A message from Prof. Alan A. Lew, Editor in Chief of the journal Tourism Geographies.
Academic journals are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in a variety of ways. Some have gone into a temporary pause mode, along with much of the world. Others (esp. medical journals it seems) are clamoring for anything related to the pandemic. And other have had CFPs for special issues related to the virus and pandemic. So I am proposing to do all three of these things with this very special call for interest in a special issue that is also a pause from business as usual.
The focus of the special issue is on how the events of 2020 will transform our planet in potentially positive ways, with travel and tourism being among the most significant areas to be impacts.
What makes this very special is that I want to publish it in the next available issue of Tourism Geographies. So I am putting other things on hold (pause) to do this.
Also, the articles will all be commentaries and will not go out for normal review. Instead, they will be reviewed by the guest editors only to speed up the process as quickly as possible.
See link for full details: https://www.tgjournal.com/transformation.html?fbclid=IwAR0GBk3Qj3H6PcsGS5uZXOwtAof-niSVOtZH7YwYgJa8r8uo69FtFR_4eD8
Our plant will be more cleaner as people will start cleaning their environment. People will start supporting the nature. Men will think to minimize the use of resources and will not deplete the Earth resources brutally. Tourism has been impacted but it will revive. People will look for airlines that gives refund for such disasters and full reimbursement of tickets etc. How empathetic the countries are for tourists will be checked in future?
Only disease survivor will attend, so any event after COVID-19 will be great, In addition, there is an important Quotes about tourism .. that confirms that tourism gets sick but does not die
The changes in the way of socializing and interacting with the world will be mediated by a strong health and safety policy. fields such as informatics and epidemiological studies will enter to verify the safety of tourist destinations
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sotiris_Folinas?ev=hdr_xprf&_sg=r80ZuZT36owxHPgCPlHci2mSxm7XNT2HOGLq4sPHWheoLelpvW6p_bvDjnPPFelNLWpsb-OO5FYlgLRICIvoReqJ
Special Tourism Zones (STZs).
This article also introduces the STZs as new tourism strategy aimed to transform tourism.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349075946_Further_stages_of_the_Investment_Redistributive_Investment_Model_Towards_mainstreaming_Community-based_tourism?_sg=0ak343Ge3fHOLwwQgQkbysuwL66aPW5XA4s08JogSpwq-YhFcR7_ehPWFQhmwhfqrSN2WKkusLPKkseyoxFzG_QJ4aJaHUc0YeZMLBhY.cHjdkLDCRZ32J0HV7rW2PtZTzI2F6xL17iS_LXZhxL1tgMbGAoDdUhs4sVXY0USxul9S4mtyV9o28rI6Z7UPpA
Events of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021 has really impacted negatively the tourism sector. I remember before the pandemic countries used to compete on the number of tourists they were attracting, but now, they are not receiving and restricting those tourists.
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