“…Consequently, acknowledging the necessity of an in-depth understanding of the pandemic's impact determined during the last four years an abundance of studies that investigated the effects that COVID-19 pandemic had on tourism, which led to a significant development of the literature on crises and tourism. This development of the literature involved empirical research conducted both at a global or larger scale (Gorina et al, 2022;Gössling et al, 2021;Khalid et al, 2021;Plzáková and Smeral, 2022;Škare et al, 2021) and, even more frequent, at a national or local level (Alshiqi and Sahiti, 2022;Cardenete et al, 2022;Duro et al, 2022;Foo et al, 2020;Hyasat, 2022;Imeri and Gil-Alana, 2022;Kinczel and Müller, 2022;King et al, 2021;Payne et al, 2021;Wang et al, 2022). The perspectives and approaches regarding the impact of the pandemic are very diverse among these studies, and while inevitably most studies emphasize the severe negative impact that the pandemic had on tourism flows, on tourists' behaviours and their travel choices or on businesses and employees, their attention was also oriented towards understanding how the tourism sector started to recover after the initial shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.…”