新冠肺炎疫情背景下拉美地区旅游业的机遇与挑战

Opportunities and Challenges of Tourism in Latin America against the Backdrop of COVID-19

2020年初开始爆发的新冠肺炎疫情,肆虐全球,给世界社会、经济、地区局势带来了巨大的冲击和挑战。作为拉丁美洲和加勒比海地区国家发展长期依赖的旅游产业,也在此次全球疫情中蒙受巨大损失。拉丁美洲和加勒比经济委员会(ECLAC)的数据显示,拉丁美洲和加勒比海地区的主要经济体游客访问量断崖式下跌近100%,失业人口大幅增加,旅游经济几近崩溃。对此,本文以“数字经济”、中国与拉丁美洲和加勒比海地区国家共同构建的“海上丝绸之路”为切入点,提出以互联网线上贸易的应用为主的数字贸易合作新模式,以及以医疗援助与虚拟旅游资源的开发利用为体现形式的中国与拉美地区在后疫情时代的合作发展新模式。

The COVID-19 epidemic that began to break out at the beginning of 2020 has ravaged the world,causing huge shocks and challenges to the social,economic and regional situation worldwide.The tourist industry,on which the development of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean has long relied,has also suffered greatly from this global epidemic.According to ECLAC data,tourist arrivals in the major economies of Latin America and the Caribbean have fallen off a cliff by nearly 100%,unemployment has increased dramatically and the tourist economy is close to collapse.In this context,taking the"digital economy"and the"Maritime Silk Route"jointly built by China and Latin-American countries as pointcuts,this paper put forward the application of the Internet online trade primarily new mode of digital trade cooperation,to medical assistance and virtual tourism resources development and utilization as reflected in the form of China and Latin America in the outbreak of the era of cooperation develop new models.