Corona pandemic as exogenous shock for international tourism: a context analysis

Tourism is a receiver and a pro-creator of the corona pandemic. Its cross-sector nature and international focus needs to analyse the impact of the new, dangerous and worldwide spread corona flu in an interdisciplinary context. Virologist and epidemiologists proposed to governments to take large scale emergency measures to curb down the pandemic. Medical professionals fought in welfare states for the first time in history for the survival of each infected individual what sets new ethical standards. The governmental hygiene measures stopped the functioning of the international tourism system. They led to a supply shock which proved that tourism related businesses and industries are less resilient or robust to master bad times than their lobbyists always pretend