Tourism Is Too Dangerous! Perceived Risk and the Subjective Safety of Tourism Activity in the Era of Covid-19

Matiza, Tafadzwa; Slabbert, Elmarie

doi:10.30892/gtg.362spl04-686

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“…Evidently, for venue suppliers, particularly hotels, an opportunity emerged to tap into a new market during COVID-19. Recent literature on the changes in tourism consumption have demonstrated that COVID-19 greatly increased the perceived fear of travelling Wang et al, 2020;Agyeiwaah et al, 2021;Matiza and Slabbert, 2021). The manner in which the virus spreads led to more cautious decision making in travel.…”

Section: Venue-specific Responsesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptive Strategies Employed by the Mice Sector in Response to Covid-19

Lekgau¹,

Economics²,

Tichaawa³

2021

GTG

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COVID-19 has brought to the fore drastic and transformative changes to MICE tourism. The current study therefore sought to examine the adaptive responses employed by the MICE sector of South Africa to survive and maintain business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adopting a qualitative research design, 19 representatives of various subsectors of the MICE industry (including organisers, suppliers, and associations) were interviewed. The data reveals that the immediate strategies implemented by many MICE organisations involved the reevaluation of their operational costs. Moreover, the study found that the sector has readjusted its business models to include virtual events in order to ensure recovery and resilience in light of the pandemic. The study argues the importance of understanding adaptive strategies as broadening theory on tourism and crises (specifically to the MICE sector) as well as understanding the process of sector resilience post-COVID-19.

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Section: Venue-specific Responsesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptive Strategies Employed by the Mice Sector in Response to Covid-19

Lekgau¹,

Economics²,

Tichaawa³

2021

GTG

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“…They also find that these changes had been coupled with larger tourism industry integration, sustainability practices, better housekeeping services, new medical tourism, and virtual tourism among others. On the other hand, Matiza and Stabbet [48] concluded that, in spite of the large number of contemporary studies analyzing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tourism in general, academic work on the effect of the pandemic on the subjective safety associated with tourism activity is still minimal. This could be especially detrimental for islands tourism, because the remoteness and isolation of many islands could create a false sense of their lack of safety.…”

Section: Postpandemic Island Tourism Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Island Tourism-Based Sustainable Development at a Crossroads: Facing the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Figueroa

Rotarou

2021

Sustainability

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Tourism is often seen as the ‘golden ticket’ for the development of many islands. The current COVID-19 pandemic, however, has ground global tourism to a halt. In particular, islands that depend heavily on tourist inflows—including mass-tourism islands, and small island developing states (SIDS)—have seen their revenues diminish significantly, and poverty rates increasing. Some alternative-tourism islands have fared better, as they have focused on providing personalized, nature-based experiences to mostly domestic tourists. This article focuses on the experiences of mass-tourism islands, SIDS, and alternative-tourism islands during the COVID-19 pandemic, and offers possible post-pandemic scenarios, as well as recommendations for sustainable island tourism development. Although the pandemic has largely had a negative impact on the tourism sector, this is a unique opportunity for many islands to review the paradigm of tourism development. In this newly emerging world, and under a still very uncertain future scenario, the quadriptych of sustainability is more important than ever. Responsible governance and management of islands’ natural resources and their tourism activities, addressing climate change impacts, the diversification of islands’ economies, and the promotion of innovative and personalized tourist experiences are all necessary steps towards increasing islands’ resilience in case of future economic downturn or health- and environment-related crises.

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“…Nair and Sinha (2020: 307) pinpoint that travel behaviours and specific changes in decision-making are "not new concepts in the tourism industry and have been especially important over the past two decades, as the industry has witnessed a range of catastrophes from natural disasters to terrorist attacks". Yet the COVID-19 is distinctive for the truly global nature of the crisis as the pandemic effectively has halted the operations of the tourism sector in an unparalleled fashion as well as reshaping patterns of consumer travel demand and of supply chains (Buckley, 2020;Hall et al, 2020;Nair and Sinha, 2020;Cooper and Buckley, 2021;Nhamo et al, 2020;Gössling et al, 2021;Matiza and Slabbert, 2021;Pham et al, 2021;Rogerson and Rogerson, 2021a;Sharma et al, 2021;Tellioglu, 2021).…”

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African Tourism in Uncertain Times: Covid-19 Research Progress

Rogerson¹,

Economics²,

Rogerson³

2021

GTG

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COVID-19 is a trigger event which is changing the complexion of African tourism and the directions of African tourism research. This article offers an overview and commentary on the state of African research produced during the uncertain times of 2020-2021 in specific response to the immediate impacts and changes which have been catalysed by the pandemic. The article is a progress report to capture and profile the body of focussed contributions on COVID-19 and tourism which have appeared for sub-Saharan Africa. Further, it is a contribution towards strengthening our understanding of tourism and change in the Global South. Overall, the discussion serves to highlight an emerging African scholarship which is engaged on a range of issues around three core themes of ramification, adaptation and transformation.

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Tourism Is Too Dangerous! Perceived Risk and the Subjective Safety of Tourism Activity in the Era of Covid-19

Cited by 27 publications

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Adaptive Strategies Employed by the Mice Sector in Response to Covid-19

Adaptive Strategies Employed by the Mice Sector in Response to Covid-19

Island Tourism-Based Sustainable Development at a Crossroads: Facing the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic

African Tourism in Uncertain Times: Covid-19 Research Progress

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