egypt and know their opinion about to which extent ecotourism could be used as a very effective tool to overcome the challenges that have been created by COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; Tourism; Ecotourism; Environment; Ecology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-0357-1_17

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