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Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19?
COVID-19 effectively stopped tourism mobilities for a time. Theoretically, this qualitative study draws on the notion of responsibility, as in responsibility to act and responsibility to Otherness. We explore how, during the pandemic, Norwegian tourists dealt with infection preventive measures, how...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10158805/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14687976231169559 |
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author | Heimtun, Bente Viken, Arvid |
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description | COVID-19 effectively stopped tourism mobilities for a time. Theoretically, this qualitative study draws on the notion of responsibility, as in responsibility to act and responsibility to Otherness. We explore how, during the pandemic, Norwegian tourists dealt with infection preventive measures, how they changed travel habits and how the pandemic transformed their thinking on tourism and climate change. The tourists were loyal citizens adhering to the authorities’ measures and refrained from international holidays, thereby taking responsibility for the governmentally enforced dugnad (collective efforts). This temporal change in travel habits, however, was not expected to become the new normal, as warmer, southern destinations were still desired. Culturally embedded neoliberal values of freedom of movement were, for most of these tourists, stronger than the threat of climate crisis. Fatalistically, we conclude that COVID-19 did not have the power to transform their mind-sets regarding responsible tourism futures and free them from neoliberal shackles. |
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spelling | pubmed-101588052023-05-05 Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19? Heimtun, Bente Viken, Arvid Tour Stud Articles COVID-19 effectively stopped tourism mobilities for a time. Theoretically, this qualitative study draws on the notion of responsibility, as in responsibility to act and responsibility to Otherness. We explore how, during the pandemic, Norwegian tourists dealt with infection preventive measures, how they changed travel habits and how the pandemic transformed their thinking on tourism and climate change. The tourists were loyal citizens adhering to the authorities’ measures and refrained from international holidays, thereby taking responsibility for the governmentally enforced dugnad (collective efforts). This temporal change in travel habits, however, was not expected to become the new normal, as warmer, southern destinations were still desired. Culturally embedded neoliberal values of freedom of movement were, for most of these tourists, stronger than the threat of climate crisis. Fatalistically, we conclude that COVID-19 did not have the power to transform their mind-sets regarding responsible tourism futures and free them from neoliberal shackles. SAGE Publications 2023-05-02 2023-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10158805/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14687976231169559 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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title | Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19? |
title_full | Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19? |
title_fullStr | Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19? |
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title_short | Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19? |
title_sort | responsible tourists in the time of covid-19? |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10158805/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14687976231169559 |
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