Coved 19 Impact on the Tourism Section in Palestine :From Financial and Geographical Perspectives
- Publication Type
- Conference Paper
- Authors
•The tourism sector has completely stopped, all tourist sites are closed, hotels and tourist residency centers are closed, all tourists leave the Palestinian territory, and tourism reservations are canceled.
•40,000 workers lost their jobs, from February until June.
•All hotels are closed,
•The foreign donation is decline by 25%
•And the government tax collection decreased by 50%
•Even the quarantine period is over, but the effect of the pandemic on the tourism sector will expected to continue until the last quarter of the year.
Since the boarders are still closed.
•Bethlehem and Jerusalem governorates are the main holy destinations for tourists coming to Palestine, due to their religious significance for followers of divine religions in general and Christian pilgrims in particular.
•During the first half of 2019, tourist sites in the West Bank witnessed an active movement of inbound visitors, resulting in 1,726,560 visits to tourist sites in the West Bank. The number of visits by inbound visitors during the first half of this year increased by 17% compared to the same period of the previous year, and increased by 23% compared to the first half of 2017.
Conference
- Conference Title
- "Impact Assessment of COVID-19 on Global Tourism"
- Conference Country
- India
- Conference Date
- June 10, 2020 - June 10, 2020
- Conference Sponsor
- This International Webinar was organized by the Department of Geography, Government Lohia College, Churu (Rajasthan), India.