Tourism Through Troubled Times: Challenges and Opportunities of the Tourism Industry in 21st Century

The book "Tourism Through Troubled Times" explores the crisis in the global tourism industry, including risks, epistemological crisis, and impacts of climate crisis, post-disaster marketing, robotics, dark tourism, virtual tourism, over-tourism, and tourism-phobia. It offers a multidisciplinary view on tourism's recovery and future, providing insights for scholars, practitioners, and managers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 23 September 2022
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

The current global tourism industry faces an unparalleled crisis, encompassing not only a wide range of risks that threaten economic activity but also a broader and deeper epistemological crisis. This edited collection, divided into four sections covering risk perception, tourism in crisis, new forms of tourism, and the future of tourism in a fractured world, examines various issues such as the impacts of the climate crisis on tourism, post-disaster marketing and management, the use of robotics in tourism, dark tourism, virtual tourism, over-tourism, and tourism-phobia. The editors present perspectives from a diverse range of scholarly voices across a multitude of chapters, offering a multidisciplinary view on the recovery and potential future of tourism.

This book is a valuable resource for scholars of Tourism Studies, Hospitality Management, and the Sociology of Tourism, as well as practitioners and managers within the hospitality sector. It provides clear insights into the industry's next steps forward and is an illuminating read for anyone interested in understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the tourism industry in the years to come.

Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803823126