Tourism Through Troubled Times explores the unparalleled crisis within the current global tourism industry, which includes not only a wide range of risks that threaten economic activity but also a wider and deeper epistemological crisis.

Divided into four sections covering risk perception, tourism in crisis, new forms of tourism and the future of tourism in a fractured world, this edited collection examines issues including the impacts of the climate crisis on tourism, post-disaster marketing and management, use of robotics tourism, dark tourism, virtual tourism, over-tourism and tourism-phobia.

The editors present perspectives from a range of scholarly voices throughout a diverse array of chapters, offering a multidisciplinary view on tourism's recovery and possible future. Tourism Through Troubled Times is an illuminating read for all scholars of Tourism Studies, Hospitality Management, and the Sociology of Tourism, as well as practitioners and managers within the hospitality sector, and gives clear insights into the industry's next steps forward.

About the Author

Maximiliano E. Korstanje is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Palermo, Argentina.

Hugues Seraphin is a Senior Lecturer in Event and Tourism Management Studies at the University of Winchester's Business School, UK.

Shem Wambugu Maingi is a Lecturer within the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Kenyatta University, Kenya.

Reviews

"Once again I want to congratulate Dr. Maximilliano Korstanje, Hugues Seraphin and Shem Maingi and the team of scholars for having given to the world and a valuable academic work to help the tourism industry face its twenty-first century emerging issues. As is typical of many of the other books written or edited by Korstanje, Seraphin & Maingi. This book offers wisdom and guidance not only for tourism scientists but also those who work in the applied field of tourism. This newest book touches on a number of value subjects, including tourism and the digital world, some of the world's most challenging tourism destinations such as South Africa and Haiti, the impact of pandemics and especially Covid-19 on tourism. This book will be not only a window to the world of tourism but a handbook of how to handle new crises as they emerge."

-- - Professor Peter Tarlow, Ph D, Texas A&M University, US

"This book advances a bold perspective on tourism: while it is generally true that COVID-19 created troubles for tourism growth, what is even more true is that it merely exacerbated the troubles that were already brewing in the background; also, globally, COVID-19 activated the process of reinventing tourism in fundamentally different ways. This is an exciting opportunity for newer forms of tourism and management styles. The contributions included in this volume explore these dimensions. An excellent compendium of a very diverse set of viewpoints."

-- - Babu George, PhD, Professor of International Business, Christian Brothers University, USA

"In this new book we are given the opportunity to scrutinise perceptions and representations of crisis faced by tourism as an industry and a system of services in the 21st century. Building on their previously published work, the editors of the compendium bring together an exciting array of case studies and fresh analytical propositions, helping us to reflect on what it means to live and travel in troubled times."

-- - Professor Rodanthi Tzanelli, PhD, Director, Mobilities Research Area, Bauman Institute, University of Leeds, UK



Book Information
ISBN 9781803823126
Author Maximiliano E. Korstanje
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 566g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm