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acti ona s e r i o u s r i s k t o t h e m a c r o e c o n o m y t h r o u g h t h e s t o p o f
p r o d u c ti o n a c ti v i ti e s o b s t a c l e o f people’s movement and cut-
off of supply chain. Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak isdisrupting world trade
and could result in a 50-billion-dollar decrease in exports across globalvalue
chains. The trade impact of the coronavirus epidemic for India is
esti mated to be about3 4 8 m i l l i o n d o l l a r s a n d t h e c o u n t r y fi g u r e s
a m o n g t h e t o p 1 5 e c o n o m i e s m o s t aff e c t e d a s slowdown of
manufacturing in China disrupts world trade.
C o r o n a v i r u s h a s d is r u p t e d t h e d e m an d
a n d s u p p l y c h a in a c r o s s t h e c o u n t r y an d w i t h t h is d i s r u p ti o n i t
c a n b e s e e n t h a t t h e t o u r i s m , h o s p i t a l i t y , an d a v i a ti o n s e c t o r s
a r e am o n g t h e w o r s t a ff e c t e d s e c t o r s t h a t ar e f a c i n g t h e
m a x i m u m i m p a c t o f t h e current crisis.
In the early days of the outbreak, the media, medical experts and health
professionals werereferring to "the coronavirus" as a catch-all term to discuss
the outbreak of illness. But acoronavirus is a
type
of virus as we explain in the section above, rather than a disease itself.To
alleviate the confusion and streamline reporting, WHO has named the new
disease COVID-19(for corona virusdisease 2019)
"Having a name matters to prevent the use of other namesthat can be inaccurate
or stigmatizing," said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-generalof the
WHO. "It also gives us a standard format to use for any future coronavirus
outbreaks."
Perhaps the most visible and immediate impact of Covid-19 is seen in the hotel
and tourism sector in all its geographicalsegments - inbound, outbound and
domestic and almost all verticals - leisure, adventure, heritage, MICE, cruise
andcorporate. Given various travel restrictions imposed by the Indian
Government as well as Governments across the globe,forward bookings for
various conferences and leisure travel bookings to foreign destinations have
already been cancelled.In India, most of the summer holiday bookings have
been cancelled (about 40-50% most of which was to states of Kerala, Rajasthan
and Goa) impacting the domestic tourism. The impact on the inbound and
outbound passengers is expected tobe most severe in the next couple of
quarters.
India’s total foreign tourist arrivals (FTA) stood at 10.9 millio
n and the foreign exchange earnings (FEE) stood at Rs 210,971crore during
2019 with Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi accounting for
about 60% of FTAs. However,now with travel restrictions in India for over 80
countries and most of the flights of major airlines being suspended ALONG
with lockdown in states of India till March 31, 2020, the Indian domestic as
well as foreign travel and tourism industry isexpected to witness a sharp
negative impact in 2020.Assuming the impact to be about 50% during January
and February 2020, while the impact being higher at about 70%during March
2020 post the suspension of international flights and about 100% during Q2
2020 (April
–
June 2020) on theoverall foreign travellers with travel advisories being put out,
the Indian tourism industry is expected to book revenues ofRs 69,400 crore
during H1 2020, a y-o-y loss of over 30% during the period. During H2 2020,
assuming the virus impactsubsides, we expect FTAs to still be lower affecting
the FEEs by about 50% to reach Rs 56,150 crore vis-à-vis Rs 112,300crore
during H2 2019.
Therefore, for the year 2020, the industry is expected to book a revenue loss of Rs
125,550 crore,loss of over 40% y-o-y.
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he outbreak of Corona virus has seriously affected businesses across the globe
whichare operating in fear of an impending collapse of global financial markets.
The impact ofthis situation will be longstanding causing collapse of some while
generating newopportunities of others. The world will see major disruptions in
how businesses willoperate in future taking into consideration the negative
effects of globalization andoverdependency of global value chains on few
countries like China.Looking at the exponential growth of COVID-19 all over
the world and foreseeing suchimpact on India’s densely populated 1.3
billion people India took timely decisions to firstrestrict travel and eventually
the country went into complete lockdown on March 25,2020, the largest and
harshest in the world, restricting 1.3 billion people. While thelockdown, now
extended till May 17, 2020 (54 days) has helped the country to mitigatethe
overwhelming growth of the virus, it has shaken the economy leading to
majorslowdown.Sectors like travel & tourism, hospitality, automobiles, finance
and real estate andprofessional services are estimated to be hardest hit by the
coronavirus (COVID-19)epidemic in India between April and June 2020
compared to the same period in 2019.Comparatively, sectors like pharma and IT
are in a better position
.