This book employs epistemological, methodological and discursive approaches to explore the practices of tourism stakeholders in Covid-19 affected destinations and to understand and explain their everyday real-time doings and sayings. It discusses the changing practices of tourists and stakeholders at both micro and meso levels and provides a range of contexts and destination case studies offering insights into supply and demand. The issues examined in the volume will have continued implications for further study of the relationships between tourism, crises, pandemics and global travel. It will be a useful resource for researchers and students in tourism studies, geography, politics and policy, as well as sociology, history, crisis management and development studies.
Erdinç Çakmak is Senior Fellow at the Academy of Tourism, Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. His research interests are informal economies, tourism sociology, power relations in tourism and conflict-ridden destinations.
Rami K. Isaac is Senior Fellow at the Academy for Tourism, Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management at Bethlehem University, Palestine and has been working for 20 years in the field.
Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK and the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His most recent publications include the Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Indigenous Peoples (with Anna Carr, 2025) and The Tourism Area Life Cycle: Review, Relevance and Revision (Channel View Publications, 2024).