Journal of Tourism Futures: Volume 7 Issue 3 , Open Access

Global tourism in crisis: conceptual frameworks for research and practice

Joseph M. Cheer, Dominic Lapointe, Mary Mostafanezhad, Tazim Jamal

The aims of this Editorial are twofold: (i) synthesise emergent themes from the special issue (ii) tender four theoretical frameworks toward examination of crises in tourism.

The collapse of tourism and its impact on wildlife tourism destinations

David Newsome

To evaluate some of the current discussion about the possible impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on wildlife tourism destinations. There could be either positive and/or negative…

Robots in service experiences: negotiating food tourism in pandemic futures

Francesc Fusté-Forné, Stanislav Ivanov

This research discusses the role of service robots in gastronomic and dining experiences in a post–coronavirus disease (COVID) world.

Conflicting logics for crisis management in tourism

Christina Öberg

In tourism research, crisis management mostly refers to operational, on-location, chaotic measures taken as a crisis strikes a tourism destination. Related to COVID-19, this paper…

COVID-19 early stage social acceptance of entry restrictions for international tourists to Japan

Thomas Jones, Minh-Hoang Nguyen

Different countries have responded to the pandemic with distinct domestic and international travel restrictions. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stringency of the…

Reconnecting the space of tourism and citizenship: the case of tourists’ hubris

Lucia Tomassini, Leanne Schreurs, Elena Cavagnaro

The rapid growth of tourism prior to the COVID-19 pandemic prompts the need for critical reflection of tourism’s “local-global” responsibility in the wake of that pandemic…

Twitter content analysis of the Australian bushfires disaster 2019-2020: futures implications

Gregory Willson, Violetta Wilk, Ruth Sibson, Ashlee Morgan

This paper aims to explore the themes and nature of sentiment of Twitter content that discussed the Australian bushfire disaster 2019–2020 and its associated wildlife devastation…

Cuba’s response to COVID-19: lessons for the future

Lana L. Wylie

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relevance of Cuba’s medical system, its health tourism and related diplomacy in the context of the recent COVID-19 pandemic for the…

The futures of entertainment dependent cities in a post-COVID world

Louis-Etienne Dubois, Frederic Dimanche

The purpose of this study is to examine post-crisis (COVID) futures for major city destinations that are dependent on live entertainment and tourism. Destinations that live from…

“Post-viral tourism’s antagonistic tourist imaginaries”

Rodanthi Tzanelli

This paper aims to examine the antagonistic coexistence of different tourism imaginaries in global post-viral social landscapes. Such antagonisms may be resolved at the expense of…

Overcoming negative disaster images: how Fukushima’s sake breweries challenged negative stereotypes and rebuilt its regional brand

David N. Nguyen, Moe Kumakura, Shogo Kudo, Miguel Esteban, Motoharu Onuki

This study adopts the multi-step model developed by Avraham and Ketter (2008), for altering place images, based on past academic literature on destination marketing. The purpose…

Book review – Wildlife Tourism Futures. Encounters with Wild, Captive and Artificial Animals

Sabine Michaela Lehmann

Book review – Tourismus NEXT (German)

Sabrina Seeler

Book review – Sustainable and Collaborative Tourism in a Digital World

Hugues Seraphin