The Nature and Future of Tourism: A Post-Covid-19 Context

This book focuses on the tourism industry in conjunction with the impact of COVID-19 from the perspective that it is both negatively impacting the industry while also offering an opportunity to rise from the ashes. The volume offers a new conceptualization and theorization of tourism, suggests new research methods, offers parallels with other crises (such as 9/11) to better understand the current one, and suggests futurist and innovative strategies. This book offers a wide range of topics on how a pandemic can impact customer satisfaction and the tourism industry.

Maximiliano E. Korstanje, PhD, is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Safety and Security in Tourism (Universidad de Palermo, Argentina) and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism (IGI-Global US). In addition, he is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Economics at University of Palermo, Argentina. In 2015 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK, and the University of La Habana, Cuba. Dr Korstanje has visited and given seminars at many universities worldwide and was also been selected to take part in the 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. He currently is the book series editor of Advances in Hospitality, Tourism and Service Sectors (IGI Global, US) and Tourism Security-Safety and Post Conflict Destinations (Emerald Group Publishing, UK).

Babu George, PhD, is Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Business, Christian Brothers University, a Lasallian Institution, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Previously, he served in a diverse range of academic-administrative roles at various universities, including Fort Hays State University, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Alaska Pacific University, University of Southern Mississippi, among others. In addition, he holds visiting professor designations at more than fifteen universities around the world. Since 2001, he has taught a variety of undergraduate-, graduate-, and doctoral-level courses in management, marketing, entrepreneurship, tourism, healthcare, international business, higher education leadership, etc. He has published more than 200 research papers in international scholarly journals. Dr. George has a PhD in Management, a DBA in International Business, and an EdS in Higher Education Innovation and Leadership. He is a graduate of Harvard University’s Institute for Educational Management.