No. 40 (2021): Special Issue - COVID-19 - Challenges, Opportunities and Adaptations

Artigos

• Public planning and crisis management in the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazilian tourist destinations: Sustainable actions or economic reactions?

  Elias José Mediotte (Author)

• In Portugal, especially since the past decade, the national strategies for tourism have reflected concern with the development of the activity based on sustainability principles. This concern has become the goal of the current Tourism Strategy 2027 and has been enhanced by the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, which brought great difficulties to the tourism sector. The sector's recovery is being seen as an opportunity to plan activities based on the principles of sustainable development. Thus, this article intends to analyse the presence of sustainability as a development philosophy in national tourism strategies and to analyse the effect of the pandemic on the current strategy. The analysis showed that the main effect of the pandemic on the national strategy was to accelerate the implementation of sustainable practices. The publication of the Tourism Plan +Sustainability 20-23 shows that it is the first phase of the challenge of making Portugal a sustainable tourist destination.

  Sandra Bailoa (Author)

• Community-based tourism during pandemics: Experiences of communities in Brazil and Africa

  Eduardo de Ávila Coelho (Author)

• The impact of Covid-19 on tourism experiences supply in rural tourism: An exploratory study

  Ana Isabel Rodrigues (Author)

• The adoption of the “Clean & Safe” stamp in Covid-19 times: An opportunity for innovation and reinvention for the tourism entertainment sector in Portugal?

  Inês Dionísio (Author)