THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN TOURISM SERVICES IN EUROPE

Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites

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Ganna GORINA¹  Yuliia BOCHAROVA²  Tetiana KOZHUKHOVA²  Natalia IVANOVA³  Galina BOHATYRYOVA¹ 

[1] Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named After Mykhailo Tugan-Baranovsky, Tourism and Country Studies Department;Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named After Mykhailo Tugan-Baranovsky, Economics and International Economic Relations Department;Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named After Mykhailo Tugan-Baranovsky, Marketing, Management and Public Administration Department

关键词: international trade;    tourism services;    Europe;    European Union;    international tourist arrivals;    tourism market;    COVID-19;   

DOI  :  10.30892/gtg.43330-924

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Editura Universitatii din Oradea / University of Oradea Publishing House

【 摘 要 】

European tourism suffered the greatest crisis on record in 2020-2021 following an unprecedented health, social and economic emergency with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine restrictions. Thus, the aim of the article is to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on international trade in tourism services in Europe, as well as determining the development trends of international trade in tourism services in the regions of Europe and EU countries in the pre- and post-coronavirus period. To achieve the goal of the scientific research a quantitative research method, literature review method, retrospective analysis, statistical analysis has been used. In the study, secondary data of the international tourist arrivals in Europe, export/import of tourism services by European regions and EU in the pre-coronavirus and post-coronavirus period has been analyzed. The following trends have been identified: 1) an undulating trend in tourism exports in Europe in general, and European regions in particular, characterized by regional differentiation; 2) an alternation of peaks and troughs in the volume of imports of tourism services in Europe and a reversal of the main upward downward trend in all regions of Europe in 2020; 3) a differentiation of the response of European regions to the challenges of 2020 - regions with a passive trade balance showed a reduction in the deficit, while regions with an active trade balance, on the contrary, reduced its surplus; 4) a differentiation of the share of import/export of tourism services of total trade in services by regions of Europe with a gradual upward trend and a rapid downward trend break in 2020.

【 授权许可】

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