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Resilience and Recovery of Tourism

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 13491

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Mercedes Jiménez-García

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1. Department of General Economy, University of Cadiz, 11001 Cadiz, Spain
2. INDESS, University of Cadiz, 11406 Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Interests: tourism; agri-food; regional economy; territorial development
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Dr. José Ruiz Chico

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Department of General Economy, University of Cadiz, 11001 Cadiz, Spain
Interests: tourism; agrifood; regional economy; territorial development
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Tourism has always been considered a “special sector”, due to the characteristics of its supply and demand, the number of intangible elements that condition it, its unstoppable growth rates, and its significant share in the GDP of more and more countries.

Among these many characteristics that have made this sector different, we highlight its ability to recover from economic crises and depressions—for example, the recent global economic–financial crisis that began in 2008. The tourism recovered from this crisis was much faster than those of many other sectors, such as the industrial sector, demonstrating a capacity for reaction, and therefore, a positive contribution to the economy, contributing to a better performance of some territories in the face of the crisis. However, the worsening economic situation that many countries are currently experiencing does not have its origin in an oil crisis like the one in 1973 or a real estate crisis with economic and financial repercussions like that of 2008 but rather originates in health reasons.

This Special Issue aims to bring together different contributions of a multidisciplinary nature in which the emphasis is placed on the analysis of the special recovery capacity of the tourism sector, as well as trying to establish its response to this pandemic situation caused by COVID-19, to know if the behavior of the sector is analogous to what happened previously in other crises or to discern if the peculiarity of the health crisis provokes another differentiated response. In this case, the consumer’s behavior, their motivations, interests, etc. play a fundamental role in the development of the theme. Has there been a change in the tourism model motivated by the pandemic? The way of doing tourism has changed: limited beaches, enjoyment of culture with less capacity, need to reserve in restaurants due to the reduction of places, etc. Has the response to this crisis been more sustainable tourism? Are these observed changes temporary or structural in the tourism model?

All these contributions will complement and enrich the existing and not so abundant literature on the behavior of the sector after a crisis, at the same time providing a new line of comparison to other sectors and to behaviors in different crises, attitudes linked directly to a health crisis, and a possible change in the tourism model toward a possibly more sustainable option.

Prof. Dr. Mercedes Jiménez-García
Dr. José Ruiz Chico
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • tourism
  • resilience
  • crisis
  • tourist model
  • behavior
  • sustainability
  • pandemic

