One of the transformations induced by the almost complete halt of tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a turning of the tourism sectors to a greater orientation towards their host communities. The enclavic tendencies of tourism areas, along with a multilayered approach to alterity gives insight into ongoing changes in the Quebec, Canada, tourism industry that have been enhanced by the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes points to a relinking of tourism to the needs of the host communities as part of a survival strategy in a time when there are no tourists, and could become, in the long run, a resilience strategy. On the other hand, there is a possibility of a reinforcement of the alterity and a further delinking of tourism in a “6 foot-tourism world” where sanitary safety would be at the core of a closed and controlled tourism development.

(2020). Reflections and discussions: tourism matters in the new normal post COVID-19. Tourism Geographies. Ahead of Print.

The UNWTO’s discourse has focused on managing the effects of COVID-19 on tourism mobility since the outbreak was taken over by the WHO, as tourism is prominent amongst the hardest hit sectors. Emanating from the UNWTO as one of the dominant stakeholders in tourism discourse construction, an interesting component is the new meaning attributed to ‘responsible tourism’, which coincides with severe sanitary measures in this moment. Through critical discourse analysis and the theoretical framework offered by Iris Marion Young on responsibility for justice, this article will first demonstrate how the reappropriation of the term is in line with the UNWTO’s neoliberal perspective on tourism. The result is the promotion of sanitary measures for the protection of tourism as a consumer industry, rather than for the protection of the individuals involved. It is also cementing the pedestal on which the UN agency places the tourist-consumer, namely through the International Code for the Protection of Tourists project. This paper closes with thoughts on how the emerging dominant discourse on responsible tourism is internalized by tourism stakeholders as the new normal, which would gain in being explored through the lens of Foucault’s work on the concept of biopolitics and the neoliberal subject.

Les littoraux du fleuve St-Laurent sont au cœur de l’attractivité touristique du Québec, mais sont aussi des espaces qui seront fortement touchés par les changements climatiques. C’est donc à partir d’une approche basée sur une conceptualisation tripartite de l’espace que l’article analyse les représentations de l’espace à partir de deux discours étatiques que sont la stratégie de mise en valeur du Saint-Laurent touristique et la stratégie d’adaptation aux changements climatiques. Cette approche s’intéresse à la manière par laquelle les acteurs « problématisent » l’adaptation aux changements climatiques dans les deux stratégies à l’étude, de façon à mieux comprendre les convergences et les divergences d’intérêts, les alliances et les oppositions qui permettent d’éclairer les problèmes de mise en œuvre.

Tourisme et Covid-19 : arrêts sur image et réflexions. Un article de la revue Téoros (Le tourisme avant et après la COVID-19) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.