Building Tourism Resilience through Communication
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Background and Sampling Procedures
2.2. Instrument and Data Collection Procedures
2.3. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Crafting Normalcy
We would every day through the week, at 11 o’clock, we just pick a different book and read to the children… Sometimes, we would do a farm tour…But it was more or less to continue engagement with our customers and try to help the parents find something for their children to do.
3.2. Affirming Identity Anchors
3.3. Maintaining Communication Networks
A lot of the associations I’ve been affiliated with like the North American Farmers Direct Marketing Association, …, the North Carolina Agritourism [Network] Association, those have done a lot of things as far as webinars and networking, to help people deal with or learn how people are dealing with things.
3.4. Putting Alternative Logics to Work
3.5. Legitimizing Negative Feelings While Foregrounding Productive Action
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Brune, S.; Knollenberg, W.; Vilá, O. Building Tourism Resilience through Communication. Tour. Hosp. 2024, 5, 51-59. https://doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp5010004
Brune S, Knollenberg W, Vilá O. Building Tourism Resilience through Communication. Tourism and Hospitality. 2024; 5(1):51-59. https://doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp5010004
Chicago/Turabian StyleBrune, Sara, Whitney Knollenberg, and Olivia Vilá. 2024. "Building Tourism Resilience through Communication" Tourism and Hospitality 5, no. 1: 51-59. https://doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp5010004