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Tourism Industry Recovery after COVID-19

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 19 September 2024 | Viewed by 1605

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School of Hospitality Leadership, Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University Chicago, IL 60604, USA
Interests: tourism strategy; tourism development; tourism technology; leadership
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Guest Editor
School of Hospitality Leadership, Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University Chicago, IL 60604, United States
Interests: tourism; international wine management; hospitality sales and marketing; revenue management and pricing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue has a focus on how the tourism industry has recovered since the COVID-19 pandenic. Of keen interest is how destinations are returning to pre-COVID-19 levels, given various governmental restrictions and individual market dynamics. Socio-cultural issues, the physical environment, and sustainability have been long-standing values to cherish in tourism destinations. Research that identifies how these key values were nourished or compromised in the recovery would be of high interest. Such research would expand the tourism literature, as it would contribute new insights into how destinations may recover after calamity.

1. Outline

a. FOCUS: This Special Issue has a focus on how the tourism industry has recovered since the COVID-19 pandenic.

b. SCOPE: Of keen interest is how destinations are returning to pre-COVID-19 levels, given various governmental restrictions and individual market dynamics.

c. PURPOSE: Socio-cultural issues, the physical environment, and sustainability have been long-standing values to cherish in tourism destinations. Research that identifies how these key values were nourished or compromised in the recovery would be of high interest.

2. Such research would expand the tourism literature, as it would contribute new insights into how destinations may recover after calamity.

Prof. Dr. Chris Roberts
Dr. Lisa Young
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • tourism development
  • tourism recovery
  • tourism economics
  • tourism marketing

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Servicescape Effects on Hotel Guests’ Willingness to Pay Premiums at Different Stages of Pandemic: A Multi-Phase Study
by Alei Fan, Sheryl F. Kline, Yiran Liu and Karen Byrd
Sustainability 2023, 15(21), 15252; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152115252 - 25 Oct 2023
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Drawing on servicescape theory, this research investigates guests’ perceptions of and responses to the protection and prevention practices launched by hotels at different stages of the pandemic. The research finds that hotel guests’ general response-efficacy beliefs positively influence their perception of the effectiveness [...] Read more.
Drawing on servicescape theory, this research investigates guests’ perceptions of and responses to the protection and prevention practices launched by hotels at different stages of the pandemic. The research finds that hotel guests’ general response-efficacy beliefs positively influence their perception of the effectiveness of the protection and prevention practices adopted in hotels’ physical and social servicescapes, and such positive relationships also show a significant increase from 2020 to 2021. The servicescape effects’ downstream results show that hotel guests are willing to pay premium prices for safety servicescapes manifested as protection and prevention practices implemented at the private space or related to employees. This research sheds light on servicescape theory by deconstructing the overall hotel servicescape concept into multiple dimensions, particularly in a health threat situation such as the pandemic, and empirically examining each dimension’s effects on guests’ monetary response at different timepoints. From a practical perspective, this study provides managerial insights into which servicescape dimensions warrant operational investments by hotels. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tourism Industry Recovery after COVID-19)
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