Post-COVID-19-Pandemic Climate Change and Sustainable Tourism Management

Dear Colleagues,

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is growing concern about future sustainability across society. With the tourism industry expected to breach and surpass pre-COVID-19 activity levels, there are growing calls for tourism degrowth to ensure sustainability. The past decade has highlighted the vulnerabilities of tourism to multiple threats, ranging from pandemics to global geopolitical turmoil, energy insecurity, and climate-change-induced extreme weather events, among others. This has opened up a wide array of debates among academia and society, with tourism and aviation through ICAO being brought to the centre of the climate change debate and actively discussed at IPCC and COP events. Given the dual nexus between tourism and climate change, there have been growing calls for the tourism, hospitality, conferencing, and transport and aviation tourism industries to participate in the transition to actively ensure sustainability in tourism. Tourism climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience are central to ensuring that the sector continues to contribute to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To this end, various frameworks have been adopted to ensure that the sector remains on track to contribute to global goals, with a strong leaning towards the contentious Environmental Sustainability and Governance (ESG). Post the pandemic, ethical business practices constitute a moral imperative and make business sense. This Special Issue explores the nexus between climate change and sustainability post the COVID-19 pandemic era. To this end, we would like to invite empirical and theoretical articles to be submitted for this Special Issue call under the following suggested thematic areas:

• Post-pandemic sustainable tourism: analyzing the shifts in travel behavior and preferences;
• Climate action for post-pandemic tourism: case studies of successful mitigation strategies;
• Resilient tourism: post-COVID-19 buildings with adaptive capacities for extreme weather events;
• Tourism’s carbon footprint: innovative approaches toward its reduction;
• Ethical business practices in tourism: a pathway to post-COVID-19 sustainability;
• Green tourism: the integration of renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure;
• Sustainable tourism policy: lessons learned from the pandemic and climate crises;
• Community-based tourism: empowering localities in post-COVID-19-pandemic sustainable development;
• Sustainable tourism certification: impacts on post-COVID-19 market competitiveness and environmental preservation;
• Technology and sustainable tourism: digital tools for minimizing impact and enhancing visitor experience after the COVID-19 pandemic;
• Post-pandemic eco-tourism and biodiversity: strategies for conservation and visitor engagement;
• Tourism and the SDGs/ESGs: aligning with global sustainability goals after COVID-19;
• Stakeholder engagement: collaborative approaches to sustainable tourism after COVID-19;
• Post-pandemic climate change communication in tourism: educating tourists in sustainable practices.

Dr. Kaitano Dube
Guest Editor

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• sustainable tourism
• post-COVID-19-pandemic development
• climate change adaptation
• eco-tourism
• ESG in tourism and aviation tourism
• renewable energy in tourism
• sustainable development goals (SDGs)
• tourism certification
• tourism technology
• biodiversity conservation
• climate education in tourism