Abstract:COVID-19 reaction policies have had the effect of putting the tourism economy into a form of forced hibernation. Currently there is speculation about what will happen as tourism begins to emerge from its dormant state. In this article, we use the concept of a system to analyze the potential research implications of COVID-19 effects on tourism. In doing so, we firmly place tourism within the concept of a system that relies on a steady flow of money from tourists to function. Three scenarios, each with two end s… Show more
“… Bausch et al, 2021 Demirović Bajrami et al, 2021 E and Waltman, 2020 H, 2020 H, 2021 Higgins-Desbiolles, 2020b K.M, 2020 Lapointe, 2020 Liu et al, M.-C, 2021 N, 2021 R.A, 2021 Stephen and Catherine, 2001 W.C, 2021 Wilkins et al, 2021 Yang et al, 2017 Zenker et al, 2021 …”
“… Bausch et al, 2021 Demirović Bajrami et al, 2021 E and Waltman, 2020 H, 2020 H, 2021 Higgins-Desbiolles, 2020b K.M, 2020 Lapointe, 2020 Liu et al, M.-C, 2021 N, 2021 R.A, 2021 Stephen and Catherine, 2001 W.C, 2021 Wilkins et al, 2021 Yang et al, 2017 Zenker et al, 2021 …”
“…While the tourist perspective has to date dominated the discussion around COVID-19 recovery (Bausch et al, 2020), we explored the central role that FLEs play during crises given that the tourism industry is extremely dependent on well-trained and qualified employees in running their operations. This research highlighted the importance of developing human resource management strategies which might be able to mitigate or even avoid the impact of crises on FLEs (Ertaş et al, 2021).…”
This study locates the COVID-19 pandemic in the realm of crisis management and by applying a novel paradox and sensemaking perspective, we illustrate how tourism organizations dealt with tensions between maintaining business as usual and preparing for the uncertain in the midst of an imminent winter season. We argue that it is not so much the novelty of the COVID-19 crisis per se but the paradoxes it created that should be considered if we are to understand how the crisis management of organizations unfolded in practice. We zoom in on the ad-hoc crisis management practices of small and medium-sized enterprises which have barely been analyzed through the lens of how they handled the pandemic and address this gap from the perspective of employees on the frontline. Using 22 interviews with regular and seasonal employees as a database, we show how employees perceived organizational attempts to manage the crisis and explore the interplay between organizational responses and employees' individual sensemaking/sensegiving attempts for coping with a paradoxical situation. Our contribution emphasizes paradox recognition as a critical sensemaking outcome for navigating an extraordinary crisis situation. The implications highlight several measures for coping with crises and securing operations once they are over.
“…Given the abrupt, unprecedented magnitude of the infectious disease COVID-19, there was a rapid, growing interest in the academic community to investigate and understand the unusual phenomenon (Bausch et al 2021;Zenker and Kock 2020). According to the literature review by Yang et al (2021b) about COVID-19 research in tourism journals, studies related to the pandemic and its consequences on travel and tourism have been approached from various perspectives and themes such as: perceptions, motivations, behavioral intentions, and other psychological effects on tourists, consumer well-being, emotions and mental health, businesses' responses and strategies addressing the coronavirus propagation, sustainability and inclusivity issues, or technology adoption and service delivery/innovations.…”
Section: Tourism Research On Covid-19 and Tax-related Issuesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Research on tax-related topics has not received attention in the travel and tourism literature during the pandemic, since the academic community has focused its efforts on studying the most immediate disruptions of the sanitary crisis on topics as varied as the perception and behavior of travelers, the operative changes adopted by tourism services firms, or the communication and news dissemination about the coronavirus for tourists (Travel and Tourism Transformed 2021). However, considering the importance of tax revenues for tourism regions (Bird 1992;Gooroochurn and Milner 2008), analyzing the effects of the pandemic on taxation and the public finances of tourism destinations remains a critical issue to address as these emerge from the COVID-19 crisis and require public funds generation (Bausch et al 2021). The governments of tourism-reliant economies, especially those in developing countries, are traditionally considered to be risky entities by the financial community due to their unstable, volatile taxation levels and high risk of public deficits (Bostan et al 2018;Hoti et al 2005;Lee and Chen 2021;Shareef and Hoti 2005).…”
Given the tourism industry’s risk and vulnerability to pandemics and the need to better understand the impacts on tourism destinations, this research assesses the effect of the COVID-19 outbreak on the variation of taxpayer units in the Mexican Caribbean region, which includes some of the major sun-and-sand beach destinations in Latin America. Using monthly data of registered taxpayer entities at the state and national levels as the analysis variable, probability distributions and definite integrals are employed to determine variations of the year following the lockdown, compared with previous years’ data. Results indicate that despite the government’s measures to restrict businesses’ operations and a reduction in tourism activities, registered taxpayers at the regional level did not decrease for most of 2020. Further, as business activities and tourism recovered, taxpayer units increased at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021. Surprisingly, such a pattern was not observed at the national level, which yielded no statistically significant variations. A discussion of factors influencing the resilience of the tourism region in the study (e.g., outbound markets’ geographic proximity, absence of travel restrictions, closure of competing destinations) and implications for public finances are presented.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.