ABSTRACT

This book focuses on the tourism industry in conjunction with the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective that it is both negatively impacting the industry while also offering an opportunity to rise from the ashes. The volume offers a new conceptualization and theorization of tourism, suggests new research methods, offers parallels with other crises (such as 9/11) to better understand the current one, and suggests futurist and innovative strategies. This book offers a wide range of topics on how a pandemic can impact customer satisfaction and the tourism industry.

chapter Chapter 1|24 pages

A New Conceptualization of Leisure

chapter Chapter 2|19 pages

Towards a Theory of Tourism

chapter Chapter 3|17 pages

Tourism as a Rite of Passage

chapter Chapter 4|17 pages

The Relevance of Ethnography to Study Tourism Fields

chapter Chapter 7|15 pages

Is Hospitality Dying? In Robots We Must Not Trust

chapter Chapter 11|20 pages

A Community-Centered Vision for Inclusive Tourism

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion