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COVID-19 and the End of Hospitality
Maximiliano Emanuel KorstanjeBabu Georgesubject
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Hospitalitybusiness.industry0502 economics and business05 social sciences050211 marketingSociologyMarketingbusiness050212 sport leisure & tourismdescription
The turn of the century has brought many mega threats for the West, such as terrorism, natural disasters, and virus outbreaks including SARS, H1N1, Ebola, and now COVID-19. An invisible micro-organism suddenly paused our progress towards a globally interconnected flat world. We now realize that super-structures driving economic development cannot grow in specific directions without destroying themselves in certain other directions. The precautionary logic suggests the rational planning aided by our technological progress ought to alleviate most of these problems. The manner in which we deal with disasters like COVID-19, however, does not inspire confidence. Application of the precautionary logic did not avert a calamity, and recovery efforts are now guided by some crude forms of post-facto, post-cautionary logical thinking. Tourism as well as hospitality is now in crisis.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 |