What is it about?
Vaccination is indeed one of the interventional strategies available to combat coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This study emphasizes the relevance of citizens’ acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine in assisting global recovery from the pandemic and aiding the tourism industries to return to normalcy. This study further presented the impact of COVID-19 on the tourism industry in China. Also, the study confirmed the past performance of tourism in China to the current tourism-related COVID-19 effects from a global perspective by employing Australia’s outbound tourism data from 2008 to 2020 on top 6 destinations, including China, Indonesia, New Zealand, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Why is it important?
Vaccine acceptance is relevant for the eradication of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, neighborhood and individual-level acceptance of the vaccine will help reduce the challenges facing the tourism industries and the world. The researchers recommend that authorities should strictly check the vaccination certificates of visitors. Furthermore, hoteliers should put adequate measures to monitor all visitors who visit the various tourist destinations.
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This research is very important because it highlights the repercussions of COVID-19 on individuals and industries. It demonstrate how individuals are affected through job and financial constraints in periods of economic upheaval. Policymakers my further strengthen policies regarding early detection and disease control to help prevent massive loss to affected families.
Fredrick Oteng Agyeman
Jiangsu University
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This page is a summary of: Relevance of COVID-19 vaccine on the tourism industry: Evidence from China, PLOS One, August 2022, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269200.
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