Global Tourism and COVID-19

This exploratory study charts the transformation of the tourism sector caused by the COVID-19 crisis. The article dissects five key domains of industry transformation: accelerated digitalisation, business model flexibility, human resources, travel restrictions, and risk perception and crisis management. It delineates the industry's changes, adaptations, and associated challenges in each domain. A review and content analysis of 240 publicly available online documents was conducted. The results provide managerial implications and avenues for future research in tourism, including the hybridisation of tourism products, transformation of the service encounter style, adaptation to a shifting travel mode, and increased risk awareness and preparedness.

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confidence: 99%

The Impacts of Covid-19 on the Tourism Sector

Brozović

Saito

2022

“…As the world is gradually recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic that has inflicted various damages to the global economy, the tourism industry remains one of the most affected sectors. After the initially reported cases emerged from Wuhan, a Chinese mainland city, in late 2019, the virus has spread to other countries, thereby affecting the global tourism ecosystem, air travel, and individual vacation plans, among others (Harchandani & Shome, 2021;Gössling et al, 2020;Čorak et al, 2020;Peluso & Pichierri, 2020;Uğur & Akbıyık, 2020). The unfortunate global health crisis has resulted in a major setback in economic activities across the globe while Over the years, tourism and transportation have remained two closely related entities with interwoven economic activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Significance of Air Transport to Tourism-Induced Growth Hypothesis in E7 Economies

Onifade

Gyamfi

Bekun

et al. 2022

The study seeks to examine the significance of the tourism-induced growth hypothesis from the perspective of air transportation among seven emerging (E7) countries, including China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Indonesia, and Turkey. The combined impact of energy consumption and globalization was also factored into the analysis in order to draw cogent implications for environmental quality as energy demand in E7 economies continues to rise amidst growing urbanization in recent times. The study leverages on second-generational panel data estimators, namely cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lag, augmented Mean Group, and Dumitrescu-Hurlin Causality techniques. Having established a long-run equilibrium relationship among the outlined variables, the result validates the pertinent role of air transport in enhancing economic growth as a percent rise in airline passengers' arrivals significantly enhances growth in the E7 economies by 0.77%. In addition, the feedback causality between the variables also strengthens the pivotal roles of air transport in economic growth, thereby giving credence to the tourism-led growth hypothesis (TLGH) in the E7. However, there are detrimental environmental implications for the E7 when considering the causal nexus between economic growth and the dynamics of carbon-inducing energy consumption among the countries. Hence, investments in clean energy and transport infrastructures are recommended to ensure a sustainable environment where the tourism industry can flourish.

“…The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which then soon turned into a global crisis, has significantly affected the tourism industry (Čorak et al, 2020;Farzanegan et al, 2020;Gössling et al, 2020;Yang et al, 2020;Harchandani & Shome, 2021). Closed national borders, prohibited movement of people, closing down of tourism-related businesses, and the forced grounding of all passenger aircraft made international travel impossible (World Tourism Organization [UNWTO], 2020a; International Labour Organization, 2020a; Ebrahim et al, 2020;Economic Times, 2020;Gössling et al, 2020;Memish et al, 2020;Sönmez et al, 2020;Harchandani and Shome, 2021). The World Health Organization (World Health Organization [WHO], 2020a), in its first recommendations with regard to international traffic, only indirectly addressed accommodation providers; it was more concrete no earlier than at the end of August 2020 (WHO, 2020c).…”

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“…Furthermore, employees were also one of the key affected stakeholders. Employment for unskilled workers in the worst-affected countries could decrease at double-digit rates even in the most moderate scenario; salaries will be fundamentally affected due to how businesses respond to health crises (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 2020;Harchandani and Shome, 2021). However, these employee-based assessments may be of questionable utility for the current pandemic due to the lack of relevant previous research as well as available data from various geographic and economic areas (Ma et al 2020;Aguiar-Quintana et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

Work in Hotels Under Conditions Related to the Covid-19 Disease

Šuligoj

2022

Hotel employees are at increased risk of infection with SARS-Cov-2. Therefore, governments have taken many systematic measures to protect employees and employers (hoteliers). Since previous studies have almost entirely overlooked hotel employees' perspectives on the pandemic, this study determines how heterogeneously Slovenian hotel employees perceived the disease and their own work during and after the health crisis. The Two-Step and K-Means clustering methods were used to identify clusters of respondents. The One-way ANOVA with post hoc Tukey's HSD test was employed to verify the significant differences among groups/items. The sample included 301 completed questionnaires. A three-cluster solution with statistically significant differences was identified. Cluster 3, the largest, is particularly interesting, as its members are the most pessimistic of all. In contrast, Cluster 1, which is much smaller, included the most optimistic members (plain optimists). Cluster 2 is also interesting, as its members tend to be more extroverted – expressing the highest psychological burden and pessimistic views about the future provision of hotel services. Managers should provide clear instructions, education/training, tighten control, and do everything possible to prevent oversensitivity and excessively defensive responses that could hinder operational work.