Pandemic Shifts
University of Granada
Belize Tourism in the Age of the "Post" Pandemic: Paradise Requiem Love Story 33 View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Kenneth Little
Evoking an impossible and tragic-comic topical world through three stories of tourist encounters, this paper evokes the threat to, and the wisdom of, lives lived on the thresholds of local community control in the fictional coastal village of covid-traumatised Wallaceville, Belize. I ask how an emergent world of tourist encounters mobilizes a riotous love and compassion that fills Wallaceville beach and street life with hope and pride, even if it is cut through by despair and the precarious circumstances of life lived in a “tourist state”. The pressures to remake Belize into a popular tropicalized pleasure world are deeply felt in Wallaceville. Much of everyday life there lingers at the unpredictable intersections of tourist-local relationships; between exotic pleasures and cultural predicaments, a wild sense of cultural and economic opportunities, inchoate futures, mixed with a growing feeling of haunting loss and unclear possibility, the felt impacts of late-liberal global worlds and national interests rubbing up against a sense of craziness that has become what the local and ordinary is said to feel like today. I am especially interested in lingering in local scenes that instantiate the way tourist encounters generate imaginative displays of such puzzling entanglements, especially now given the lingering chaos of the COVID pandemic. Thus, this experiment focuses on how stories of Wallaceville cruise ship tourism operate as forces of affective intensity that collectively act like a pinched nerve in the body politic, generating an aesthetics of "naansense" that works to morph the powerful forces of a tourist economy.
Featured Impacts of Climate Change Transformation Post-pandemic on Tourism in Spain: Andalusia Case Study View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Claudia Ribeiro Pereira Nunes, Pedro Diaz Peralta
After the Pandemic, the tourist economies are returning to outdoors and recreation. However, a natural enemy is here - climate disruption's impacts on our natural environment. The research is collecting new opportunities that may emerge from these ecosystem changes, cultural identities and economic and recreational opportunities based on your historical use and the interaction with species or natural resources in many areas at risk in Andalusia. The government wants to recover Post-pandemic tourism, and the researcher seeks to illustrate hypotheses for Public Administration to have an overview of its regulation. The research discussion is that climate disruption degrades outdoor recreation in many ways, directly affecting the tourism industry. The outcomes are 1. Proactive management strategies, such as using projected stream temperatures to set priorities for fish conservation, can help reduce disruptions to tourist economies and the recreation of Granada. 2. Without substantial and sustained mitigation and regional adaptation efforts, climate disruption is expected to cause losses to Andalusia's tourism infrastructure and property and impede the rate of economic growth over the XXI century. As a finding, the government can anticipate and lead to management responses that increase chances for the tourism sector and vulnerable regions after the Pandemic, or they will have an ecological crisis in the tourist industry, fewer profits, and reduced taxes collection. The industry assumes that Andalusian people's quality of life relies on the outdoor tourism benefits provided.
