THE IMPACT OF EPIDEMICS AND PANDEMICS TOURISM ESSAYChanges in the human behaviour and life style over the last century have resulted in an increase of epidemics and pandemics all around th 5278 WORDS
THE IMPACT OF EPIDEMICS AND PANDEMICS TOURISM ESSAYChanges in the human behaviour and life style over the last century have resulted in an increase of epidemics and pandemics all around th 5278 WORDS
THE IMPACT OF EPIDEMICS AND PANDEMICS TOURISM ESSAY
5278 WORDS
Changes in the human behaviour and life style over the last century have resulted in an increase of epidemics and pandemics all around the world. The spread of infectious diseases among the population is commonly known as epidemics or pandemics. The difference between these two terminologies are related to the number of people which is affected, a pandemic is affected a far higher number of people (two fold) compared to epidemic. Swine flu is considered as pandemic, which affected very badly in 2009 most of the countries in the world especially in Mexico and United States. There are a number of incidents reported over the years such as the avian flu affected in 2006, 1968 Hong Kong flu, 1957 Asian flu and the 1918 Spanish flu; which is considered as the most infamous, killed around 40 million people around the world.
As we can see from the previous epidemics and pandemics affected the world, the number of people affected and died was not many as compared to other tragedies, just the fear about the panic among the society can produce a substantial impact on the global economy. For example the flu pandemic occurred in 1918 have estimated to kill at least 2.5% of the world population. If we calculate this with the current population the result would shows about 170 million deaths worldwide. As a result of this most of the people limited their travelling with some other alternatives. The crisis very badly affecting the tourism industry thus the country’s economy.
Also on the other hand due pandemic the population of a particular country will go down and a marginal decrease in demand will occur. If the demand is less than the price will go down, this will lead to a bad economic situation. This could lead to the shortage of employees on affected areas and will directly affect the business revenue and the country’s economy. To prevent the spreading of viruses and the treatments government need to invest money on the medical side to cover the cost.