Tourism and the effects of Covid-19 in the department of Huila – Colombia

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Abstract

During the first quarter of 2020, humanity received the news from the World Health Organization (WHO) that a very aggressive and deadly virus had been installed, I identify it as "covid-19", which had reached the degree of pandemic, for which security measures had to be implemented to stop the hospital emergency that arose in the world but that was definitely going to change the way things were done in all countries. In view of this situation, the general objective of this article is: Analyze the effects of Covid-19 on Tourism in Huila Colombia. It is intended to review the world bibliography to identify strategies that allow the reactivation of the tourist standards that existed in Huila before the pandemic. Regarding the methodology, the type of research chosen was the explanatory one, as for the sample, it was made up of the tourism sector of the department of Huila Colombia. The data collection technique is documentary, so the researcher uses this information for analysis, he does not create any type of instruments. Among the main results obtained were that gross sales decreased on average by 70%, according to the Colombian Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies for the year 2020. Likewise, the pandemic affected the tourist activity of the department, whose companies had to close product of those first measures implemented by the government. However, both the efforts of the service providers and the state made it possible to detect the abrupt drop in tourism. The most important aspect of this study is the response capacity that Huila had, from the economic postulates and from the resilience that allows us to infer a new conception of economic resilience.

Author Biographies

  • José Alfonso Mendoza Gallego , Universidad Surcolombiana de Neiva

    Doctorando en Dirección y Finanzas, Magister en Educación de la Diversidad, Administrador Bancario y Financiero, Tecnólogo en Gestión Comercial y Negocios, Docente Investigador Asociado (I) Minciencias, Grupo de investigación ESINSUR de la Facultad de Economía y Administración, de la Universidad Surcolombiana de Neiva – Colombia

  • Francisco Rivelino Bernal Cerquera, Universidad Surcolombiana de Neiva

    Doctorando en Pensamiento Complejo de Multiversidad Mundo Real (México) Administrador Financiero, Especialista en Alta Gerencia, Magíster en Educación, Magíster MBA en Administrador de Empresas, Docente Investigador Junior Minciencias, grupo ESINSUR de la Facultad de Economía y Administración, de la Universidad Surcolombiana de Neiva – Colombia

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Tourism and the effects of Covid-19 in the department of Huila – Colombia. (2022). Aglala, 12(2), 45-60. https://revistas.uninunez.edu.co/index.php/aglala/article/view/1942 (Original work published 2021)