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

doi:10.1080/14616688.2020.1762117

	Lessons from COVID-19 can prepare global tourism for the economic transformation needed to combat climate change
	Prideaux, Bruce; Thompson, Michelle; Pabel, Anja
	2020-05
发表期刊	TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES
ISSN	1461-6688
EISSN	1470-1340
摘要	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 carbon-neutral 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.
关键词	COVID-19 circular economy economic recovery climate change pandemic flattening the curve transformation geopolitics
DOI	10.1080/14616688.2020.1762117
WOS关键词	PREVENTION ; POLICY
WOS研究方向	Social Sciences - Other Topics
WOS类目	Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
出版者	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
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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	Cent Queensland Univ
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Prideaux, Bruce,Thompson, Michelle,Pabel, Anja. Lessons from COVID-19 can prepare global tourism for the economic transformation needed to combat climate change[J]. TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES,2020.
APA	Prideaux, Bruce,Thompson, Michelle,&Pabel, Anja.(2020).Lessons from COVID-19 can prepare global tourism for the economic transformation needed to combat climate change.TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES.
MLA	Prideaux, Bruce,et al."Lessons from COVID-19 can prepare global tourism for the economic transformation needed to combat climate change".TOURISM GEOGRAPHIES (2020).