Domestic Tourism and Hospitality Management Issues, Scope, and Challenges amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

1. Resiliency or Regression? A Case Study Analysis of the Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Tourism-Dependent Economies in the United States

Maryann Conrad and Erika Cornelius Smith

2. Recent Perceptions on Tourism Happiness Index Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Debasish Batabyal and Chanchal Dey

3. Tourist Perception on Quality Dimensions in the Hotel Industry in Tagore’s Shantiniketan

Somnath Chatterjee

4. Impact of the COVID-19 Health Crisis on Mass Tourism and Flight Shame Protest Movements

Jocelyne Napoli and Sébastien Dépasse

5. Indian Tourism Business amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Economic Outlook

Rajdeep Deb and Pankaj Kumar

6. Analysis Based on the Industry of the Hotel Sector in Mexico: Posadas Case

José G. Vargas-Hernández and Kurt Tonatiuh Winkler Benítez

7. Revisiting Alternative Tourism and Excursion Destination Market in India: An Assessment amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Debasish Batabyal, Dillip Kumar Das, and Rama Verma

8. A New World During COVID-19: Employability Skills in Tourism, Hospitality, and Events Organizations

Janice Scarinci, Josephine Pryce, and K. Thirumaran

9. Greener Recovery from Pandemic Effects: Development of a Sustainable and Resilient Destination Economy

Prasenjit Kumar Mandal and Premangshu Ckakrabarty

10. A Study of Consumer Awareness for Green Tourism in New Normal India.

Pratim Chatterjee and Shatrajit Goswami

11. Uttar Pradesh Tourism Policy 2018: How Effective and Efficient Can It Be?

Abhimanyu Awasthi and Akshay Nain

12. Pandemic 2020 and Its Effects on the Tourism Industry and the Livelihood of Households of the Sundarbans, India

Sankar Kumar Mukherjee

13. COVID-19 Outbreak and Its Impacts on Selling of Temple Foods: A Study Based on Lord Ananta Basudev Temple, Bhubneswar, Odisha

Susanta Ranjan Chaini

14. Evaluating the Role of Government for Promoting Buddhist Tourism after the COVID-19 Pandemic with Special Reference to the State of Bihar, India

Tripti Kumari

Biography

Debasish Batabyal, PhD, has been teaching travel and tourism management at the Department of Travel and Tourism, Amity University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. A postgraduate in Business Management with a specialization in tourism from the University of Burdwan, Dr. Batabyal received his doctorate degree from the same university. His areas of research interest include e-tourism, sustainable tourism and social solidarity economy, and destination development and planning. He has written two books and edited two more with reputed international publishing houses. He has published a number of research articles in internationally reputed journals of social science, including the Indian Journal of Marketing, South Asian Journal of Tourism and Heritage, IJARBEST, Journal of Emerging Technologies and Research, and also in various edited volumes. He has also co-authored a chapter in the District Human Development Report (UNDP and Govt. of West Bengal) and District Gazetteer Report (Govt. of West Bengal). Recently, he was awarded ILO’s South-South Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) scholarship to participate at the 11th Social and Solidarity Economy Academy in Madrid, Spain.

Dillip Kumar Das, PhD, is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Tourism Management, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India. He has been associated with this university since 2005. He has also served as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Department of Tourism Management Sikkim Central University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India. The author has 20 years of teaching experience in business programs and more than 13 years of research experience. So far, six PhD scholars and one MPhil scholar have been awarded degrees under his supervision and guidance. Dr. Das has contributed over 48 research papers in reputed national and international refereed, peer-reviewed journals and proceedings and has edited three research handbooks from Springer, IGI-Global USA, and Apple Academic Press. Dr. Das has also published a textbook on tourism management with Sage Publications. He is a reviewer for several refereed journals of international repute. His areas of research interest include eco-tourism, tourism impact studies, travel agency management, and international airfare and ticketing.

“Explore[s] the impact of the pandemic on the tourism and hospitality sector.  . . . Well-documented studies on topics such as tourism-dependent economies in the United States, the hotel industry in Mexico, innovations in employability skills required in tourism and hospitality industry in Australia and Singapore, and ties between mass tourism and flying shame with French air transport during the pandemic. . . .  This collection of comprehensive and substantiated research chapters provides an overview of the tourism challenges faced and the strategies employed to overcome those challenges locally and internationally while minimizing the economic shocks caused by the pandemic. Insightful and engrossing. A wonderful read.”

Somnath Chaudhuri, Researcher, Research Group on Statistics, Econometrics and Health (GRECS), University of Girona, Spain