The consequences of the ‘Coronavirus’ on the tourism economy in China

The need to propose and stabilize new collaborations between international airlines to promote connections and shorten the distances between Europe, America and Asia, has also been requested by China since 2015, for the purpose of economic increase, leveraging tourism and business relationships.

The adverse event of the ‘Coronavirus’ epidemic in China, which has caused serious consequences on a humanitarian level, on the local population and beyond, has also blocked the borders and the possibility of encouraging economic expectations as set with a drop of 40% in the air transport sector.

A partnership solution, estimated for 2020, which would have further favored tourism in the USA, whose cities include Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Europe with a global total of around 1.2 billion travellers.

Therefore, the idea of ​​a more competitive Chinese airline market on an international and not just domestic level, thanks also to low-cost airlines, such as the recent Air Asia China and proposed partnerships with Lufthansa or Air Swiss, is still, at least temporarily, in a stalemate.

In conjunction with the epidemic, the economic-cultural purposes that had been set with a series of events for the celebration of the Italy-China year of culture and tourism and the improvements of the airport facilities in China were not enough to stop the serious consequences that the ‘Coronavirus’ has reported in all sectors.

Chengdu Airport, for example, was built strategically to promote and increase the economy and integration of Sichuan province and the ‘Yangtse River Economic Belt’.
Furthermore, the recent facilitations of the immigration visa and expatriation conditions dated 2019 have been thus stopped.

An evolution of the situation is expected soon which will bring us certain data on the economic and humanitarian level which has involved China in the foreground at an international level.