Lessons from COVID-19 can prepare global tourism for the economic transformation needed to combat climate change
By B. Prideaux, Michelle Thompson, Anja Pabel. Tourism Geographies, 2020
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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic led to the cessation of almost all international travel in the first half of 2020. A return to pre-pandemic growth patterns will take time and depend on the depth and extent of the recession sparked by COVID-19. The recovery phase will overlap with global efforts to deal with the evolving climate crisis. For the tourism industry to thrive in a future world it must look beyond the temptation of adopting strategies based on a return to the pre-COVID-19 normal of the past and instead seek to understand how it should respond to the emerging transformation of the global economy to carbon neutrality. Many of the lessons that emerged from the pandemic can be applied to strategies to deal with climate change. Of most interest is the success of strategies such as “flattening the curve”. Application of similar strategies plus adoption of the circular economy model to wind back Green House Gas emissions will help avert the global environmental disaster that will occur if global temperatures continue to increase. These strategies point to what a future carbon-neutral economic production system might look like, the path to which could offer the tourism industry numerous opportunities to transform from the current model that favours a high resource consumption model to one that is environmentally friendly and resource neutral.
Subfields: Demography, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science
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- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural tourism in Czechia Preliminary considerations (2020, background): “Most recent analyses relate to the global impact of COVID-19 on international tourism (Prideaux et al., 2020).”
- Reviving tourism industry post-COVID-19: A resilience-based framework (2020, unknown): “According to Renaud (2020), the industry of cruise tourism should approve a “local mobility” model, which means that large cruise ships will be forbidden, but a fleet of smaller ships will be allowed.”
- Perceived social impacts of tourism and quality-of-life: a new conceptual model (2020, background): “This has led to a number of initiatives including regional and domestic tourism (Carr, 2020; Prideaux et al., 2020) in several countries.”