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Long Term Sustainability

Resources for Longer Term Transformation and Sustainability from the COVID-19 Pandemic, with a focus on Travel, Tourism & Hospitality


“It takes more time to get ‘back to play’ than to ‘get back to work.”
-- Catherine Mann, chief economist at Citigroup Inc (source)

​Non-Academic Tourism Articles,
​Reports, & Blogs

10 Important World Tourism Issues
for 2021
posted October 25, 2020

  • Globetrender "Trend Reports" - a travel forecasting website offering free reports on COVID-19's impact on different aspects of travel and tourism; also a good source of current travel and tourism news trends 
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  • Free eBook: Turismo pos-COVID-19. Reflexiones, retos y oportunidades (Tourism after covid-19. Reflections, challenges and opportunities)
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  • Driving Resiliency and Sustainability in Hospitality: Five Priorities for 2021
    — 23 experts shared their view - HospitalityNet.org 

  • "Development in a world of disorder : tourism, COVID-19 and the adaptivity of South Pacific people" - full report - article about the report - Massey University (Oct 21, 2020)

  • Destination Stewardship Center (National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations) - See their Autumn Destinations Report for several articles on COVID-19 related topics

  • Future of Tourism - a new industry and destination organization addressing the new normal in tourism

  • A Sustainable and Equitable Blue Recovery to the COVID-19 Crisis - World Resource Institute - full report and executive summary 

  • Decarbonising conference travel after COVID-19, Milan Klöwer, Debbie Hopkins, Myles Allen & James Higham - Supplementary Information

  • The end of global travel as we know it: an opportunity for sustainable tourism,  Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, The Conversation, March 17, 2020​​

  • Transformative Power of Tourism (pdf)- UNWTO report (2016) - might have some suggestions on what a post-COVID-19 tourism could look like
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  • HospitalityNet: COVID-19: A stress test for sustainable development in hospitality? - Opinions on COVID-19 and Sustainability from 21 hospitality industry leaders

  • Tourism Blogs from The Centre for Space, Place and Society, Wageningen University, Netherlands 

  • UNWTO - Healing Solutions for Tourism Challenge - a competition for disruptive entrepreneurs and ideas to address COVID-19 impacts on tourism people, businesses, and places

  • The coronavirus will change how we travel. That will probably be good for us - Andrew Evans, NBC News, April 20, 2020

  • Reset: Visions of Travel & Tourism ​​after the ​Global COVID-19 Transformation of 2020 - a special issue of Tourism Geographies vol.22, No.3

Also see the BLM & New Earth page. There are also a lot of articles like these available through any online search.
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.  

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. 

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Free eBooks from CABI
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Tourism and Resilience 
(ed. Richard Butler)​
Transforming Tourism
​(by Jeremy Smith)


see also the Recovery-Short Term page for other free ebooks

Not Tourism, nor COVID-19 Specific

  • ​Planet Happiness - focussing on gross national happiness instead of GNP​
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  • SUNx - Sustainable Universal Network - Climate Friendly Travel portal with news, webinars, and reports

Also see the "Other" section for other data and reference sources
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Source for the graphic above: Facebook Ecology of Systems public group