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  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,420 Views
50 Pages

Post-Pandemic Lessons for Destination Resilience and Sustainable Event Management: The Complex Learning Destination

  • Jesse Carswell,
  • Tazim Jamal,
  • Seunghoon Lee,
  • Donna Lee Sullins and
  • Kelly Wellman

28 February 2023

This paper aims to share post-pandemic lessons for destination resilience and the sustainability of events. It offers a new perspective that reimagines the space and place of events as learning destinations enmeshed in complex systems. Complexity ari...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,866 Views
16 Pages

The application of resilience thinking to tourism destination research is a new perspective on sustainable tourism and has gradually become a popular research topic. Some literature has been conducted on tourism destination resilience, but there has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,265 Views
19 Pages

9 May 2023

With the increasing uncertainty and complexity of disasters, the tourism industry in disaster-stricken areas is often hard hit, so it is urgent to improve the resilience of the tourism industry. Based on the perspective of regional economic resilienc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
10,394 Views
19 Pages

Destination Resilience and Innovation for Advanced Sustainable Tourism Management: A Bibliometric Analysis

  • Valentina Della Corte,
  • Giovanna Del Gaudio,
  • Fabiana Sepe and
  • Simone Luongo

16 November 2021

Over the years, literature on the topic of destination resilience has gained increasing attention in different fields (strategic management; sociology; etc.). Therefore, the potentiality of resilience in the tourism field has stimulated the definitio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,920 Views
20 Pages

Risk and Resilience in Tourism: How Political Instability and Social Conditions Influence Destination Choices

  • Panagiotis Grigoriadis,
  • Asimenia Salepaki,
  • Ioannis Angelou and
  • Dimitris Kourkouridis

In an era of increasing global uncertainty, tourism destinations face significant challenges due to political instability and social unrest, which shape travelers’ perceptions and decision making. This study examines the relationship between pe...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,421 Views
4 Pages

This article aims to give a contribution of digital literacy on the development of local destination tourism and its role in achieving economic resilience. Many business entities were impacted in the pandemic situation, where the economic entities ag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,865 Views
14 Pages

9 January 2024

The sustainability of tourism activities faces many challenges. Furthermore, in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their overall slow progress, tourism-related goals and targets are underachieved. To address these challenges,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,709 Views
17 Pages

Tourism and climate change have a two-way relation. Spatial planning can challenge this correlation, by making tourism destinations more resilient to climate change and tourism contributing less to the climate change acceleration. Based on literature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,176 Views
20 Pages

9 December 2025

Tourism in active conflict zones constitutes a distinct and contentious form of dark tourism, wherein visitors engage with sites marked by death and tragedy that have significantly shaped public consciousness. This study investigates hot-war tourism...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,946 Views
23 Pages

5 March 2025

This study examines community resilience in post-conflict tourism destinations of the Global South, where externally initiated and controlled tourism development often prevails. Using a conceptual research approach grounded in a comprehensive literat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,170 Views
34 Pages

17 February 2025

This study explores visitor perceptions and behaviors regarding sustainable tourism in Brighton, focusing on the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of sustainability across key tourism sectors, including Destination Management Organizatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
923 Views
17 Pages

1 November 2025

This study aims to advance knowledge in the concept of therapeutic milieus by connecting nature, spirituality, and health to develop sustainable destinations. It combines the advantages of a conceptual paper and a multi-case study, offering a range o...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
738 Views
3 Pages

15 April 2025

This article belongs to the Special Issue “Developing Sustainable Tourism Destinations in Times of Transition: Economic and Social Resilience in Destination Communities and the New Role of DDMMOs” [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,280 Views
17 Pages

3 September 2024

The need for a consistent marketing evaluation framework has been highlighted by destination authorities, who in collaboration with academia and marketing professionals have sought to formulate methodologies for measuring the impact of their campaign...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
13,388 Views
20 Pages

State-of-the-Art Review on Destination Marketing and Destination Management

  • Stephan Reinhold,
  • Pietro Beritelli,
  • Alan Fyall,
  • Hwan-Suk Chris Choi,
  • Christian Laesser and
  • Marion Joppe

29 November 2023

This article presents a narrative perspective review of the state-of-the-art of destination marketing and management. The past 15 years of developments, stretching from technological advances enabling methodological progress and new consumer behavior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,567 Views
14 Pages

9 March 2025

This study examines the impacts of women’s social, political, and psychological empowerment on their participation in civil societies and further its impacts on their entrepreneurial resilience. This study employed the quantitative approach, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,448 Views
19 Pages

23 September 2020

The 2018 Eastern Iburi Hokkaido earthquake in Japan caused infrastructural damage and tourism disruption within a natural-hazard-prone country. This research advances the theoretical foundation and development of natural disaster management through a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,417 Views
25 Pages

