CEU eTD Collection (2022); Dimitrov, Dimitar Dimchev: "The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Tourism Business in Bulgaria: Policy Approaches and Introduction of Digital Tools to Mitigate the Negative Consequences"

CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
Author Dimitrov, Dimitar Dimchev
Title "The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Tourism Business in Bulgaria: Policy Approaches and Introduction of Digital Tools to Mitigate the Negative Consequences"
Summary The aim of this paper is to present the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the tourism business in Bulgaria and the measures taken by the government, and on this basis to propose guidelines for dealing with the crisis, mainly through the use of digital technologies. The subject of the research work is the development of tourism from 2006 to 2021. The object of the study is the tourism business, which suffers the negative consequences of the unfavorable pandemic situation in the country and the world.
The development first presents the development of tourism in the period 2006-2019 before the introduction of restrictive anti-epidemiological measures in the country and respectively after
2020 and 2021. Second, it is presented a summary of how the pandemic affected tourism businesses and how owners reacted to protect their business. Thirdly, proposals have been made to overcome the negative impacts and overcome the crisis situation through the use of modern digital technologies. Fourth are the measures taken by the government in Bulgaria to support the tourism business and the tourism sector. In the fifth place, based on a study, recommendations were made to the Ministry of Tourism in Bulgaria on measures to consider their implementation.
Supervisor Torotcoi, Simona
Department Romani Studies Ps
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