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.

Autorentext

Godwell Nhamo is a Full Professor and Exxaro Chair in Business and Climate Change at the University ofSouth Africa (UNISA), South Africa. He is a National Research Foundation (NRF) C-Rated researcher in the fields of Climate Change and Governance, Green Economy and Sustainable Development. He holds a PhD from Rhodes University (South Africa), an MSc from the University of Botswana (Botswana) and a BSc Honours from the University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe).

Kaitano Dube is an Ecotourism Management Lecturer at Vaal University of Technology (South Africa). He is a tourism geographer researching in the area of tourism climate change and sustainability. He holds a PhD and MSc from the University of South Africa (South Africa). He graduated with a BSc Hons from Midlands State University in Gweru (Zimbabwe).

David Chikodzi is a Post-doctoral fellow in the Exxaro Chair in Business and Climate Change at the University of South Africa. He holds a PhD in Geography and Environment Science from the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). He also holdsa Masters' degree in Environmental Policy and Planning, as well as a Bachelor of Arts(Honours) Degree in Geography from the University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe).

Inhalt
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.