BRICS+: Sustainable Development of Air Transport and Tourism

Dear Colleagues,

Air transport and tourism are among the major concerns of emerging economies. Since the end of World War II, civil aviation has had an increasing participation in the development of nations and passenger aircraft, air traffic control, and airports have experienced a tremendous evolution to become very efficient in enabling people to move from one corner of the world to another swiftly and safely. By overcoming geographical barriers and providing accessibility everywhere at affordable travel times and prices, air transport is a boon to the tourism industry, generating a symbiotic effect in which tourism also comes to boost the air transport industry. Such is the importance of these two sectors that several international and national institutions have been created at different levels to outline policies and regulations. Several scientific journals exist that address the question of air transport and tourism. Yet, despite the volumes of research covering these two important sectors, existing studies focus more on the countries of the Global North, which have benefited from the development of these two industries greatly. However, whether directly or indirectly, this has resulted in an unbalanced Global North vs. Global South development.

This Special Issue of Sustainability seeks to contribute to filling the gap in the literature on the development of these two industries in the BRICS+ countries emerging into of a multipolar global context.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome and research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• BRICS+ sustainable air transport and tourism;
• Sustainable inbound and outbound tourism in emerging countries;
• Economic causality between air transport and tourism in emerging countries;
• Air transport and tourism market forecasts in emerging countries;
• Bottlenecks for air transport and tourism in emerging countries;
• Digital media, tourism, and air transport in emerging countries;
• Middle class growth—a new market for tourism, and air transport in emerging countries;
• BRICS+ sustainable tourism and air transport case studies;
• Competition between the tourism and air transport of emerging countries and traditional Global North tourist destinations;
• How people choose tourist destinations in emerging countries;
• Direct connectivity between air transport and tourism in BRICS+ countries;
• Air transport and tourism infrastructure in emerging countries.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Fernandes Elton
Prof. Dr. Fulufhelo Netswera
Guest Editors

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• air transport
• BRICS+ and Global South
• case study
• Global North tourism
• emerging countries
• economic causality between air transport and tourism
• inbound and outbound tourism
• geopolitical bottlenecks
• middle class growth
• tourism market forecast