New Perspectives of Residents’ Perceptions in a Mature Seaside Destination

  • Fernando Almeida-García,
  • Rafael Cortes-Macías,
  • Antonia Balbuena-Vázquez and
  • M. Carmen-Hidalgo

20 May 2020

This research examines the relationship between residents of a mature tourist destination and tourism. To do this, the place attachment and rootedness shown by the residents towards the place where they live are assessed, as are their attitudes and l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
614 Views
32 Pages

14 December 2025

Tourism is a key spatial process linking human mobility, resource consumption, and environmental change. Despite growing awareness of climate risks, sustainable travel behavior often remains inconsistent with pro-environmental attitudes, reflecting t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,727 Views
20 Pages

19 August 2019

Tourism, and particularly residential tourism, has led to a change in the urban and demographic model of towns along the European Mediterranean coastline. Water as a resource limited and limiting for the growth of tourism is a popular topic in the sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,706 Views
23 Pages

Given the tourism industry’s risk and vulnerability to pandemics and the need to better understand the impacts on tourism destinations, this research assesses the effect of the COVID-19 outbreak on the variation of taxpayer units in the Mexican...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,737 Views
15 Pages

30 June 2021

While governments around the world are embarking on the path to recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, sustainable tourism planning is crucial, in particular in the hospitality sector, which enhances the resilience of destinations. However, many destinat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
847 Views
26 Pages

11 December 2025

Mountain cultural landscapes represent dynamic systems where heritage, policy, and tourism intersect to shape local resilience. This study explores how public incentives and adaptive reuse frameworks can transform traditional settlements into sustain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,974 Views
14 Pages

6 July 2018

The concept of resilience has recently received a substantial amount of attention in sustainable tourism research. Nevertheless, empirical studies on the factors that may influence the perceived resilience of community residents in tourism destinatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,421 Views
15 Pages

Assessment of Socioeconomic Resilience to Pandemic Disasters in Island Tourist Destinations

  • Adel Hafsi,
  • César Daniel Aguilar-Becerra,
  • Oscar Frausto-Martínez and
  • Alejandra Sarhai Rivas-Tapia

19 July 2023

The pandemic has led to a sharp contraction in economic activity with diverse businesses shutting down or reducing their operations. The COVID-19 pandemic is recognized as a challenge in the travel and tourism services industry. Therefore, this paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,515 Views
16 Pages

15 September 2022

In order to focus on the degree of adaptation and resilience of residents of tourist destinations to the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and to explore how the psychological resilience of residents affects their attitudes and behavioral inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
13,495 Views
19 Pages

Disaster management has begun to examine the unique role of the private sector in disaster relief. The hotel and lodging industry is an especially critical infrastructure for community disaster relief and resilience, providing many lifeline services...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
2,881 Views
23 Pages

Travelers’ (in)Resilience to Environmental Risks Emphasized in the Media and Their Redirecting to Medical Destinations: Enhancing Sustainability

  • Tamara Gajić,
  • Larisa A. Minasyan,
  • Marko D. Petrović,
  • Victor A. Bakhtin,
  • Anna V. Kaneeva and
  • Narine L. Wiegel

26 October 2023

This research delves into the intricate dynamics of travelers’ decision-making processes, particularly their response to the media’s portrayal of environmental risks and the subsequent redirection of their travel choices toward medical de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,469 Views
20 Pages

Contextual Factors of Resilient Tourism Destinations in a Pandemic Situation: Selected Cases from North and South Tyrol during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

  • Elisabeth Nöhammer,
  • Marco Haid,
  • Philipp Corradini,
  • Susanne Attenbrunner,
  • Peter Heimerl and
  • Robert Schorn

25 October 2022

This study examines critical factors for tourism destination resilience in the first year of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in North Tyrol (AT) and South Tyrol (IT). Based on a mixed-method approach, the summer seasons of 2019 and 2020 are compared regardin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
10,248 Views
12 Pages

29 July 2020

This study examines the degree of macroeconomic recovery of the Nepal tourism industry after a natural disaster using the autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA). The study investigated the case of Nepal’s earthquakes in 2015 and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,333 Views
22 Pages

Sustainable Cultural Tourism: Proposal for a Comparative Indicator-Based Framework in European Destinations

  • Mikel Zubiaga,
  • Amaia Sopelana,
  • Alessandra Gandini,
  • Héctor M. Aliaga and
  • Tarmo Kalvet

1 March 2024

Effective decision-making in tourism destinations relies significantly on employing suitable indicators for policy design and impact evaluation. However, the adoption of sustainability-focused indicators remains constrained in the field of cultural t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,284 Views
17 Pages

To explore the relationship between community support in tourist destinations and residents’ psychological well-being in the post-COVID-19 pandemic period, this study adopts the questionnaire survey method and draws the following conclusions by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,451 Views
17 Pages

28 April 2022

Focusing on rural destinations and calling on the evolutionary resilience concept as a theoretical lens, this paper investigates whether COVID-19 provokes “revenge tourism” after periods of lockdown or whether the pandemic can be used as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,746 Views
21 Pages

