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Lessons from COVID-19 can prepare global tourism for the economic transformation needed to combat climate change

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the cessation of almost all international travel in the first half of 2020. A return to pre-pandemic growth patterns will take time and depend on the depth and extent of the recession sparked by COVID-19. The recovery phase will overlap with global efforts to deal with the evolving climate crisis. For the tourism industry to thrive in a future world it must look beyond the temptation of adopting strategies based on a return to the pre-COVID-19 normal of the past and instead seek to understand how it should respond to the emerging transformation of the global economy to carbon neutrality. Many of the lessons that emerged from the pandemic can be applied to strategies to deal with climate change. Of most interest is the success of strategies such as “flattening the curve”. Application of similar strategies plus adoption of the circular economy model to wind back Green House Gas emissions will help avert the global environmental disaster that will occur if global temperatures continue to increase. These strategies point to what a future carbonneutral economic production system might look like, the path to which could offer the tourism industry numerous opportunities to transform from the current model that favours a high resource consumption model to one that is environmentally friendly and resource neutral.

History

Editor

Lew AA; Cheers JM; Brouder P; Mostafanezhad M

Start Page

213

End Page

224

Number of Pages

12

ISBN-10

103212136X

ISBN-13

9781032121369

Publisher

Routledge

Place of Publication

Abingdon, UK

Peer Reviewed

  • Yes

Open Access

  • No

Author Research Institute

  • Centre for Regional Economics and Supply Chain (RESC)

Era Eligible

  • Yes

Chapter Number

21

Number of Chapters

28

Parent Title

Global tourism and Covid-19 implications for theory and practice

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