4 Analysis of Consumer’s Attitudes to a Range of Tourism Activities and Destinations in the Light of COVID-19 Crisis

DOI: 10.4324/9781003268963-5

4.1 The empirical data

4.1.1 Effects of COVID-19 on tourism

The initial appearance of COVID-19 and its European spread in 2020 changed the lives of millions of people,1 causing human suffering and significant loss in Italy and around the world, in particular, in the tourism sector.2 Although tourism has an incomparable capacity for resilience, unlike previous crises, the world is now facing an unprecedented emergency. The tourism sector has proved to be a very vulnerable sector, subjected to high constraints, that is heavily affected by the unexpected, such as this most recent and sudden crisis. ...

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