Livable, Healthy and Lively Cities and Tourism Destinations: Facing Pandemics and Other Crisis Situations

Dear Colleagues,

Public health is a basic assumption for increasing the prosperity of the economic system. Nowadays, 80% of the world population is living in big cities, and this figure is expected to grow in the near future. Nevertheless, the current coronavirus pandemic has attacked life’s main bases of city “mobility” and “social proximity and interactions”. These two factors are also essential for tourism development, a major source of wealth for many countries worldwide. Consequently, both cities’ life and tourism have been seriously damaged by the COVID19 pandemic. Thus, it is urgent to research and identify critical factors, strategies, and actions and to seek possible pathways for a safe reactivation of life and tourism in cities.

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the links between life and tourism in cities and human health to face crisis situations from a multidisciplinary approach. New research papers, reviews, business cases, and conference papers are welcome. Theoretical papers dealing with new approaches and disruptive forms of managing crisis situations in cities are also of interest. Other accepted manuscript types include methodological papers, position papers, brief reports, critical commentaries.

Dr. María-del-Mar Alonso-Almeida
Dr. Carlo Giglio
Dr. Yi Liu
Guest Editors

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