TRAVEL AGENCIES TO REFOCUS

ON CORONAVIRUS-FREE DESTINATIONS

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & TRADE

PREPARED BY: GROUP 2

MOJICO, BERNIE

DECENA, JAMES BON

SALASIM, HAJARA

DABALMAT, PIA

CONSUELO, RONIEL

PRESENTED TO:

ATTY. BEBS GARDUQUE

FEBRUARY 01, 2020

Travel agencies to refocus on coronavirus-free destinations

By CNN Philippines Staff Published Jan 31, 2020 7:41:10 PM

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 31) — Travel agencies remain

positive in light of the novel coronavirus outbreak as they look to other
virus-free destinations, an industry leader said.

"It's gonna be business as usual to other destinations that are not affected
by the virus. So there are countries that are still free from the virus, and
that is where the focus would be, if this is going to continue for a longer
period of time," Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA) President
Ritchie Tuano said in an interview with CNN Philippines' "Business Roundup."

Tuano said the lockdown implemented by the Chinese government on some

areas is a significant loss to tourism, but he added other markets may take
up the slack.

According to 2019 data, there were 1.6 million Chinese visitors who spent
around $980 million.

Meanwhile, the Tourism Department has vowed to ramp up marketing

efforts in promoting virus-free destinations both locally and abroad.

Tuano recalled that the Asia Pacific region suffered a 60 percent drop in air
travelduring the 2003 SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic
but the region recovered in less than a year.

While foreign governments have issued alerts, he said "it's still safe to
travel."

The Philippines recorded its first case of the novel coronavirus on Thursday.
A 38-year-old female Chinese national travelled from Wuhan to the
Philippines via Hong Kong and has been admitted at San Lazaro Hospital in
Manila.

There are now 140 confirmed cases of the virus in 23 countries aside from
China. The World Health Organization has declared as a public health
emergency of international concern because of the spread of the virus to
many countries.
Reference:

https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2020/1/31/travel-agency-coronavirus-free-
destinations.html

ANALYSIS:

Economical – Tourism has a variety of economic impacts. Tourists

contribute to sales, profits, jobs, tax revenues and income in an area. The
most direct effects occur within the primary tourism sectors- lodging,
restaurants, transportation, amusements, and retail trade. This may also
affect our country by decreasing of tourists that may visit here, because
they will consider of thinking having a case recorded happened last Thursday,
January 30, 2020. They might feel fear to travel across other countries,
Asian countries because of the novel coronavirus.

Business Industry (Aerospace) – Airline Companies (like Cebu Pacific)

are experiencing a decline of rates of number of tourists visiting the
Philippines as an impact of the novel Coronavirus on the travel and tourism
industry. This leads to low number of revenue earns by airline companies
and may decline as days passed by. But there is also a chance of re-
enforcing of plan as their combat to the leading problem caused by novel
coronavirus as well as the past volcanic eruption of Taal.

Individual – There would be some negative impact of it on our local tour

guides in local places here in the Philippines. Because of the issue of
Coronavirus and Taal Eruption this January, our government, especially
Tourism Department amends a strategy on focusing Coronavirus-free
destinations as they will limit the number of tourists from other countries
(particularly from Provinces of China) to enter our border, to prevent the
infection and transmission of the virus to other tourists and local citizens of
our country. This will also result to increase of prices of the goods and other
products due to inflation caused by the novel Coronavirus. The import and
export trade will be affected because our Government will surely utilize the
number of goods entering and passing our borders. Tariffs in imports and
exports will increase the prices of goods. In result, many local citizens will
suffer. May lead to inflation