I've recently heard in several webinars (mainly hosted by local tourism managers and entrepreneurs) that tourism industry have always demonstrated that is very resilient and that it will recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, but I would like to know the opinion of the academia about it.
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Just for example, the Net Profit Ratio of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) was 15.69% for the Quarter ending June 30,2019 and it was
(18.32%) for the Quarter ending June 30,2020. This is just a small example.
This time the scenario is different. Tourism industry has to build the confidence among the customers that it is “safe distancing” that is required rather than “social distancing”. The Industry has to ensure that “personal-touch oriented service” is required to be modified to “no-contact service”. For this, tourism industry will have to redefine and re-imagine itself in more ways than ever.
Totally agree Sanjeev Bansal ! And it also depends on the resilience approach. E.g. On the one hand, managers and entrepreneurs are more focused on strategies to "restart tourism", which means that they still giving more importance to the economic impacts. On the other hand, academia wants to apply the socio-economic systems framework, therefore, I think that there is also a different undertsnding of resilience among stakeholders.
The tourism industry is one of the sectors most severely affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, affecting the economy, livelihoods and public services of all continents. Although priority must be given to helping those who rely on tourism to make a living, the reconstruction of the tourism industry should take this opportunity to focus on the impact of tourism on destinations and through innovation, digitalization, sustainability and partnerships build more resilient communities and businesses to transform the tourism industry.
Imanaly Zh. Akbar I agree that we (academy) are also responsible to play an important role to generate different ways to "boost" resilience in tourism destinations, but we also have to take into account that these contexts are having a lot of economic difficulties because they depend on tourism to generate revenues, and this happens because 1.- most detinations do not have any other source of incomes because (at least in Latin America) is very common for local people to move from agriculture or any other avtivity to tourism; 2.- tourism is seasonal so the income depends on high and low seasons. That is why, in my opinion tourism is not "the key for resilience" in this contexts, but surely we have to come up with different ideas and also to collaborate with other actors in order to change this situation.
I totally with you, Erick David García-González. That is the case. Holding the sustainable balance is very difficult in real life.
For sure Imanaly Zh. Akbar ! But it also means that we have a lot to do so we can try to solve this kind of issues.
If you think of tourism as every kind of travelling (including business trips a.s.o.), there is no other way than to recover. The strongest ("most professional") will survive and rebuild momentum. But: tourism as a pandemic shield should and probably will then be implemented. A virus safe touristic infrastructure (vista) has to be the ground. Otherwise the next pandemic wave will ask the "trust question" much louder than today.
Michael Domsalla I know, and that is why we have to be more conscious about the environment. As there is a feedback in the socio-ecological system in all different schales, tourism will be affected as well. Futhermore, covid-19 is only ONE of the many shocks tourism can suffer, and it has shown us how vulnerable a destination is when it depends on tourism only.
First of all, Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to everyone. Well, I am not totally agree about it. Resilient or not, the definition of this word is clear:
Def. Resilience: It exists in people who develop psychological and behavioral capabilities that allow them to remain calm during crises/chaos and to move on from the incident without long-term negative consequences.
Thinking in the pandemic consequences... I think Tourism will not be resilience. Too soon to say the opposite and too many clues to understand that nothing will be the same.... again. Erick David García-González
Merry Xmas to you too Manuel Rosell ! Hope next year bring many great things for you and your beloved ones.
You have quoted the definition of resilience for psychology and I think it is very important to retake it in the socio-ecological systems approach. That is why I mentioned that we have to come up with a clear definition of resilience in tourism in which stakeholders could understand it in the same way.
Surely, I think that tourism itself is not resilient, not even more if it is not managed properly... but we can try to boost resilience in tourism destinations, in all social, environmental and economic dynamics.
Yes, humans have been known to be explorers so even if tourism is low now we expect it to bounce back very soon.
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