Tourism in retrospect of COVID-19 on global perspective using analytical hierarchy process

Covid-19 pandemic has brought remarkable shocks over tourism globally. In case of tourism such experience of epidemic is quite new in terms of time gestation. Even world agencies cannot estimate the amount of loss and fails to predict the full pace running stage of the sector. The study tries to estimate the impact of pandemic over the tourism. Rather than these, the main aspect of the study is to formulate a rank resulted by tourism impact of the studied countries over its economics considering the variables like GDP share of tourism and number of tourist arrivals (2017, 2018 and 2019), tourism dependency rate, tourism competitive index, jobs directly depends on tourism and contribution of tourism in terms of international receipts. The study uses Analytical Hierarchical Process to estimate the impact of Covid-19 over tourism. Results shows the countries with higher dependencies over tourism severely affected and those results are in linearity.