Reconnecting tourism after COVID-19: the paradox of alterity in tourism areas. Issue 3 (26th May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lapointe, Dominic
• Is Part Of: Tourism geographies. Volume 22:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 633
• Page End: 638
• Publication Date: 2020-05-26
• Subjects: Alterity -- enclave -- territories -- Canada -- COVID-19; 相异性 -- 飞地 -- 领土 -- 加拿大 -- 新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）; Travel -- Periodicals; Ecotourism -- Periodicals; 910
• DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1762115
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-6688

Abstract

Abstract: One of the transformations induced by the almost complete halt of tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a turning of the tourism sectors to a greater orientation towards their host communities. The enclavic tendencies of tourism areas, along with a multilayered approach to alterity gives insight into ongoing changes in the Quebec, Canada, tourism industry that have been enhanced by the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes points to a relinking of tourism to the needs of the host communities as part of a survival strategy in a time when there are no tourists, and could become, in the long run, a resilience strategy. On the other hand, there is a possibility of a reinforcement of the alterity and a further delinking of tourism in a "6 foot-tourism world" where sanitary safety would be at the core of a closed and controlled tourism development.