“It takes more time to get ‘back to play’ than to ‘get back to work.”
-- Catherine Mann, chief economist at Citigroup Inc (source)
-- Catherine Mann, chief economist at Citigroup Inc (source)
Non-Academic Tourism Articles,
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10 Important World Tourism Issues
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1. Responding to the global 2020 COVID-19 pandemic virus that has caused international stress in the tourism industry
2. Determining the best international approach to regaining the economic contributions of tourism to the world economy 3. Identifying and addressing transportation issues, especially those of airlines and cruise ships, related to the COVID-19 virus 4. Investigating concerns for long-term impacts on the tourism industry of overtourism, climate change and global warming 5. Concern for safety, security, and health remains an important issue to address within the global travel and tourism industry 5. Necessity for increased local, regional, national, and international leadership in tourism policy and strategic planning 6. Educating travelers/businesses toward better management in the application of new technologies, in the tourism industry 7. Maintaining a sustainable, engaged, skilled and experienced workforce in order to deliver quality tourism experiences 8. Effect on travel from natural and human-induced disasters, health issues, humanitarian crisis’s and political disruptions 10. Utilize tourism as a vehicle for bringing indigenous and rural populations out of their state of oppression and marginalization Posted here because of the significant role of COVID-19 in this list. Click here for original emailed document (.docx) with sources. |
Taking Back Our Communities from Tourism Post-COVID
(also in Spanish) (pdf) - Tourism Alert Action Forum
We offer a nine-point plan to reset tourism.
1) Tourism is defined by the local communities, because it occurs in the homeplaces of local communities, it impacts their lives and they provide many of the workers for tourism. It is they rather than the tourism industry and the tourists who must set agendas.
2) We declare ecology, society and economy as interconnected. Public health and well-being depends on a strong society with full support for the public good and an ecological environment that is
protected and valued for its inter-generational and multi-species support.
3) A policy of constant growth and expansion in tourism is not compatible with a fair and sustainable future. Growth approaches must be abandoned.
4) Globalisation processes have served the elite and powerful. We must revise our priorities to sustain local well-being rather than constantly grow vulnerable global supply chains.
5) Workers in both the formal and informal sectors of tourism have a right to fair pay, safe and secure work. It is the crime of the hospitality and tourism industries that they are characterised by wage theft, poor working conditions and precarious work.
6) Tourists have no right to tour. COVID-19 reminded us the doors can be shut.
7) Multinational corporations and powerful state corporations only have the right to do business in the jurisdictions where they pay adequate taxes and abide by environmental, social, employment and economic regulations. The days of the free-wheeling approach are over.
8) Tourism brings violence and supports state violence. We must activate solidarity with places under occupation, including Palestine, Kashmir, West Papua, Hawai’i, Guam, Western Sahara and others.
9) Tourism is not an end in itself. Tourism must serve societies and communities and fit in the larger sustainable development capacities of all places where it occurs.
1) Tourism is defined by the local communities, because it occurs in the homeplaces of local communities, it impacts their lives and they provide many of the workers for tourism. It is they rather than the tourism industry and the tourists who must set agendas.
2) We declare ecology, society and economy as interconnected. Public health and well-being depends on a strong society with full support for the public good and an ecological environment that is
protected and valued for its inter-generational and multi-species support.
3) A policy of constant growth and expansion in tourism is not compatible with a fair and sustainable future. Growth approaches must be abandoned.
4) Globalisation processes have served the elite and powerful. We must revise our priorities to sustain local well-being rather than constantly grow vulnerable global supply chains.
5) Workers in both the formal and informal sectors of tourism have a right to fair pay, safe and secure work. It is the crime of the hospitality and tourism industries that they are characterised by wage theft, poor working conditions and precarious work.
6) Tourists have no right to tour. COVID-19 reminded us the doors can be shut.
7) Multinational corporations and powerful state corporations only have the right to do business in the jurisdictions where they pay adequate taxes and abide by environmental, social, employment and economic regulations. The days of the free-wheeling approach are over.
8) Tourism brings violence and supports state violence. We must activate solidarity with places under occupation, including Palestine, Kashmir, West Papua, Hawai’i, Guam, Western Sahara and others.
9) Tourism is not an end in itself. Tourism must serve societies and communities and fit in the larger sustainable development capacities of all places where it occurs.
Academic Journal Articles are on the TEACHING page
COVID-19, but Not Tourism
- Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What Next? - by Jeremy Lent, April 2, 2020 - Fortress Earth or Societal Transformation?
- Facebook Discussion: The corona-virus is for sure a global wake up call. The question is what is coming after the corona-crisis. Do we just return to "normal" (the most disastrous outcome), or is this the golden moment for a big systemic shift? - The Ecology of Systems Thinking Public Group - from the same group, see also:
- Facebook Discussion: What would be the world after this epidemic Noval corona virus?? - The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Private Group (requires membership)
- From Coronavirus to Consciousness - by Matt Kahn - a New Age interpretation of the COVID-19 pandemic and how it is a catalyst for expanding human and global consciousness
Note: Also see the BLM & New Earth page.
Free eBooks from CABI
Tourism and Resilience (ed. Richard Butler) Transforming Tourism (by Jeremy Smith) see also the Recovery-Short Term page for other free ebooks
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Not Tourism, nor COVID-19 Specific
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Source for the graphic above: Facebook Ecology of Systems public group