Changes in the human behaviour and life style over the last century have resulted in an increase of epidemics and pandemics all around the world. The spread of infectious diseases among the population is commonly known as epidemics or pandemics. The difference between these two terminologies are related to the number of people which is affected, a pandemic is affected a far higher number of people (two fold) compared to epidemic. Swine flu is considered as pandemic, which affected very badly in 2009 most of the countries in the world especially in Mexico and United States. There are a number of incidents reported over the years such as the avian flu affected in 2006, 1968 Hong Kong flu, 1957 Asian flu and the 1918 Spanish flu; which is considered as the most infamous, killed around 40 million people around the world.<\/p>\n
As we can see from the previous epidemics and pandemics affected the world, the number of people affected and died was not many as compared to other tragedies, just the fear about the panic among the society can produce a substantial impact on the global economy. For example the flu pandemic occurred in 1918 have estimated to kill at least 2.5% of the world population. If we calculate this with the current population the result would shows about 170 million deaths worldwide. As a result of this most of the people limited their travelling with some other alternatives. The crisis very badly affecting the tourism industry thus the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n
Also on the other hand due pandemic the population of a particular country will go down and a marginal decrease in demand will occur. If the demand is less than the price will go down, this will lead to a bad economic situation. This could lead to the shortage of employees on affected areas and will directly affect the business revenue and the country\u2019s economy. To prevent the spreading of viruses and the treatments government need to invest money on the medical side to cover the cost.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.wisebread.com\/economic-effects-of-pandemic-flu-in-a-recession<\/p>\n
http:\/\/web.worldbank.org\/WBSITE\/EXTERNAL\/COUNTRIES\/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT\/EXTEAPREGTOPHEANUT\/0,,contentMDK:20713527~pagePK:34004173~piPK:34003707~theSitePK:503048,00.html<\/p>\n
Tourism and hospitality industry around the world is very badly affecting by pandemics, because of the nature of the business which is always related to the travelling of people. As history shows, epidemics and pandemics has an immediate impact on the hotels and restaurants, airlines industries etc, due to the international travel restrictions, media alarmist tones and government measures. While people making a decision on whether or not to travel to a particular country, they also concerned about the health care systems at the destination.<\/p>\n
On the other hand there are chances to face a shortage of employees if they affected, this might result in the organizational performance. Also the multinational organizations limits their business executive\u2019s travelling to the affected countries, this creates marginal decreases on the demand for hotel rooms and airlines. As we can understand from previous incidents, most of the countries tighten their securities especially at the airports in terms of any pandemics reported.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-the-difference-between-an-epidemic-and-a-pandemic.htm<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-pandemic-flu.html<\/p>\n
Mexico is one of the dream destinations for tourists around the world, which is considered as a land of contrasts. Mexico has a historic tradition of more than 3,000 years and a diverse in its climatic conditions, makes the country an ideal destination for both domestic and international tourists. The main tourism activities include beach tourism, adventure tourism, magic towns, social tourism, business tourism etc. Mexico has the world\u2019s seventh largest hotel industry with 10.400 hotels or 430,000 rooms. The income generating through the tourism seems to be increasing over the years since 1980.<\/p>\n
The industry experienced a huge growth over last one decade before the global economic recession and swine flu pandemic.<\/p>\n
In 1994 7.2 million foreign tourists visited Mexico, if we count the number of people who crossed the border zone the figure rose to 17.1 million. During 1995 around 20 million people visited Mexico; united States contribute 80% of these travellers.<\/p>\n
Based on the Mexico\u2019s Tourism Secretariat report, in March 2004 foreign travellers to Mexico generated revenue of more than $ 1 billion revenue in one month. They also revealed there were 5.2 million international tourists visited during the first quarter of 2004, an increase of 14.6 % compared to the previous year. And the international tourism revenue for the year totalled $10.84 billion.<\/p>\n
In 2006 Mexico received 21.35 international visitors, compared to 2005 a 2.6% drop because of the lack of room availability due to the damaged caused by the Hurricane Wilma at Mexican Caribbean during late 2005.But the revenue generated during this season hit the record $12.18 billion, a 3.2% growth compared to 2005 as a result of the excellent marketing strategy.<\/p>\n
The revenue received from the cruises passengers also increased in 2006 to 458.3 million dollars, compared to 452.6 million dollars in the previous year.<\/p>\n
In 2007 the total number of tourists visited in Mexico was 21.4 million; this is a bit disappointing because the rate seems almost as same as the year 2006, instead of a forecast for 22.03 million. Ministry of tourism evaluated the situation and a number of reasons behind this such as the current security situation because of the violence in the US border, which limited the cross border activities and the US economy, were slowly going down due to the global recession. Both of this limited the number of travellers coming from united sates.<\/p>\n
In the first half of the 2008 Mexico survived from the last years set back, the first seven months of the year Mexico received $8.475 million foreign currency, an increase of 6.3 % than the same period in 2007.During this time they received almost 14 million foreign tourists with an increase of 5.2% compared to 2007.<\/p>\n
\nMexico Tourism Indicators Up for the First Half of 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n