Lamers, Machiel and Student, Jillian (2021) Learning from covid-19? An Environmental mobilities and flows perspective on dynamic vulnerabilities in coastal tourism settings. Maritime Studies, Vol.20 (4). pp. 475-486. ISSN 2212-9790
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The global COVID-19 pandemic has been claimed to be the most dramatic shock the international tourism and travel sector has faced in the post WWII period, and the implications are heavily debated since. COVID-19 has severely reduced and in many places stopped tourism mobility. Societal and academic debate focuses on how the tourism industry can respond to and recover from this crisis and, ultimately, how travel and tourism will evolve as a socioeconomic activity in our society. In addition to more practical recovery or post-crisis questions and debates, COVID-19 has highlighted the inherent vulnerability of the tourism and travel sector and the communities dependent on transnational tourist flows. It has become clear that global transportation and travel flows have played, and continue to play, a central role in the spread of the virus, at a rate and scale that seems unprecedented in history. Tourism strongly contributed to, and is heavily affected by, the pandemic. This inspires us to explore the key role of dynamic transnational tourism flows in generating dependency and vulnerability. COVID-19 has also affected marine and coastal destinations. The predictable flows of airborne and cruise tourists dissolved completely, with great uncertainties about their foreseeable return. In general terms, since the start of the pandemic, we have observed difficult policy decisions in many coastal tourism destinations, balancing between lockdowns and border closings for the sake of public health, and attempts to partly or temporarily open up again for the sake of the economy and local livelihoods. Worldwide, marine and coastal destinations are also particularly dependent and thereby vulnerable to global environmental change and dynamic tourist flows.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Covid, Environmental Mobility, Vulnerability, Coastal Communities, Tourism, Fishing Communities, Policy, Health, Livelihoods, Environmental Change |
| Subjects: | Disasters and Climate Change |
| Depositing User: | Jeeva ICSF Rajan |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Dec 2021 12:09 |
| Last Modified: | 30 May 2022 06:33 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/7679 |
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