Covid-19 Salgını Öncesi ve Sürecinde Ziyaretçi Sayılarında ve Tercihlerinde Oluşan Değişiklikler: KKTC yi Ziyaret Eden Yabancı Turistler Üzerine Bir Çalışma (Changes in Visitor Numbers and Preferences Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Study on Foreign Tourists Visiting TRNC)

Academic impressions pertaining to the “new normal” in tourism education and practice in accordance with digital technology and creativity

“…The participants generally agreed that, in the present, distance learning was safer than in-person instruction (Guden et al. , 2021a, b; Kim et al ., 2021). Other participants armed with front office experiences ( n = 4) emphasized the importance of similar front office applications, advising that today’s hotel management programs should incorporate online-based software to better synchronize with the speed of technology and transfer up-to-date knowledge to students in the process.…”

“…Certainly, the goals of tourism education should be to train future tourism professionals and also assist in the development of important educational projects to attract the attention of domestic tourists and to place more focus on sustainable tourism models such as ecotourism and heritage tourism (Edelheim, 2020; Guden et al ., 2021a, b). By the same token, tourism academics should work toward introducing and developing a sustainable tourism model that could be adopted in tourism-based destinations around the world within the scope of the “new normal” (Guden et al.…”

“…By the same token, tourism academics should work toward introducing and developing a sustainable tourism model that could be adopted in tourism-based destinations around the world within the scope of the “new normal” (Guden et al. , 2021a, b).…”