Tourism and COVID-19

Tourism and COVID-19

Impacts, Responses, and Realignments

Edited by Richard W. Butler
Hardback
September 2024
9781800626140
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    CABI
  • ISBN 9781800626140
  • Language English
  • Pages 208 pp.
  • Size 6" x 9"
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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global tourism industry were unprecedented. International travel fell by 72% in 2020, the worst year on record for tourism. Tourism operations, from family businesses to national tourism organizations all faced potential economic ruin. They had to adapt their business practices and adopt new ways of operating, in order to work around ever-changing restrictions. This book is comprised of chapters and case studies previously published by CABI, that deal with the impacts of, and responses to, the COVID-19 pandemic, along with specially written introductory and concluding chapters that provide context. It provides invaluable snapshots of reactions to the pandemic from individuals and organizations involved in a variety of forms of tourism. Many authors have included postscripts, to record or update their views following the end of the pandemic.

Key themes and issues addressed include: anticipation of and preparedness for the pandemic, the scale of the problem, the adjustments made during the pandemic, likely future directions of change and the implications for sustainability. The book is a useful resource for researchers, students and practitioners in tourism, hospitality and related disciplines.


1. Introduction
The Impacts of COVID-19: Selected Examples
2. The Effect of the Coronavirus on Garden Tourism
3. COVID-19 and Elephant Tourism, a Preliminary Analysis
4. Sustainability of Artists and Craft Persons During COVID-19: A Case Study of Kalakriti Creations
5. COVID-19 a Disaster for Heritage Business Models –Victoria & Albert Museum Case Study
6. Managing Events and Festivals Post-COVID-19: Maintaining the Status Quo or Resetting for the Sustainability Agenda
7. Conclusions: Pilgrimage during and after the pandemic crisis
COVID-19 Pandemic Responses by the Tourism Industry
8. Developing Virtual Tourism in the Wake of COVID-19: A Critical Function of Tourism Destination Management Organizations
9. Why Workers Are Not Returning to the Hospitality and Tourism Industry: a Turning Point
10. Increasing Tourism Resilience with Digital Engagement in the Hotel Industry
11. A Comparative Study of Waste Management Practices in Pre-COVID and During-COVID Scenarios: An Overview of the Hotel Industry
12. Public Opinion on Quarantine Hotels: a Question of Corporate Social Responsibility
13. Surviving through the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of iFLY Queenstown
Post-COVID-19: Adjustments and Realignments
14. Sociocultural Dimensions of Destination Resilience and Implications for Innovative Product Design in Experimental Destinations in Germany, Italy and Ireland
15. Tourism Development: From ‘Please Come’ to ‘Please Go’ to ‘Please Come Back’ (After the Virus)
16. Looking Ahead
17. Degrowth
18. Tourism and Development in the Face of Uncertainty and Chaos
19. Conclusions and Implications

Richard W. Butler

Richard W. Butler was educated at Nottingham University and the University of Glasgow (Ph.D. Geography 1973), and spent thirty years at the University of Western Ontario in Canada as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Geography, and then the University of Surrey, where he was Professor of Tourism from 1997 to 2005. He is currently Emeritus Professor of International Tourism in the Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has published a large number of journal articles, fourteen books on tourism and many chapters in other books. His fields of interest are the development process of tourist destinations, the impacts of tourism, carrying capacity and sustainability, and tourism in remote areas and islands.

Tourism and COVID-19; Hospitality and COVID-19; Quarantine hotels; tourism resilience; tourism development; tourism pandemic planning; corporate social responsibility and COVID-19; virtual tourism; tourism destination management and COVID-19