The Influence of COVID-19 Epidemic on Luoyang Tourism

The COVID-19 epidemic has reduced Luoyang's tourism income and made its economic prospects bleak. The epidemic spread rapidly throughout the country, resulting in almost no harvest during the Spring Festival holiday in 2020. 17 After the outbreak of SARS, China's industrialization process was further accelerated, its industrial chain was more perfect, and its industrial dependence was high. China's economy entered a new normal from a period of rapid development. All these factors have aggravated the negative impact of the epidemic on tourism. Based on this, people in the tourism industry agree that the negative impact of this epidemic on China's tourism industry and even the global tourism industry will far exceed the SARS epidemic in 2003. If the epidemic can end in April as expected by Academician Zhong Nanshan, it will mean that there will be a gap in the tourism industry in the first quarter of 2020. A few days ago, china tourism academy conducted optimistic, benchmark and pessimistic simulation calculations on the impact of the epidemic on the tourism economy. The benchmark results show that in 2020, the total number of tourists in China will be reduced by 980 million compared with the previous year, and the total tourism revenue will be reduced by about 1.55 trillion yuan, while the total tourism revenue will be less than 500 billion yuan in 2003. Judging from the spatial structure of tourism market recovery, areas with better epidemic control will take the lead in warming up, thus making the recovery of tourism show the characteristics of spatial imbalance. In addition, the time nodes of the recovery of the three major markets are also inconsistent. According to the law of tourism market development, domestic tourism tends to pick up first, followed by outbound tourism, and inbound tourism is the latest.