<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><article><front><Journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type='publisher'>CWE/2167/2022</journal-id><journal-title >Current World Environment</journal-title><issn pub-type='PPub'>0973-4929</issn><issn pub-type='ePub'>2320-8031</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Enviro Research Publishers</publisher-name></publisher></Journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type='other'>CWE--84-00</article-id><title-group><article-title>&lt;p&gt;COVID-19 Pandemic- A Ray of Hope towards Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism&lt;/p&gt;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type='author'><name><surname></surname><given-names></given-names></name><xref ref-type='aff' rid='aff00'><sup></sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type='ppub'><publicationDate></publicationDate></pub-date><doi>10.12944/CWE.17.1.16</doi><volume>Volume 17</volume><issue>Volume 17</issue><page>179-184</page><abstract><title>Abstract</title><p>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;As the world wrestles with the pandemic and the travel industry comes to a standstill, stories via online media are surfacing that guarantee untamed life is getting back to isolated urban areas and that the Earth is recuperating itself. Millions are confronting the possibility of joblessness, a worldwide financial downturn is on the cards, medical services frameworks are being over-burden as contaminations develop dramatically, and disease transmission experts caution that, conceivably, a great many individuals could bite the dust. The travel and tourism industry and the environment are firmly connected.The travel industry research is beginning to look into especially as it connects with environmental change. Since the COVID-19 pandemic carried the travel industry to an edge, this is beneficial for the recuperation of the environment for the time being, because of pandemic-related travel limitations queues to observe nature have vanished. But, amid the entirety of this catastrophe, a brief look at something positive has shown up.&lt;/p&gt;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><title>Keywords</title><kwd>COVID-19 (coronavirus disease)</kwd><kwd> NBT (Nature-Based Tourism)</kwd><kwd> SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)</kwd><kwd> STEEP model (Social, Technological, Economical, Environmental and Political)</kwd><kwd> TandT industry (Travel and Tourism industry)</kwd></kwd-group><counts><ref-count count='' /><page-count count='' /></counts></article-meta></front></article>