How pandemics affect tourism: International evidence

Gokhan Karabulut; Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin; Ender Demir; Asli Cansin Doker

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2020.102991

How pandemics affect tourism: International evidence

Ann Tour Res. 2020 Sep:84:102991. doi: 10.1016/j.annals.2020.102991. Epub 2020 Jul 18.

Authors

Gokhan Karabulut¹, Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin², Ender Demir³, Asli Cansin Doker⁴

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Economics, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
² Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey.
³ Faculty of Tourism, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁴ Faculty of Economics & Administrative Sciences, Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan, Turkey.

Abstract

•We examine how pandemics affects tourist arrivals.•The paper is the first to use newly developed "Discussion about Pandemics Index".•We find that pandemic decreases tourist arrivals.•This effect exists only for low-income economies.