The impact and recovering strategies of the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from Taiwan’s hospitality industry

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a huge threat to global public health and affected 188 countries and territories. As of May 24, 2020, it has caused a pandemic outbreak with more than 5,311,0893 confirmed infections and more than 342,104 reported deaths in 188 countries and territories worldwide. The three main intensions of this paper are: (1) Collection of limited publicly available data from the Tourism Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communications (M.O.T.C.) and the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Welfare (M.O.H.W.) followed by adoption of a nonparametric statistics method to understand the difference between epidemic and non-epidemic period, and also the correlation between the number of confirmed infections and the data related to tourist hotel operations; (2) Sort out the various relief and revitalization measures proposed by Taiwan government to the hospitality industry in response to the COVID-19 epidemic; (3) Several recovering strategies will be proposed for government agencies and related hoteliers in light of the post-COVID-19 epidemic era.