Ecological grief generates desire for environmental healing in tourism after COVID-19

doi:10.1080/14616688.2020.1759133

	Ecological grief generates desire for environmental healing in tourism after COVID-19
	Crossley, Emilie
	2020-04
发表期刊	TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES
ISSN	1461-6688
EISSN	1470-1340
摘要	Tourism research is starting to take interest in the psychology of environmental distress, particularly as it relates to climate change. For both the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and the climate change movement that dominated international media in 2019, psychological parallels exist in terms of our experience of loss. As the world grapples with the pandemic and tourism grinds to a halt, stories on social media are surfacing that claim wildlife is returning to quarantined cities and that the Earth is healing itself. Much of the implicit critique of these stories is directed at the tourism industry, with two viral posts in particular supposedly documenting the 'rewilding' of Venice, that infamous icon of overtourism. While the popular media have been concerned primarily with the factual accuracy of these claims, what has gone largely unexplored is the apparent desire for environmental reparation that they express. The fixation on environmental healing evidenced in tourist social media can be interpreted as a response to widely-felt 'ecological grief', triggered by the events of COVID-19. In this context, animal reclamation of urban spaces can be identified as a motif of environmental hope that symbolises life, regeneration and resilience, the understanding of which may contribute to the project of hopeful tourism in the post-COVID-19 era.
关键词	Hopeful tourism social media environment climate change pandemic wildlife grief
DOI	10.1080/14616688.2020.1759133
WOS关键词	CLIMATE-CHANGE ; HOPE
WOS研究方向	Social Sciences - Other Topics
WOS类目	Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
出版者	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
引用统计	被引频次：79[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
专题	新冠肺炎循证社会科学证据集成
作者单位	Otago Polytech
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Crossley, Emilie. Ecological grief generates desire for environmental healing in tourism after COVID-19[J]. TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES,2020.
APA	Crossley, Emilie.(2020).Ecological grief generates desire for environmental healing in tourism after COVID-19.TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES.
MLA	Crossley, Emilie."Ecological grief generates desire for environmental healing in tourism after COVID-19".TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES (2020).