ABSTRACT
The desire and the need to regain their markets were undoubtedly the decision-making factors in such situations. While in normal circumstances, a period of a few years might produce some change in the patterns of tourism and its associated development, instead, the impacts resulting therefrom the period from 2017 to the present saw massive and dramatic changes in tourism and other phenomena because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent no or reduced tourism activities. Some islands and island nations were initially successful in utilising their islandness to self-impose a blockade on visitors as the pandemic and its effects began to be realised, and in this regard, remoteness of these islands helped. Sustainability and resiliency of tourism sectors on islands must be built on adaptable frameworks of policy and planning to ensure the political will for the tourism development continues.
