African Tourism in Uncertain Times: Covid-19 Research Progress

Rogerson, Christian M.; Economics, Bunting Road; Rogerson, Jayne M.

doi:10.30892/gtg.38406-740

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“…The most productive institutions play a fundamental role (Zhang et al, 2015 ). In addition to the dominance of the US, the UK and China (Roychowdhury et al, 2022 ), Australia plays a cutting-edge role (Rogerson & Rogerson, 2021a ; Zhang et al, 2015 ) in disseminating scientific knowledge in the tourism field. This picture has not changed fundamentally since COVID-19 pandemic times, with leading tourism scholars providing guidance for tourism research in the future as authors of academic papers (Gössling et al, 2020 ) or guest editors of COVID-19-related special issues, such as Tourism Geographies 2020 vol.…”

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“…In addition, journals have developed special issues and/or are welcoming any form of academic paper from several locations addressing tourism issues caused by the pandemic. Furthermore, industry reports issued by national tourist organizations were also important sources of knowledge and input for numerous studies (Rogerson & Rogerson, 2021a , 2021b ). Along with the boom in academic publications, the originality of research published has also become a cutting-edge issue: originality can be understood regarding the theory, method or setting used (Buckley, 2022 ).…”

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Does geography matter? Implications for future tourism research in light of COVID-19

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Due to the 2019 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, tourism is undergoing fundamental changes that are affecting tourism research. This situation calls for in-depth analyses of tourism research. Scholars have already published review studies on COVID-19-related research within the tourism field; however, these studies do not connect findings, such as the research focus, research methodology and target group, to form a research profile, and the geographical patterns of the findings are not identified. study, COVID-19-related tourism studies were collected and analyzed in depth following the Preferred Reporting Items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) method. In addition, data-driven methods, such as spatial multilayer networks, frequent patterns and content-based analyses, were applied to identify research profiles and their geographic patterns. This study pointed out the role of geographic patterns in tourism research, going beyond the research of the authors. Moreover, topics, focus destinations, applied methodologies and employed data sources have relevant geographic patterns. Four dominant research profiles that show that a shift can be observed in tourism research toward data sources and research methods were identified. Due to COVID-19, the strengthening of the application of quantitative methods and employment of secondary data sources are needed.

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“…Furthermore, the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 virus will be present in the future in some regions imposes the necessity of vaccination for travel reasons to individuals traveling from or to regions with higher rates of COVID-19 infections. Assessing the predictors of vaccination for travel reasons may help our understanding of vaccination behavior [ 7 , 8 , 9 ] and the involved risks potentially harmful to human health and to the physical built environment [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ].…”

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Supporting Tourism by Assessing the Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccination for Travel Reasons

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The persistence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus imposed vaccination passports for traveling in most countries. We investigated psychological factors that predict the intention to vaccinate for travel. In a cross-sectional study, we examined how demographic variables, vaccination status, perceived risk of infection and severity of disease contracted at travel destination, safety and effectiveness of vaccines against contracting COVID-19 during travel, and conspiracy beliefs are related to intention to vaccinate for travel. Further analyses involved differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals in a Romanian sample regarding conspiracy beliefs, attitudes about vaccines, and self-efficacy of controlling COVID-19 infection. Results showed that the intention to vaccinate for travel reasons is best predicted by vaccination status and perceptions of safety and efficacy of vaccines against COVID-19. Thus, vaccinated individuals believing that vaccines are safe and effective most probably will take another vaccine booster if it will allow them to travel. Positive relationships of the intention to vaccinate for travel reasons were found with age, vaccination status, conspiracy beliefs, perceptions of safety and effectiveness of vaccines, intention to travel, and a more cautious approach to travel. No significant relationships were found between perceptions of risk for self or for transmitting the disease to others, severity of disease, and the intention to vaccinate for travel. We also found significant differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated participants, as unvaccinated participants showed higher levels of conspiracy beliefs and less trust in the safety and efficacy of vaccines. We conclude that campaigns focused on promoting information on the safety and efficacy of vaccines is the most important direction for promoting vaccination in young travelers.

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“…Although the majority of literature concerning tourism in South Africa centres on contemporary issues and debates, an observable trend in the country's tourism scholarship is the emergence of several research investigations which excavate tourism's past and tourism history. Arguably, an understanding and learning from the past is highly relevant in the uncertain times of the COVID-19 environment (Rogerson and Baum, 2020;Rogerson and Rogerson, 2021a). The appearance and strengthening of an historical tradition in South African tourism scholarship is distinctive in tourism literature about the Global South most especially as it furnishes fresh insight into processes of tourism destination change (Rogerson and Rogerson, 2021a;Saarinen and Rogerson, 2021).…”

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“…Arguably, an understanding and learning from the past is highly relevant in the uncertain times of the COVID-19 environment (Rogerson and Baum, 2020;Rogerson and Rogerson, 2021a). The appearance and strengthening of an historical tradition in South African tourism scholarship is distinctive in tourism literature about the Global South most especially as it furnishes fresh insight into processes of tourism destination change (Rogerson and Rogerson, 2021a;Saarinen and Rogerson, 2021).…”

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TOURISM EVOLUTION IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA: FROM NATIVE RESERVE TO APARTHEID BANTUSTANS c 1920-1994

Rogerson¹

2022

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Historical research is valuable for understanding the evolutionary pathways of tourism destinations. The aim is to contribute to the historical tourism scholarship of rural destinations in the Global South. The focus is the development pathways of rural tourism in specific areas of South Africa, namely the rural (former) Homelands or Bantustans that were created by apartheid planning. The study uses an archival approach with material sourced from a range of historical documentary sources. The historical specificities of these rural spaces catalysed the appearance of particular forms of rural tourism. The analysis unfolds through three sections of material. First, the earliest period for the development of tourism in the ‘Native Reserves’ is chronicled. The second section reviews the apartheid project for the making of the Bantustans. Third, the tourism developments occurring in these rural spaces are examined for the apartheid period from 1948 to the early 1990s focussing especially on the phenomenon of casino tourism.

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African Tourism in Uncertain Times: Covid-19 Research Progress

Cited by 20 publications

References 69 publications

Does geography matter? Implications for future tourism research in light of COVID-19

Does geography matter? Implications for future tourism research in light of COVID-19

Supporting Tourism by Assessing the Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccination for Travel Reasons

TOURISM EVOLUTION IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA: FROM NATIVE RESERVE TO APARTHEID BANTUSTANS c 1920-1994

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