The Nature and Future of Tourism: A Post-Covid-19 Context

ISBN-13: 9781774637296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 262 str.

Maximiliano E. Korstanje; Babu George

Opis

Focuses on the tourism industry in conjunction with the impact of COVID-19. It offers a new conceptualization and theorization of tourism and offers parallels with other crises (such as 9-11). Topics include robotics in the hospitality industry, space tourism, how communication technologies can benefit third world tourism, etc.

Spis treści

1. A New Conceptualization of Leisure 2. Towards a Theory of Tourism 3. Tourism as a Rite of Passage 4. The Relevance of Ethnography to Study Tourism Fields 5. Tourism, Conflict, and Conflictivity: Is Tourism Part of the Problem or the Solution? 6. Tourism After 9/11: The Day Everything Suddenly Changed 7. Is Hospitality Dying? In Robots We Must Not Trust 8. The Impact of COVID–19 in the Tourism Industry: End or Rebirth? 9. Robots and Tourism: Hospitality and the Analysis of Westworld, HBO Saga 10. Gazing the Far Skies Beyond the Earth: Space Tourism Prospects 11. A Community-Centered Vision for Inclusive Tourism 12. Could Information and Communication Technologies Be the Hope for Third World Tourism? 13. The Lingering Quest for Authenticity in Tourism: Is Authenticity Really Dead? 14. Complexity, Uncertainness, and Tourism: Tourist Consciousness