Tourism industry is facing an unprecedented challenge from Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The global pandemic has grounded airplanes, shut down hotels, and affected the tourism industry in many ways. However, travel and tourism have also enabled the virus to become a global issue, and reflection on the role of tourism in modern societies is needed.
This web page is dedicated to information about the impacts of the pandemic on tourism. We collect articles from academics looking into COVID-19 and tourism to provide information for the tourism field. IFITT wants to provide the tourism community reliable and innovative information from various sources, and especially from the scientific community. It is the responsibility of everyone who can to help those who are now taking the majority of the impact, and hopefully this resource provides those in the tourism field much needed knowledge and ideas on the impacts of the virus as well as the future of tourism.
If you are researching COVID-19 and tourism and want your articles to be visible here, please e-mail the editors of this web page or post a comment.
Dr. Juho Pesonen, University of Eastern Finland, [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Claudia Brözel, HNE Eberswalde, [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Buhalis, Bournemouth University, [email protected]
Site updated: 11.5.2020
Blog posts, news articles, videos, websites, and podcasts
Focused on tourism
News
Association of British Travel Agents advice for customers
U.S. Government advices U.S. citizens to avoid cruise ships
BBC: Virus ‘could cost millions of tourism jobs’
Financial help for airlines ‘should come with strict climate conditions’
Impacts
BBC Radio Interview with Dimitrios Buhalis on Coronavirus and impacts to hospitality industry
Bournemouth University Coronavirus and Impacts on Tourism Panel Discussion Panel discusses the impacts of Coronavirus crisis on tourism and explores ways to increase tourism industry resilience.
World Economic Forum on Impacts of coronavirus
Hotel industry impact of COVID-19 (STR)
Covid19Tourism Index (Temple University)
Moengage Coronavirus Business Impact Insights for Brands
Marketing and management
Promoting Tourism in the Time of Coronavirus Is a No-Win (Skift.com)
Digital travel marketing in the age of coronavirus (PhocusWire)
Coronavirus and Marketing: 6 Lessons from Hotel Brands in China (Dragon Trail Interactive)
The Faroe Islands Remote Tourism
Destinations
How DMOs Are Responding (CrowdRiff)
Insights from Visit Scotland into communication during the crises
Actions taken by governments (AIEST)
Hospitality
Guidelines on Infection Control & Prevention in Hotel Industry from Hong Kong
Customer sentiments in hospitality industry
Recovery and Reopening
UNWTO Healing Solutions Tourism Challenge
Corona-crisis: A Destination Management Opportunity (Destination Stewardship Center)
What will travel look like after coronavirus? (CNN)
Sustainable recovery (The Conversation)
Travel on an Awakening Planet (Earth Resonance)
UNWTO A Call for Action for Tourism’s COVID-19 Mitigation and Recovery
The University of the West Indies COVID-19 Task Force
A Framework for Post-COVID 19 Recovery for our Towns and Cities (Placemanagement.org)
Travel Industry Guidelines for Sectors Reopening in One Place (Skift.com)
BCG Travel Recovery Insights Portal (Boston Consulting Group)
The way back: What the world can learn from China’s travel restart after COVID-19 (McKinsey)
Survival
Save Berlins Club Culture in quarantine
Support from OTAs (VisitScotland)
Resource/aggregate pages
Resilientdestinations.com (News, stories and resources for a sustainable tourism response to the COVID-19 emergency)
Techtalk.travel helpful resources for hoteliers. (A centralised resources page that aggregates relevant hospitality/COVID-19 support content into one location.)
https://www.tourmageddon.com/ (Especially for tours)
Travel Massive, including COVID-19 resources
COVID-19 Tourism Response (thinkdigital.travel, an industry-led hub of resources and information on the impact and responses to this current global crisis)
Skift liveblog on Coronavirus and travel
ETOA insight, action and resources (European Tourism and COVID-19)
COVID19 and Sustainable Tourism (Anna Spenceley blog with 300+ links)
UNWTO Academy Digital Resources
Hospitality Industry Resources: COVID-19 (Cornell)
Guidelines
Adventure Travel News COVID-19 Guide
Coronavirus tourism industry crash and call for humanity, resilience, solidarity and leadership. (buhalis.blogspot.com)
Key strategies to survive for tourism and hospitality industry (buhalis.blogspot.com)
Tourism Ground Zero (buhalis.blogspot.com)
Coronavirus marketing battle plan (tourismmarketing.agency)
Videos, interviews, podcasts
COVID-19 Impact on the Global Hotel Industry for IFITT
Interview with professor Frederic Dimanche
eLearning for Tourism during the time of Coronavirus
How will tourist behaviours change in a post COVID-19 world? (Youtube)
General about the virus
MIT Radio Corona, interviews with experts about the virus
Follow Johns Hopkins University tracker on the spread of the virus
Financial Times Latest News on Coronavirus
UK Government Coronavirus action plan
OECD Materials on the effects of Coronavirus on global economy
COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports (Google)
COVID19 Infodemics Observatory
Datasets
Google COVID19 public data program
International perspective
Spain: SEGITTUR platform for sharing information
Appinio COVID-19 report in Germany
Scientific, peer-reviewed research articles and books focused on tourism and COVID-19
For the most recent information on articles and call for papers regarding COVID-19 visit Travel & Tourism Transformed (Conferences, Books, Journals, Surveys & Research Proposals related to Travel, Tourism & Hospitality and the COVID-19 Pandemic)
Gretzel, U., Fuchs, M., Baggio, R., Hoepken, W., Law, R., Neidhardt, J., … & Xiang, Z. (2020). e-Tourism beyond COVID-19: a call for transformative research. Information Technology & Tourism, 1.
Gössling, S. Scott, D. & Hall, C.M. (2020): Pandemics, tourism and global change: a rapid assessment of COVID-19, Journal of Sustainable Tourism. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2020.1758708
Hall, C.M., Scott, D. & Gössling, S. (2020): Pandemics, transformations and tourism: be careful what you wish for, Tourism Geographies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2020.1759131
Higgins-Desbiolles, F. (2020). Socialising tourism for social and ecological justice after COVID-19. Tourism Geographies, 1-14.
Wen, J., Aston, J., Liu, X., & Ying, T. (2020). Effects of misleading media coverage on public health crisis: a case of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in China. Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2020.1730621
Zheng, Y., Goh, E., & Wen, J. (2020). The effects of misleading media reports about COVID-19 on Chinese tourists’ mental health: a perspective article. Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2020.1747208
Yang, Y., Zhang, H., & Chen, X. (2020). Coronavirus pandemic and tourism: Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium modeling of infectious disease outbreak. Annals of Tourism Research, 102913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.102913
Ying, T., Wang, K., Liu, X., Wen, J., & Goh, E. (2020). Rethinking game consumption in tourism: a case of the 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak in China. Tourism Recreation Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2020.1743048