Global Journal of Management and Business Research, F: Real Estate, Event and Tourism Management, Volume 22 Issue 3

Cox’s Bazar Jammu and Kashmir Kuakata Sea Beach Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad Patenga Sea Beach Amer Fort, Jaipur Sajek Valley The Beaches of Goa Nijhum Island Periyar National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, Madurai Saint Martin Island Agra Fort Chimbuk Hill The Ellora Caves, Aurangabad c) Data Collection There are many ways of collecting data for performing research in the tourism and hospitality management sector. Many researchers in this area are using both quantitative and qualitative research method to collect data for their relevant studies. Moreover, researcher also using secondary research method for collecting data in this field. This present study adopted a secondary research methodology where the researcher collected data from books, journal articles, news articles and web pages. d) Search Strategy The researcher conducted this study by using secondary literature which has already published on this topic all around the world. More precisely, we tried to focus on the impact of COVID-19 on tourism and hospitality sector of Bangladesh and India. The researcher reviewed the literature systematically from those published in English language. The researcher searched through several electronic databases including Pub Med, Science Direct, Scopus, Emerald Insight, EBSCO, JSTOR, and Google Scholar by developing search strategies specific to their subject headings and text word. In this study, searches were conducted by using the keywords including “impact of COVID-19 on tourism and hospitality” or “impact of COVID-19 on tourism and hospitality sector of Bangladesh” or “impact of COVID- 19 on tourism and hospitality of India”. Searches were carried out with the Boolean operators “OR” and “AND” between the main phrase and the aforesaid keywords. It is noteworthy to mention that, the researcher obtained only those articles that were more likely to meet the objective of our study. Besides, the researcher also went through the reference arrangements of the selected articles which were further screened for important papers. IV. F indings & D iscussion a) COVID-19 Impacts: Evidence from Tourism and Hospitality Sector of Bangladesh and India Tourism and hospitality industry is connected with other business industries and also deals with them directly or indirectly. Transportation, aviation, accommodation is one of them. Moreover, there are lots of people who are also directly or indirectly involved with this sector. This current COVID-19 pandemic situation halted all the mentioned sectors. Here how COVID-19 would affect the tourism and hospitality industry of Bangladesh and India is presented below. b) Evidence from Bangladesh i. Impact on Tourism and Hospitality Sector of Bangladesh Since the beginning of March, 2020 the tourism and hospitality sector of Bangladesh has been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak. Eventually, the number of patients in Bangladesh with COVID-19 has continually increased since the beginning of April, 2020. As a result, from the mid-march, the Government of Bangladesh initiated strict bans on visiting tourist spots around the country. On this note, tourism and travel related activities were stagnated. Moreover, all the international flights were cancelled. All these travel restrictions and flight cancellations have led the occupancy rates of luxury hotels to decline by staggering amounts (Rahman, 2020). Figure 2: COVID-19 impact on the occupancy rate of luxury hotels [Source: The Daily Star] Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Tourism and Hospitality Sector: Evidence from the South Asian Countries 6 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Volume XXII Issue III Version I Year 2022 ( ) F © 2022 Global Journals