Counting the Cost of COVID-19 on the Global Tourism Industry

This book profiles preliminary findings on the impact of COVID-19 on the travel, tourism and hospitality sector. Starting with a narrative relating COVID-19 to the global development agendas, the book proceeds with a focus on global tourism value chains and linkages between COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Other perspectives addressed in separate chapters include impacts of COVID-19 on various industries within the global tourism value chain including aviation, airports, cruise ships, car rentals as well as ride and share car services, hotels, restaurants, sporting, pilgrimage and religious tourism, gaming and entertainment, and the stock market. The book also includes chapters on corporate, philanthropic and public donations, as well as tourism economic stimulus packages. It then concludes with a chapter focusing on building back a better tourism sector post-COVID-19 that strongly draws from the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030) and the disaster cycle. To this end, this book is suitable as a read for several professionals in disciplines such as tourism and hospitality studies, economics, sustainable development, development studies, environmental sciences, geography, politics, planning and public health.

Part1. Introduction and Background.- Chapter1. The context: COVID-19, global development agendas and tourism.- Part2. Conceptual Framework for COVID-19 and Tourism.- Chapter2. Global tourism value chains, Sustainable Development Goals and COVID-19 .- Chapter3. Preparedness and responses to COVID-19: A comparison from selected countries.- Part3. Impact of COVID-19 on Industries within (Global) Tourism Value Chains.- Chapter4. COVID-19 and implications for the aviation sector: A global perspective.- Chapter5. Impact of COVID-19 on the global network of airports.- Chapter6. Counting the ongoing costs of COVID-19 on global cruise ship industry.- Chapter7. Impact of COVID-19 on car rentals as well as ride and share car services.- Chapter8. Impacts and implications of COVID-19 on the global hotel industry and Airbnb.- Chapter9. Restaurants and COVID-19: A focus on sustainability and recovery pathways.- Chapter10. Impact of COVID-19 on the global sporting industry and related tourism.- Chapter11. Impact of COVID-19 on pilgrimage and religious tourism.- Chapter12. Implications of COVID-19 on gaming, leisure and entertainment.- Chapter13. COVID-19 and the stock market: Impacts on tourism-related companies.- Part4. Philanthropy and Tourism Economic Stimulus Packages.- Chapter14. Tracking of corporate, philanthropic and public donations to dislodge COVID-19.- Chapter15. Tourism economic stimulus packages as a response to COVID-19.- Part5. Conclusion and policy recommendations.- Chapter16. Conclusions and policy recommendations: Building back better global tourism systems post COVID-19.