Covid-19 and the future of tourism
The tourism, the economy, and many activities of our society have experienced periods of development and stagnation throughout history, which we could characterize as true cycles in their evolution. When conducting a historical analysis of the evolution of tourism, specific aspects and factors can be identified that explain the stagnation…
What role does tourism play following the confinement and climate change?
Although we currently seem to be facing a prosperous scenario for tourism in Peru after the hardest effects of the pandemic, with a high percentage of the population vaccinated and an upward trend worldwide, we are still dealing with an unstable situation reinforced by news and information from various channels…
The pandemic and its cost on the emotional health and productivity of staff in the hotel sector
The hotel industry and tourism have faced challenging days since March 2020, when the WHO officially announced the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has presented challenges and highlighted the sector’s resilience and adaptability. Today, we can say that we have learned some lessons, but the situation remains changing and…
Tourism Reactivation: An Unavoidable Challenge
Tourism, before the pandemic, was Peru’s third economic force, after mining and agro-export. This activity represented 4% of the country’s GDP, with revenues of almost $5.2 billion and, most importantly, generated more than 1.3 million direct and indirect jobs. All the success story was lost during the health crisis. We…
Practitioners of Tourism: A Bet for the Sector’s Reactivation
“`html Since the beginning of the lockdown in early 2020, we have experienced countless situations in various aspects of our lives. Some of the lessons learned during this time lead us to reflect on how quickly we have adopted different scenarios, moving from complicated to ‘everything is possible’. At the…
Management for Sustainable Tourism Development: The Pending Task
In our previous column, we shared the idea expressed by numerous academics and other observers of the international reality, that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic would allow us, as few times in the recent history of world tourism, to face the crisis as an opportunity. The progressive recovery of…
Challenges of Economic Reactivation in Tourist Destinations
The objective of these lines is to generate a proposal to join efforts in the economic reactivation of tourism, this through a comparative study of the organizations related to providing services to tourism and complementary to have diagnoses that allow decision-making for the benefit of tourist destinations. An exercise that…
Perspectives of tourism in the context of a global socio-environmental crisis
La crisis sanitaria de COVID-19 ha llevado países a implementar medidas que han afectado profundamente las movilidades mundiales. Estudios realizados en el extremo sur de Chile buscan evaluar los impactos de las crisis socioambientales, sanitaria y climática y las perspectivas para la reactivación del turismo. Evaluando tendencias internacionales y entrevistando a actores locales se observa que la región de Aysén podría verse beneficiada con la evolución de los intereses de viajeros para un destino de naturaleza alejado de grandes centros urbanos. Sin embargo la reactivación del turismo se enfrenta a un escenario social y ambiental complejo que obliga a pensar en modelos alternativos adaptados a un escenario de mayor incertidumbre y de la necesaria protección de la naturaleza.
Between globalization and globalism
The world, since the pandemic restricted mobility from the beginning of 2020, has led to the frequent exposure of the terms globalization and globalism, often misunderstood, but impacting all productive sectors of humanity. Tourism was no exception, especially when it is limited to territories that, under the guise of autonomy,…