COVID-19, Tourism and Knowledge Production

Abstract

This paper presents a general review of the available COVID-19 literature with a brief overview of crisis and disaster management. The study tries to explore the knowledge about various spheres of tourism and the society brought by COVID-19 pandemic through literature contributed by academicians. The exploratory and descriptive nature of the study is carried out based on secondary sources. The study has focused mainly on areas like virus and virocene, anthropocene, lovecene, tourism and health crisis, health belief model, tourist health and safety, crisis and risk, the four horsemen of fear, panic buying behavior, crowding perceptions and mass gathering, social distance, shock, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, protection motivation theory, anthropause and anthropulse, Herzberg’s two factor theory, microadventure, resilience, and major pandemics and pathogen outbreaks. The study has raised questions like what kind of knowledge could be acquired from the literature of COVID-19 and tourism?