COVID-19 Induced Transformations of Tourism Host-Communities
Special Issue editor : Dominic LAPOINTE (University of Québec in Montréal)
This Special Issue of the open-access journal Societies (ISSN 2075-4698) is concerned with transformation induced by the COVID-19 pandemic to tourism host-communities, especially for peripheral host-communities
Following the declaration of pandemic state of the SRAS-CoV-2 by the WHO in March 2020, The whole international tourism system and visitor flux was brought to a halt. As a result, En conséquence, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) estimates a reduction in international arrivals of 1 billion, a loss of more than USD 1 trillion in revenue from international tourism and the potential loss of 120 million jobs (UNWTO, 2021).
This situation has had different consequences for tourism, ranging from the considerable loss of jobs, which were mostly already precarious, less well paid and predominantly occupied by women (Gossling et al., 2020; Baum et al. 2020), to the transformation of the perception of destinations where emblematic places of tourism, mainly urban (Venice, Barcelona,New York, etc.), are being redefined by the media as abandoned spaces, or even at-risk (Houiller -Guibert, 2020), to the increase in tourist frequentation of peripheral destinations (Adey et al. , 2020). These have not only amplified the inequalities already present in the tourism sector (Baum et al. 2020; Demeyère, 2020), but they also raise issues for the future of tourism.
This special issue is interested not only in the consequences in the tourism context, implied by the SARS-CoV-2 crisis, but also in the strategies undertaken in this context, by the host communities, and more particularly the peripheral host communities and those dependent on tourism.
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