Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes: Volume 12 Issue 6

Editorial

Has tourism the resources and answers to a more inclusive society?

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the various papers in this issue and explain the pertinence of the strategic question.

Can a multi-cultural industry such as tourism be inclusive?

This paper aims to look at the question of inclusivity and argue that the term reflects a majority culture “including” a minority culture – whether it desires to be included or…

Tourism – resilient but vulnerable as “the times they are a changing” in the “new normality”

The purpose of this paper is to present a viewpoint about the short- and long-term future of tourism in the light of the effects of the response to Covid-19 and the implications…

Covid-19 “tourism in flight mode”: a lost opportunity to rethink tourism – towards a more sustainable and inclusive society

This paper aims to report on a post-confinement reflection (not post-COVID-19) resulting from a series of online forums that took place during the peak moments of the pandemic…

The contribution of tourism towards a more sustainable and inclusive society: key guiding principles in times of crisis

At a time when tourism is embarking on the path to recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, this paper aims to put forward a set of principles guiding the development of tourism to…

Covid-19 crisis: a new model of tourism governance for a new time

The COVID-19 crisis has had a dramatic impact on the tourism industry, with new challenges that calls for a combination of short- and medium-/long-term perspectives. At the…

Promotion of inclusive tourism by national destination management organizations

Inclusive tourism has the potential to counter balance some of the disadvantages relating to tourism development and effectively exert positive impacts on society at large and…

Inclusive tourism: a priority for Portugal

This paper aims to outline how inclusive tourism promotes competitiveness by making the destination more accessible and so able to receive any tourist.

Accessible and inclusive tourism: why it is so important for destination branding?

By embracing the entire community of travellers, despite their capacity, tourism destinations that have the opportunity to appeal to the art of inclusive tourism policies in the…

Lesson learned from the pandemic: the need for sustainable employment

The purpose of this paper is to provide a definition of sustainable employment (SE), the conditions that undermine SE, the need for SE and how the additional costs of SE can be…

Tourism as a lever for a more inclusive society

Tourism is an industry with an enormous capacity for galvanizing local economies and for offering economic and social opportunities to broad sectors of the population. But it is…

Airlift and tourism development: two sides of the same coin

This viewpoint paper provides insights and actions as to how destinations and airports need to be aligned in post-COVID-19 resumption. This paper aims to inform those working in…

Creative tourism – providing the answers to a more inclusive society

This paper aims to provide an overview of the short-term impact of COVID19 on the new tourism paradigm worldwide, as well imagining how it could influence society’s inclusion. The…

The contribution of tourism to the renegeration of cities: a route for change

This paper identifies and discusses the best possible solutions for regenerating cities, with the aim of creating inclusive, pleasant and sustainable cities and more developed and…

Augmented reality for relaunching tourism post-COVID-19: socially distant, virtually connected

This paper aims to understand the various facets of augmented reality (AR) and to explore its prospects for supporting the relaunch of the tourism sector post-COVID-19 in…

The FC Porto Museum project and the challenges of a new reality

This paper aims to explain how FC Porto positioned its museum and stadium as touristic and cultural attractions of reference in Porto. The current international situation demands…

Portuguese tourism strategy (ET27) – now more than ever

This study aims to analyse the importance of public and private policies to inclusive, sustainable, cohesive and accessible tourism in Portugal and also to assert tourism activity…

Tourism – ten possible solutions for a more inclusive society

The purpose of this paper is to critically review the contributions made by the writing team for this theme issue and to present the main ideas, lines of action and implications…