Economic and Social Consequences of the Coronavirus Health Crisis: Mahahual, a Ghost Town on the Caribbean Coast
This article addresses the economic and social implications of the COVID-19 health crisis in the coastal community of Mahahual, Mexico. Dependent on cruise tourism, this community has to adapt workers and new spaces for exchange and community solidarity are created.
Farm Standards
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council Farm Standards include eleven robust marine farming standards for over 17 marine species groups and an additional standard for seaweed. This resource is useful for anyone working in coastal agritourism.
Ecotourism Principles and Practices
This textbook was written for tourism students and industry practitioners and researchers provides a basis for studies into environment-based tourism, covering key topics of management, economics and environmental impacts of the tourism sector.
Reimagining Resilience: COVID-19 and Marine Tourism in Indonesia
This paper uses an agency-based livelihood resilience framework to examine the social structures, agency, and livelihood capital of the surrounding socio-ecological systems as driven by these operations in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on tourism. This research urges academics, practitioners, and business owners to ‘reimagine’ the potential of tourism to first and foremost empower […]
The Seychelles: Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
This case study features the Seychelles response to the COVID-19 pandemic where only 11 cases were recorded with no community transmission, and the country was only closed for under 2 months.
Smarter, Kinder, Safer: Booking.com Reveals Five Predictions for the Future of Travel
This article summarizes Booking.com research findings from over 20,000 travellers across 28 countries*, including 995 from Australia, revealing five predictions for the future of travel in a COVID-19 reality.
Flight of Fancy Podcast: How will we travel in 2021?
This podcast provides an overlook of how to travel safely and affordably, planning ahead, and contributing to building a better world of travel and tourism.
Overtourism and COVID-19: Lack of tourists actually harming environment in many cases
This article describes some examples of negative impacts on the environment caused by a lack of tourism.
Beyond COVID-19: the Road to Recovery for the Travel Industry
This report provides an analysis of the road to recovery for the global travel and hospitality industry based on extensive quantitative survey and site behavioral data. It presents five distinct stages to recovery and includes business planning and marketing strategies for hospitality businesses, destinations, brands, and advertisers.
COVID-19 Funding for Small Island Developing States
This UN resource offers an interactive tool to view COVID-19 Funding for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) around the world.