The COVID-19 outbreak has been one of the most impactful and tragic pandemics of modern times. Currently, saving lives is the absolute priority. However, we also need to begin to address the recovery process for the tourism industry in the continued presence of limitations to international and domestic travel. A disease-induced crisis is not novel in tourism. In light of these, the paper provides an in-depth discussion on how Covid-19 affects jobs, man-hours, revenue, income, and livelihood of workers, as well as owners of the tourism industry. Discussions were also made towards the impacts of this pandemic on the tourism industry and how it affect global GDP and foreign exchange earnings of countries whose economy relays significantly on tourism. The study concluded that with the prolonged lockdown, the tourism industry would continue to experience a large slide down. The paper posits that urgent policy remediation is necessary to revamp the sector and rescue it from imminent collapse and extinct and also states that governments have a role to play in its recovery efforts. Keywords: Covid-19, tourism industry, pandemic, lockdown, organization