Tourism Geographies and Covid-19

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SPECIAL ISSUE

Reset: Visions of travel and tourism after the global COVID-19 transformation of 2020

VOLUME 22 (3) - July 2020

1. INTRODUCTION: Visions of travel and tourism after the global COVID-19 transformation of 2020 - Guest Editors: Alan A. Lew, Joseph M. Cheer, Michael Haywood, Patrick Brouder & Noel B. Salazar (free access)
   
2. Transforming the (tourism) world for good and (re)generating the potential ‘new normal’ - Irena Ateljevic
   
3. “We can’t return to normal”: committing to tourism equity in the post-pandemic age - Stefanie Benjamin, Alana Dillette & Derek H. Alderman 
4. Reset redux: possible evolutionary pathways towards the transformation of tourism in a COVID-19 world - Patrick Brouder
5. COVID-19, indigenous peoples and tourism: a view from New Zealand - Anna Carr  (free access)
   
6. Regenerative tourism needs diverse economic practices - Jenny Cave & Dianne Dredge
   
7. Human flourishing, tourism transformation and COVID-19: a conceptual touchstone - Joseph M. Cheer (free access)
   
8. Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy - J. A. Cooper & Derek H. Alderman
9. Ecological grief generates desire for environmental healing in tourism after COVID-19 - Émilie Crossley
   
10. How should tourism education values be transformed after 2020? - Johan Edelheim
    
11. Post COVID-19 ecological and social reset: moving away from capitalist growth models towards tourism as Buen Vivir - Phoebe Everingham & Natasha Chassagne
    
12. COVID-19 is expanding global consciousness and the sustainability of travel and tourism - Adriana Galvani, Alan A. Lew & Maria Sotelo Perez (free access)
    
13. Pandemics, transformations and tourism: be careful what you wish for - C. Michael Hall, Daniel Scott & Stefan Gössling (free access)
    
14. A post-COVID future: tourism community re-imagined and enabled - K. Michael Haywood (free access)  
    
15. Socialising tourism for social and ecological justice after COVID-19 - Freya Higgins-Desbiolles (free access)  
    
16. The COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity for escaping the unsustainable global tourism path - Dimitri Ioannides & Szilvia Gyimóthy (full open access)
    
17. Reconnecting tourism after COVID-19: the paradox of alterity in tourism areas - Dominic Lapointe
     
18. COVID-19 is an unnatural disaster: Hope in revelatory moments of crisis - Mary Mostafanezhad (free access)  
19. Travel and [adventure] tourism after COVID-19 – business as usual or opportunity to reset? - Sanjay K. Nepal
20. COVID-19: from temporary de-globalisation to a re-discovery of tourism? - Piotr Niewiadomski
    
21. Critical tourism scholars: brokers of hope - Tomas Pernecky
    
22. Lessons from COVID-19 can prepare global tourism for the economic transformation needed to combat climate change - Bruce Prideaux, Michelle Thompson & Anja Pabel (free access)  
    
23. Reconsidering global mobility – distancing from mass cruise tourism in the aftermath of COVID-19 - Luc Renaud
    
24. The COVID-19 crisis: Opportunities for sustainable and proximity tourism - Francesc Romagosa (free access)  
    
25. The transformational festival as a subversive toolbox for a transformed tourism: lessons from Burning Man for a COVID-19 world - Ian Rowen
    
26. A mindful shift: an opportunity for mindfulness-driven tourism in a post-pandemic world - Uglješa Stankov, Viachaslau Filimonau & Miroslav D. Vujičić
    
27. The novel spaces and power-geometries in tourism and hospitality after 2020 will belong to the ‘local’ - Lucia Tomassini & Elena Cavagnaro
    
28. COVID-19 leads to a new context for the “right to tourism”: a reset of tourists’ perspectives on space appropriation is needed - Sabrina Tremblay-Huet
    
29. From high-touch to high-tech: COVID-19 drives robotics adoption - Zhanjing Zeng, Po-Ju Chen & Alan A. Lew
    
30. CONCLUSION: Reflections and discussions: tourism matters in the new normal post COVID-19 - Guest Editors: Patrick Brouder, Simon Teoh, Noel B. Salazar, Mary Mostafanezhad, Jessica Mei Pung, Dominic Lapointe, Freya Higgins Desbiolles, Michael Haywood, C. Michael Hall & Helene Balslev Clausen (free access)  

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International Arrivals to the US Projections

Time for a forecast of arrivals to the US,  by the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO.

I think it is  bit optimistic, but time will tell.

For example, they are predicting a 3% increase from Canada and today essentially the borders are blocked for all non-essential travel.  My planned trip to the Maritime Provinces had to be postponed because of Covid-19

Ecoanxiety

Learned a new word today.

Ecoanxiety (someone who is ecoanxious, obviously).

According to the article in The New York Times (26 July 2020), the American Psychological Association  defines it as a chronic fear of environmental doom.

