Special Issue: COVID-19 impacts on tourism: Southern Africa's experiences. (Special Issue: COVID-19 impacts on tourism: Southern Africa's experiences.)

ABSTRACT

This special issue brings together five articles that present an analysis of the state of tourism in Southern Africa due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and provide some insightful recommendations and ways forward in terms of navigating the pandemic's impacts. The articles cover the challenges of the ongoing pandemic in the Southern Africa region;the application of virtual reality technologies as a response to the pandemic;the economic impacts of the pandemic on guesthouses and nature-based tourism;and the management of community ecotourism to cope and recover from COVID-19 shock.