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Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here: Nexus between Toxic Leadership, Crisis Communication, and Resilience in COVID-19 Tourism
by Inhyouk Koo, Mahwish Anjam and Umer Zaman
Sustainability 2022, 14(17), 10825; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710825 - 30 Aug 2022
Cited by 9 | Viewed by 2436
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Sustainable travel has been redefined by the pandemic, as tourism destinations continue their struggle to stay resilient and vibrant. The COVID-19 crisis has fueled a lackluster performance and declined tourism growth worldwide while imposing serious threats to employees’ resilience across the globe. However, [...] Read more.
Sustainable travel has been redefined by the pandemic, as tourism destinations continue their struggle to stay resilient and vibrant. The COVID-19 crisis has fueled a lackluster performance and declined tourism growth worldwide while imposing serious threats to employees’ resilience across the globe. However, little is known about the interaction between the global tourism crisis and employees’ resilience in toxic leadership environments. To augment the existing understanding of the way employee resilience unfolds to respond to a crisis under toxic leadership, we draw on predictive research involving the UAE tourism industry. The UAE’s economy was forced to shrink largely due to its long-lasting dependency on inbound tourism. Hence, the study data were collected from 412 employees working in the hospitality and tourism industry in the UAE. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the impact of toxic leadership on crisis communication and employees’ resilience in the UAE’s tourism industry. The results showed that both employee resilience and crisis communication are negatively influenced by toxic leadership in COVID-19 tourism. Furthermore, crisis communication positively influences employee resilience, and significantly mediates its relationship with toxic leadership. Interestingly, the findings suggest that the toxic work culture constantly blurs the lines of communication, and, ultimately, the contagious behavior of toxic leaders overwhelms the resilience of employees while they respond to a crisis. The theoretical and practical implications of this research are not confined to toxic leadership; however, the strategies to nurture crisis communication and employee resilience for sustainable tourism are presented in an evolutionary perspective based on the conservation of resources theory. Full article
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Does Resilience Exist in China’s Tourism Economy? From the Perspectives of Resistance and Recoverability
by Pengyang Zhang, Yanmei Huang, Sipei Pan, Wanxu Chen, Hui Zhong, Ning Xu and Mingxing Zhong
Sustainability 2022, 14(17), 10641; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710641 - 26 Aug 2022
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Since the 21st century, crisis events have been frequent and normalized globally, and improving resilience has become the key for the tourism industry to cope with various uncertainty risks. To reveal the reality of the economic resilience of tourism in China, this study [...] Read more.
Since the 21st century, crisis events have been frequent and normalized globally, and improving resilience has become the key for the tourism industry to cope with various uncertainty risks. To reveal the reality of the economic resilience of tourism in China, this study employed the autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA) to construct a counterfactual function and integrated with the peaks-over-threshold (POT) model and geographical detector model to evaluate the spatiotemporal evolution and influencing factors of the economic resilience of tourism in China from the resistance and recoverability perspective, with a view to providing a reference for consolidating the resilience of the economic system of tourism in China and promoting the sustainable development of its tourism economy. The results showed that the economic resilience of tourism in China can be divided into four types—robust, self-reliant, laissez-faire, and fragile—based on a baseline resistance of −0.361 and recoverability of 0.342. Under different contraction–recovery cycles, the resistance and recoverability of China’s tourism economy have been progressively improved, transforming from the centralized model to the discrete model, from a fragile to a self-reliant type. The type of economic resilience of tourism in China exhibited a clustered contiguous development trend, with obvious zonal distribution characteristics and self-reliant tourism economic resilience areas dominating, but most areas have not yet formed stable economic resilience in their tourism sector. The ecological environment quality, government management ability, and technological innovation level were the main factors affecting the economic resilience of tourism in China. The interactions between different influencing factors were more significant in strengthening the tourism economic resilience. Full article
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Understanding Tourists’ Behavioral Intention and Destination Support in Post-pandemic Recovery: The Case of the Vietnamese Domestic Market
by Long Hai Duong, Quyet Dinh Phan, Tung Thanh Nguyen, Da Van Huynh, Thong Tri Truong and Khanh Quoc Duong
Sustainability 2022, 14(16), 9969; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14169969 - 12 Aug 2022
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Many countries have recently strived to accelerate the tourism recovery process by restarting their tourism industry despite the unprecedented risks of the COVID-19 crisis. Noticeably, several tourism destinations have experienced an impressive revitalization of both domestic and international tourist arrivals right after lifting [...] Read more.
Many countries have recently strived to accelerate the tourism recovery process by restarting their tourism industry despite the unprecedented risks of the COVID-19 crisis. Noticeably, several tourism destinations have experienced an impressive revitalization of both domestic and international tourist arrivals right after lifting all social distance restrictions. However, little is known about how a tourist destination may revive from the pandemic and to what extent tourists are willing to support a destination recovery. This study, therefore, aims to examine factors influencing the travel demand of domestic tourism and tourists’ willingness to support a destination recovery in new normal conditions. The Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling was employed to predict the structural model derived from a sample size of 695 valid questionnaires. The results indicate that there is a significant improvement in domestic tourists’ travel intention and their willingness to support the post-pandemic destination revival. It is interesting to learn that the destination health risk image is no longer a critical determinant to tourists’ travel plans, while other factors including attitude, monetary promotion, and social media significantly influence their travel intention and support of tourism destination re-opening in new normal conditions. Theoretically, this study generates important contributions to post-disaster crisis management and predicting tourists’ behavioral intentions that may influence tourism destination recovery prospects. Practically, the study also provides several important implications to rebuild the domestic tourism industry in a more resilient way against future pandemic challenges. Full article
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After the Epidemic, Is the Smart Traffic Management System a Key Factor in Creating a Green Leisure and Tourism Environment in the Move towards Sustainable Urban Development?
by Hsiao-Hsien Lin, I-Cheng Hsu, Tzu-Yun Lin, Le-Ming Tung and Ying Ling
Sustainability 2022, 14(7), 3762; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14073762 - 23 Mar 2022
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The purpose of this study is to explore, after the epidemic, the intelligent traffic management system, which is the key to creating a green leisure tourism environment in the move towards sustainable urban development. First, quantitative research, snowballing, and convenience sampling methods are [...] Read more.
The purpose of this study is to explore, after the epidemic, the intelligent traffic management system, which is the key to creating a green leisure tourism environment in the move towards sustainable urban development. First, quantitative research, snowballing, and convenience sampling methods are used to analyze 750 questionnaires with a basic statistical test, t-test, ANOVA test, and the Pearson product–moment correlation coefficient (PPMCC) method. Qualitative research and a semi-structured interview method are used to collect the opinions of six experts on the data results. Finally, the results are discussed with the multivariate inspection method. Although the current electric bicycle system is convenient, the study found that the service quality of the airport is sufficient; that the fare of the subway is low and popular with students if the system can ease the crowd during peak hours; and that the login and security check time can be shortened, which can help improve the operating convenience of the system interface and link the information of leisure and tourism activities. On the other hand, adjusting fares, increasing seats, planning for women-only ticketing measures and travel space, providing disinfection or cleaning facilities in public areas, and improving passenger’s public health literacy and epidemic prevention cooperation will further enhance the student travel experience, improve the smart city and green tourism network, and help achieve sustainable urban tourism. Full article
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