Song Rui: Enterprise self rescue, industry mutual aid, government rescue linkage to deal with COVID-19

At present, it has become an important task for all walks of life to strive to achieve the double victories of COVID-19 prevention and economic society development. Song Rui, director of Tourism Research Center, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that compared with catering, retail and other service industries, the COVID-19 had a greater impact on the tourism industry. "From the perspective of the three major markets of domestic tourism, inbound tourism and outbound tourism, it has the greatest impact on inbound tourism." She pointed out that on the whole, the impact of the COVID-19 on tourism economy is about 20% - 30%. From the perspective of enterprises, it has a great impact on small and medium-sized enterprises.

In the face of this sudden shock, how should we deal with it? Song Rui expressed her view that "While the government departments are preventing and controlling the development of the COVID-19, they have quickly and intensively issued policies on finance and taxation, labor security, etc. From the national level to the local level, a fixed model has been formed. The future policy space should be mainly at the local level. Local governments will formulate more targeted support policies according to the local financial strength, industrial structure and the importance of tourism. Of course, it is not enough to rely on the government to save the market, enterprises and industries are also taking active action. It is our consensus to deal with the current COVID-19 situation that the enterprise saves itself, the industry helps each other and the government saves the city. "

At present, some experts mentioned that after the COVID-19, the tourism industry will have a "retaliatory rebound". In her view, it should be treated rationally. "The historical situation shows that the market growth rate of the National Day holiday after the SARS epidemic in 2003 is only 1%, which is not as big as expected and imagined. This year, the length of students' school hours and holidays is uncertain, so we should be rational about the time, extent and range of the rebound. "

In addition, she reminded that in the face of the merger and acquisition boom and reshuffle in subdivided areas, it is necessary to make psychological preparations and deal with the possibility of bad investment in projects under construction and projects under construction.

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Song Rui

Song Rui is a specially appointed expert of World Tourism Cities Federation, Director of the Tourism Research Center, Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS) and a Research Fellow of the National Academy of Economic Strategy, CASS. Her research fields are sustainable tourismand leisure research.