The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which is one of its kind of humanitarian disasters, has affected people and businesses worldwide, triggering a global economic crisis. In this aspect, the tourism sector is not being left behind. However, the Covid-19 pandemic is of the highest magnitude in the last 100 years. The tourism industry is one of the largest service sectors, including hospitality, transportation, food and beverage and associated tourism products. It provides an opportunity to participate in commercial activities to small- and medium-scale entrepreneurs and employ vast numbers of skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workforce. Due to the shutdown of the tourism industry, some developing economies like India and underdeveloped economies have crumbled and face enormous loss in terms of income and employment.
ATSPB planned for a symbolic demonstration of plight of our Travel Agents, Tour Operators, Hoteliers amd many more directly or indirectly connected to tourism along with our commitment to tourism at 12 Noon, 1st Sep’ 2020 in front of Victoria Memorial Hall,Kolkata. On that programme shared positive messages for Tourists & Travelers, that we are 100% ready to serve the tourism industry with the highest possible safety measures. At the same time tried to convince our Govt. so that they can help us with an awareness campaign to save our tourism industry. We requested our members to join hands in this effort to make it a success and further help make the event viral across all the social platforms.
Press Meet were also arranged at Press Club Kolkata on 15th of July 2022 along with other leading toursim associations like TAAB. EIHTAA and ETAA to protest against a leading bengali daily for publishing misleading news making the tourism sector responsible for the spread of Covid.
