SINGAPORE: According to the latest research by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to put some 75 million jobs in the global tourism industry at risk Moreover, the pandemic will create a loss of 21 trillion US dollars in travel and tourism GDP to the world economy The findings show that around one million jobs are lost each day in the travel and tourism industry caused by the sweeping effect of the novel coronavirus epidemic Asia-Pacific is expected to the hardest-hit region with nearly 49 million travel and tourism jobs at risk, marking a loss of nearly 800 billion US dollars to its tourism GDP In Europe, over 10 million jobs at risk with [...]