Changing Practices of Tourism Stakeholders in Covid-19 Affected Destinations

Erdinç Çakmak is Senior Fellow at the Academy of Tourism, Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. His research interests are informal economies, tourism sociology, power relations in tourism and conflict-ridden destinations.Rami K. Isaac is Senior Fellow at the Academy for Tourism, Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management at Bethlehem University, Palestine. He has been working for 20 years in the field.Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor at Strathclyde University and has been active for more than 40 years in the field. He is co-editor of Tourism as a Pathway to Hope and Happiness (with Tej Vir Singh and David Fennell, Channel View Publications, 2023).

The global Covid-19 pandemic marks a watershed moment in recent history. Employing sociological and anthropological lenses, this timely volume helps us make sense of the pandemic’s impacts on tourism. In exploring coping strategies and robust transformations in these unique times at various sites and scales, it addresses vital questions on what the future might hold for tourism and its many stakeholders.

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Erdinç Çakmak, Rami K. Isaac and Richard Butler: Introduction: Changing Practices of Tourism Stakeholders in Covid-19 Affected DestinationsPart 1: Changes in the Subfields of the Tourism IndustryChapter 2. Marion Joppe: The Impacts of Covid-19 on the Airline IndustryChapter 3. Zahed Ghaderi, Zahra Behboodi, Faraz Sadeghvaziri and Ian Patterson: The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Tour Operators' Business in Iran: The Role of Organisational Learning and ResiliencyChapter 4. Siamak Seyfi and C. Michael Hall: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Tourism Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs): Insights from a Developing Country PerspectivePart 2: Transition of Attitudes in Spiritual TourismChapter 5. Ricardo Nicolas Progano: The Impact of the Covid-19 on Japanese Temple Stays: The 2021 SituationChapter 6. Daniel H. Olsen and Kiran A. Shinde: Practising Faith from Afar: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Pilgrim BehaviourChapter 7. Nitasha Sharma: When Faith and Fear Intersect: Pilgrimage During the Covid-19 PandemicPart 3: Perceptions and Habitus Changes of Tourism Stakeholders Chapter 8. Maree Gerke, Can-Seng Ooi and Heidi Dahles: Bourdieu on Tasmania: How Theory of Practice Makes Sense of the Emergence of Regenerative Tourism in Times of Covid-19Chapter 9. G.K. Jayathilaka and W.H.M.S. Samarathunga: Covid-19, Tourism Structural Changes and the Habitus Adaptations at Tourist Destinations: Perspectives of Tourism AgentsChapter 10. Meghann L. Muldoon, Alexandra Witte and Yu-Hua (Melody) Xu: Gendered (Im)mobilities in China: The Impacts of Covid-19 on Women in TourismPart 4: Emerging Perspectives on Post-Covid-19 TourismChapter 11. Maximiliano E. Korstanje: Questionable Hospitality: New Relations and Tensions Between Hosts and Guests After Covid-19Chapter 12. Philipp Wassler: Covid-19 and the Host Community: Towards an Uncertain Future?Chapter 13. Phoebe Everingham: Rethinking Tourism for the Long-Term: Covid-19 and the Paradoxes of Tourism Recovery in AustraliaChapter 14. Rami K. Isaac, Erdinç Çakmak and Richard Butler: Conclusion: Reflections and RevancheIndex