25 October 2021

Urbanization proceeds globally and is often driven by migration. Simultaneously, cities face severe exposure to environmental hazards such as floods and heatwaves posing threats to millions of urban households. Consequently, fostering urban household...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,811 Views
32 Pages

25 September 2022

Community-based tourism (CBT) has been adopted as an effective and practical solution to land use policies by governments that simultaneously pursue upgrading of local economy, conservation of local ecosystem and development of local communities. Con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,833 Views
20 Pages

Affective economies align people and places according to identities and emotional capital, particularly during compound crises such as COVID-19. Through an embodied research approach, affect becomes an integral part of furthering knowledge production...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
8,618 Views
26 Pages

Smart ‘Tourist Cities’ Revisited: Culture-Led Urban Sustainability and the Global Real Estate Market

  • Ioannis Vardopoulos,
  • Maria Papoui-Evangelou,
  • Bogdana Nosova and
  • Luca Salvati

28 February 2023

Smart tourism destinations have received increasing attention during the last few years. Digital technologies have reshaped the smart city paradigm in terms of both resilience and sustainability, capitalizing cities’ cultural and historical com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,227 Views
19 Pages

Bridging Visitors’ and Residents’ Perspectives in Destination Planning: A Sustainability and Governance Case Study of Piraeus Port

  • Nikolaos Georgopoulos,
  • Ioannis Katsanakis,
  • Evangelia Kopanaki,
  • Sotirios Varelas,
  • Asterios Stroumpoulis,
  • Ioannis Anastasopoulos,
  • Chryssoula Konstantopoulou,
  • Nikoletta Klada and
  • Georgios Tsoupros

Tourism planning in port cities faces the dual challenge of maximizing economic benefits while mitigating environmental and social pressures. This study examines the case of Piraeus, Greece, by integrating insights from both visitors and residents to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,509 Views
17 Pages

Understanding Tourists’ Behavioral Intention and Destination Support in Post-pandemic Recovery: The Case of the Vietnamese Domestic Market

  • Long Hai Duong,
  • Quyet Dinh Phan,
  • Tung Thanh Nguyen,
  • Da Van Huynh,
  • Thong Tri Truong and
  • Khanh Quoc Duong

12 August 2022

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 revit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
910 Views
18 Pages

4 December 2025

Crisis situations highlight the need for timely planning to mitigate their impacts on the economy and society. The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the importance of prevention, preparedness, and effective communication in tourism crises. As tourism...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,839 Views
20 Pages

14 January 2025

The narrow conceptualization of capitalism is increasingly challenged as destinations recognize the need to integrate equity and resilience into tourism development. Increasingly, destinations have been using tourism to move away from extractive indu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
19,037 Views
14 Pages

16 July 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the tourism industry like never before, resulting in massive losses of revenue and jobs around the world. Accordingly, the pandemic exacerbated the already existing sustainability challenges of the tourism i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,709 Views
17 Pages

9 May 2025

This study examines the relationship between tourists’ level of perceived safety in Thailand and their future behavioral intentions to revisit Thailand in a post-COVID-19 context. Moreover, the study also examines the moderating role of a desti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,507 Views
22 Pages

23 September 2025

The growth of tourism in coastal destinations has attracted academic attention due to the link between tourists’ motivations and their likelihood of recommending the destination. This study explores changes in tourist motivations, satisfaction, and r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,187 Views
22 Pages

22 September 2024

A significant number of people, either seasonally or permanently, migrate from the Thar Desert in Pakistan each year due to droughts caused by climate change. This study aims to investigate the determinants and consequences of these migration decisio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
990 Views
17 Pages

15 May 2025

In terms of climate change, while tourism’s natural resources may be considered climate vulnerable, a large part of tourism’s primary industries are high carbon consumers. With the growth of worldwide efforts to adopt climate resilience a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,504 Views
14 Pages

14 October 2021

The concept of a resilient city and its relationship with sustainable development has already received wide attention among academics, practitioners, and decision-makers, especially in the last decade. For many scholars, resilience is one of the conc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
8,176 Views
12 Pages

18 February 2016

Coastal tourism is the largest segment of global leisure tourism and it is firmly linked to the destination’s natural resources—with climatic resources chief among them. Through observations and survey responses of beach users, studies have evaluated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,793 Views
27 Pages

Fostering Urban Destination Prosperity through Post COVID-19 Sustainable Tourism in Craiova, Romania

  • Mirela Mazilu,
  • Amalia Niță,
  • Ionuț-Adrian Drăguleasa and
  • Oana Mititelu-Ionuș

31 August 2023

In accordance with the 2030 Agenda, the prosperity of tourist destinations holds a crucial role in the sustainable development of urban areas. Tourism represents an imperative solution in transitioning from survival to success after the COVID-19 pand...

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