Tourism Through Troubled Times: Challenges and Opportunities of the Tourism Industry in 21st Century(Tourism Security-Safety and Post Conflict Destinations)

Tourism Through Troubled Times explores the unparalleled crisis within the current global tourism industry, which includes not only a wide range of risks that threaten economic activity but also a wider and deeper epistemological crisis. Divided into four sections covering risk perception, tourism in crisis, new forms of tourism and the future of tourism in a fractured world, this edited collection examines issues including the impacts of the climate crisis on tourism, post-disaster marketing and management, use of robotics tourism, dark tourism, virtual tourism, over-tourism and tourism-phobia. The editors present perspectives from a range of scholarly voices throughout a diverse array of chapters, offering a multidisciplinary view on tourism’s recovery and possible future. Tourism Through Troubled Times is an illuminating read for all scholars of Tourism Studies, Hospitality Management, and the Sociology of Tourism, as well as practitioners and managers within the hospitality sector, and gives clear insights into the industry’s next steps forward.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Tourism Through Troubled Times: Emerging Issues and New Pathways for the 21st Century Tourism; Maximilliano E. Korstanje, Hugues Seraphin, and Shem W. Maingi Chapter 1. A Problem Called Alterity: The Position of the “Other” in HBO Saga Westworld; Maximilliano E. Korstanje and Hugues Seraphin Chapter 2. Digital Skills and Tourism Workforce Recovery in the Post COVID-19 Pandemic Era: Case of Small and Medium-sized Tourism Enterprises (SMTEs) in Nairobi, Kenya; Shem W. Maingi and Hildah Mumbi Wachira Chapter 3. A Perennial State of Crisis Management at a Tourism Destination in the Global South: The Case of South Africa; Mandla Sibisi, Matilda Mashapa, and Unathi Sonwabile Henama Chapter 4. Tourism, Co-location and Networking: A Haitian Contemporary Crisis and Future Prospects; Michelle Mcleod and Hugues Seraphin Chapter 5. Surfing in the Dark: Comparable Study Cases Between Ground-zero, US and Republica de Cromañon, Argentina; Maximilliano E. Korstanje Chapter 6. The Perception of Anti-COVID19 Practices, Experience, Satisfaction and Behaviour in Tourist Accommodation in Canary Islands; Rita Carballo Fuentes, Leon Carmelo, and Maria Carballo Chapter 7. COVID-19: An Opportunity to Theorise (Online) Teaching Practices in Tourism and Related Topics; Pinaz Tiwari, Hugues Seraphin, and Vanessa Gowresunkar Chapter 8. Pandemic Recovery Strategies: A Disaster Management Tourism Framework; Joseph Chacko Chennattuserry, Bindi Varghese, Elangovan N, and Sandhya H Chapter 9. The Digitalization in Latin America and The Caribbean Hotel Sector in a Post Pandemic Environment; Phalesta Toussaint and Cristina Jönsson Chapter 10. Sustainability Perspectives of the Wildlife Conservancy-Based Tourism Model in a Post-Pandemic Context in Kenya; Joseph K Muriithi Chapter 11. The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Russian Tourists’ Demand and Preferences; Oleg E. Afanasiev and Alexandra V. Afanasieva Chapter 12. Impacts and Adaptive Strategies of the Hotel Sector Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Hotel Sector in Siem Reap Province; Nehm Sochea and Sotheara Kham Chapter 13. Crisis Management and Resilience – The Case of Small Businesses in Tourism; Sofia Lachhab, Tina Šegota, Alastair M. Morrison, and J. Andres Coca-Stefaniak

About the Author :
Maximiliano E. Korstanje is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Palermo, Argentina. Hugues Seraphin is a Senior Lecturer in Event and Tourism Management Studies at the University of Winchester’s Business School, UK. Shem Wambugu Maingi is a Lecturer within the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Kenyatta University, Kenya.

Review :
"Once again I want to congratulate Dr. Maximilliano Korstanje, Hugues Seraphin and Shem Maingi and the team of scholars for having given to the world and a valuable academic work to help the tourism industry face its twenty-first century emerging issues. As is typical of many of the other books written or edited by Korstanje, Seraphin & Maingi. This book offers wisdom and guidance not only for tourism scientists but also those who work in the applied field of tourism. This newest book touches on a number of value subjects, including tourism and the digital world, some of the world’s most challenging tourism destinations such as South Africa and Haiti, the impact of pandemics and especially Covid-19 on tourism. This book will be not only a window to the world of tourism but a handbook of how to handle new crises as they emerge." “This book advances a bold perspective on tourism: while it is generally true that COVID-19 created troubles for tourism growth, what is even more true is that it merely exacerbated the troubles that were already brewing in the background; also, globally, COVID-19 activated the process of reinventing tourism in fundamentally different ways. This is an exciting opportunity for newer forms of tourism and management styles. The contributions included in this volume explore these dimensions. An excellent compendium of a very diverse set of viewpoints.” "In this new book we are given the opportunity to scrutinise perceptions and representations of crisis faced by tourism as an industry and a system of services in the 21st century. Building on their previously published work, the editors of the compendium bring together an exciting array of case studies and fresh analytical propositions, helping us to reflect on what it means to live and travel in troubled times."