Impact of COVID-19 on Hotel and Tourism Industry in India: Challenges and Opportunities

India is known worldwide due to its incredible heritage and natural attraction with a beautiful culture engaged with different languages and traditions. Tourism is an industry as a channel of exchange of different culture among the people of a country and between the people of different parts of the world. Hotel and tourism is the one of the largest contributing sector for the economic development of a nation, but the COVID-19 crisis is putting restrictions, challenging their survival, and limiting their growth. The purpose of this paper is to address the impact of COVID on the hotel and tourism sector as well as challenges and opportunities for continue successful survival of hotel & tourism industry in India. Finally, major problems are identified and recommendations are given to enhancing the sustainable improvement of the hotel and tourism industry in India to overcome from this pandemic crisis. The paper recommended that the entire related stakeholder including Government, policy makers, business owner and staff of the tourism industry, visitors, and academicians should take collective actions to enhancing the sustainable improvement of the hotel and tourism sector