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Jarkko Saarinen,
University of Oulu, Finland
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C. Michael Hall,
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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Siamak Seyfi,
University of Oulu, Finland
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Aim and scope of the special issue
An increase in the number of disasters and crises affecting the tourism industry globally has highlighted the significance of resilience building in the tourism industry. While tourism has been one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy in recent decades, it has been one of the sectors worst impacted during the COVID-19 crisis, for example. Furthermore, looming climate change and geopolitical shifts will have serious impacts on global and regional tourism patterns. While crisis management has been the major focus of research in tourism, the profound decline of tourism due to travel restrictions to combat the COVID-19 outbreak has brought forth and questioned the relationship between crisis and disaster management, and resilience. While the two concepts are inherently linked, extant research emphasizes the latter over the former.
Nordic tourism destinations have experienced significant changes over the last decades, which highlight the implementing adaptation strategies. Nevertheless, a relatively few studies have focused on the resilience of Nordic tourism destinations and businesses within Nordic tourism scholarship. In addition to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the region’s tourism industry is sensitive to the impacts of climate change, which will challenge both summer (e.g. algae blooming and sea-level rise) and winter tourism destinations (e.g. snow conditions and shifting seasonality). Therefore, in response to the growing significance of the resilience of tourism destinations, this special issue aims to offer a thorough exploration of resilience and help map out the current state of knowledge on resilience research within Nordic tourism scholarship. One potential element creating and maintaining resilience in a local scale relates to inclusive development models that highlight sustainable, collaborative and participatory approaches in tourism planning and development. In this respect, the key issues are focusing on those elements and conditions that would make tourism development more socio-economically and culturally inclusive and sustainable by creating opportunities for all and, thus, better resilience towards coming changes and shocks.
This special issue welcomes theoretical, empirical, experimental, and case study research contributions from a wide range of disciplinary and post-disciplinary perspectives. These contributions should clearly address the theoretical and practical implications of the research. The proposed topics may include but are not limited to the following:
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Choose open accessSubmission guidelines
Expressions of interest in contributing a paper to this special issue are invited in the form of an extended abstract (750-1000 words excluding references), by 1st October 2022, to be submitted by e-mail to Guest Editors. Abstracts should include the title, authorship, author affiliation(s) and contact information (including the email addresses of all authors) and keywords (maximum six).
Anticipated special issue publication: Early 2024
Review process
Each paper submitted for publication consideration is subjected to the standard review process of Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. Based on the recommendations of the reviewers, the Editor-in-chief along with the guest editors, decisions will be made whether particular submissions will be accepted, revised or rejected.
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