The COVID-19 crisis, a strategic change for tourism? Analysis of international research

ABSTRACT

The global confinement linked to COVID-19 has been conducive to reflections and exchanges between researchers around the world, which this article summarizes. In the short term, the coronavirus crisis will have destructive effects on the tourism industry. However, researchers think and even hope that the crisis will radically transform mobility on a global scale and that tourism will become more responsible and more sustainable. The crisis will not revolutionize the tourism industry overnight, but it will induce operational and strategic changes at several levels.