Tourism Observatories for measuring the COVID-19 impact on tourism

Authors

Georgia Zouni Dr., University of PiraeusFollow
Stavros Hatzimarinakis, Hellenic Open UniversityFollow
Sotirios Varelas, University of PiraeusFollow

Abstract

Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) began at the end of 2019 and since then has led to a period of global transformations and changes for all aspects of the economy, tourism included. A fundamental action to mitigate the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 and accelerate recovery is the setup of local sustainable tourism observatories (UNWTO, 2020). This paper proposes a system theory-based framework for measuring the COVID-19 impact on tourism at regional and local level, using a mixed qualitative and quantitative methodology combined with the UNWTO and United Nations’s recommendations for COVID-19 Tourism Recovery.

Recommended Citation

Zouni, Georgia Dr.; Hatzimarinakis, Stavros; and Varelas, Sotirios (2022) "Tourism Observatories for measuring the COVID-19 impact on tourism," Journal of Sustainability and Resilience: Vol. 2 : Iss. 1 , Article 2.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jsr/vol2/iss1/2