Travel for tourism and pleasure activities has become a distant dream of travel lovers and pleasure seekers since March 2020 with the massive outbreak and spread of Novel-Coronavirus all across the globe. The blanket cover over the tourism industry is not going to hurt only the travellers but millions of people also who depend massively on travel and tourism industry directly or indirectly. It is still unknown that when the things will get bounce back to normalcy. One thing is clear, the time takes to overcome the damage made by the Covid induced lockdown in all sectors will be longer than expected. Travel and hospitality industry is one of the sectors that has deeply tasted the bitterness of the pandemic. The developing countries are going to be the worst-hit in terms of loss of revenue as they depend travel and hospitality industry heavily. Kerala state in India is going to lose massively the income from tourism at least in the couple of years. It would not be insignificant a...
Assistant Professor of Economics, M.E.S. Mampad College (Autonomous), Kerala, India