{"title":"THE ROLE OF TRAVEL HEALTH INSURANCE IN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT - CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES","authors":"Danijela Glušac","doi":"10.52370/tisc21145dg","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52370/tisc21145dg","url":null,"abstract":"Travel health insurance is insurance for travellers during their travel and stay in a foreign country in case of necessary assistance in connection with the arrangement and provision of necessary treatment, transport to the medical institution or country of residence, due to sudden illness or injury of the insured. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic mainly affected this area of insurance, and therefore, insurers were presented with challenges. The need for research on travel health insurance can be seen in the complexity of the relationships, types and modalities. The author analyses the essential characteristics of this type of insurance, indicating the legislative framework and contract regulation in general and special conditions of insurers. This paper aims at contributing to research of travel health insurance. This study will significantly to the limited literature on travel health insurance, and it will have an implication on the insurance sector for further diversification of their products.","PeriodicalId":378776,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CHALLENGES AMID COVID-19","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126890556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 CRISIS ON ROMANIAN TOURISM","authors":"Ancuța Marin, S. Rodino","doi":"10.52370/tisc2146am","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52370/tisc2146am","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the evaluation of the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis on tourism in Romania with a focus on the market effects and the impact on tourism operators. The onset of the COVID-19 health crisis in March 2020 led to restrictions on the movement of people, which led to behavioral changes in accommodation as well as in the behavior of tourists (tourism consumers). The objective of this paper is to analyse the changes in the hospitality industry sector, highlighting the changes in the behavior of turism consumers.","PeriodicalId":378776,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CHALLENGES AMID COVID-19","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126226452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID CRISIS AND TOURISM EVOLUTION IN SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: ADAPT TO REALITIES OR REINVENT THE FUTURE?","authors":"Jean Vasile Andrei, Mihaela Cristina Drăgoi","doi":"10.52370/tisc2129ja","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52370/tisc2129ja","url":null,"abstract":"The health crisis has exerted a significant pressure on the global economic system, implicitly on the evolution of tourism, value chain creation and supply chains, generating shocks on various national economic sectors. In this context, the objective of the paper is to make a brief synoptic analysis on the evolution of the tourism sector in some EU countries. Two periods of time were considered - before the onset of the pandemic (2018-2019) and during the pandemic (in 2020). The results of the analysis confirm the specific trends of reducing the multiplicative effects that tourism has on the economy as well as the decrease, even contracting of the sector, a phenomenon identified through specific analyzed indicators.","PeriodicalId":378776,"journal":{"name":"TOURISM CHALLENGES AMID COVID-19","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129420667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}