I will be dead before the shit hits the fan, (sorry about the language), but others with children or younger people can be expected to feel the full impact of our citizens putting money and profit over the long term health of our planet.

The University students I mentor will be the ones who have to push the environment to the top of the agenda.  They will do this by voting, protesting and communicating a message of hope to others.  I am inspired by many of these young people.

Me?  I will try to do my best as a global citizen to help others.

Otherwise, we are fucked. (again sorry, but this serious).

July 25, 1974

Hit Snowden Virginia on this date and bought some groceries at a small store.  If I recall, I got a hunk of cheese too.  I used two methods for food.  For the most part I bought food along the trail.  Occasionally the choices were limited, like Snowden, but in other towns we had full size super markets.  I also had some food mailed to me, but that was limited to items I knew I couldn't get along the trail. 

For dinners, I had Mac and Cheese, way too often.

I didn't take any photos on this day, but if this google street view works for you, this is a shot trail north leaving the James River Valley.

Here is a streetview of a AT Parking area east of the river.  Doubt that it was there in 1974.

Time to get published (in print)

Journal publishing is an expected job responsibility for faculty.  And for that matter, just about any publishing will help advance an academics career (government documents, books etc.).

But for many publications it can take some time from the point of submission to the final print version.  And that of course is after you write the paper in the first place.

It has become faster today with the automated and online manuscript submission platforms that take the original paper and distribute it to the editors and reviewers.  But there is still a lot of work involved to review the paper at this point.

Some journals are fast and other are slow.  And that is not a criticism of the journal or editors; it could be a function of the volume of papers received and the backlog to fill an issue with 10 or so papers.

Long story short, for our "Geography of Fear" paper:

Pages 262-275 | Received 03 Jun 2018, Accepted 04 Jun 2019, Published online: 22 Jun 2019

Abstract: Urban centres encompass a variety of tourist attractions. To expand these offerings, the opportunities must recognize the temporal and spatial constraints of travel. Temporally a night-time economy can fuel visitation and has traditionally been centered on entertainment, food and drinking establishments. The former has broad appeal to all visitors while the latter are more attractive options for the young and fearless. Spatially, to attract a broader audience of visitors, one most overcome the fear of the night so important in family friendly opportunities. Following the examples in several cities, the commodification of dark tourism themes has been shown to encourage family visitation, despite the macabre theme of the attractions. For the purpose of this study, an assessment of common fears is asked of night-time tourists as they prepare to enter an urban haunted attraction. The attraction is promoted to scare the guest but at the same time, expected to be safe. In this manner we begin to understand the dual nature of fear (i.e. repel vs attract) evident in night-time tourism experiences.

I just got notice of the paper publication info:

"Now you're published, you'll hopefully want to share your article with friends or colleagues. Every author at Routledge (including all co-authors) gets 50 free online copies of their article to share with their networks. Your eprint link is now ready to use and is: "

Link 

Two years from submission to print!   Enjoy.

Trail Work on the Appalachian Trail

Yesterday, I spent the day with 8 other volunteers sweating in the Tyringham Valley on the Appalachian Trail.  I say sweat, but nothing like the dedicated folks who were out this past weekend.

You may know that I write a lot about the AT, and after a chance to do some trail work yesterday, I figured I would share some of photos from the day.

The project was to relocate a short section of the AT away from a wetlands area that had to be bridged and was still muddy.  Cutting through the brush was tough, but the ground was higher and dryer.  This trail sign is actually on Webster Road, the route I took from home to check out my monitoring section.

A bit west, we parked at the Tyringham Cobble parking lot and hiked about a mile into the area that needed the work.

  

We had to move some rocks, and then backfill the holes.

But these rocks were moved to build steps for the some brook that had to be crossed.

A nice cleared trail was blazed and will help keep the hikers feet dry.

A great day with some great volunteers.  We practiced all the ATC Covid-19 Guidelines.

Support the Great American Outdoors Act

The US Senate just passed the Great American Outdoors Act and now the House must take action!

Tell your Representative to urge leadership to hold a vote on the Senate passed bill and to co-sponsor the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act!

Connecting Appalachian Trail, Conservation Landscapes, & Communities

From the National Park Service webpage "National parks partner with gateway communities and other organizations for conservation initiatives. (May 2020)"

Enjoy.

https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm?id=9FC3D1A4-E422-42D8-C421707CDA3C6482

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7YkyIc7mno

The Nature Conservancy Protects 127 Acres for the AT

Always good news when organizations help protect the Appalachian Trail..  In Pennsylvania that is the case.

thank you.

LOST SKI RESORTS

since we are getting a heat wave later this week, I thought I would share a site that identifies all the lost ski resorts in New England.  See http://www.nelsap.org/ma/ma.html for Massachusetts.  Jug End, near the AT is found here.

Reason?   well in part it is the mega corporations buying out the smaller family run places.  But climate change has something to do with it also.