The COVID-19 pandemic led to the cessation of almost all international travel in the first half of 2020. A return to pre-pandemic growth patterns will take time and depend on the depth and extent of the recession sparked by COVID-19. The recovery phase will overlap with global efforts to deal with the evolving climate crisis. For the tourism industry to thrive in a future world it must look beyond the temptation of adopting strategies based on a return to the pre-COVID-19 normal of the past and instead seek to understand how it should respond to the emerging transformation of the global economy to carbon neutrality. Many of the lessons that emerged from the pandemic can be applied to strategies to deal with climate change. Of most interest is the success of strategies such as “flattening the curve”. Application of similar strategies plus adoption of the circular economy model to wind back Green House Gas emissions will help avert the global environmental disaster that will occur if global temperatures continue to increase. These strategies point to what a future carbon-neutral economic production system might look like, the path to which could offer the tourism industry numerous opportunities to transform from the current model that favours a high resource consumption model to one that is environmentally friendly and resource neutral.

Coral reefs provide important ecosystem services as well as economic and cultural benefits to society. Yet they are under significant threat from anthropogenic and natural threats, including climate change. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is one such reef undergoing significant change. More radical interventions that go beyond traditional forms of management are being considered to help repair and restore the GBR. These are based on science and technologies that have yet to be widely tested. This paper reports on a study that seeks to identify and understand support for such interventions, and to understand the antecedents that explain support. The Norm Activation Model (NAM) was extended with a sample of 468 domestic and international tourists to Cairns, Australia. Personal norms had the largest direct influence on support for interventions, followed by attitudes. Awareness of consequences had a large positive impact on personal norms and a smaller positive impact on attitudes. A negative relationship was found between information and attitudes. Personal norms and attitudes also acted as mediators between awareness of consequences, information and support. No differences were found between domestic and international tourists. The results are discussed and theoretical and practical implications outlined.

Developing a food and wine segmentation and classifying destinations on the basis of their food and wine sectors

Social tourism is used as a form of social policy for low income groups in many European countries. In China, large numbers of rural laborers migrate to urban areas in search of better job opportunities due to China's rapid development and urbanization policy. Meanwhile, millions of children have been left behind in rural areas, with a growing number of policies and research examining the physical and mental health problems of those left-behind children. The aim of this research is to empirically examine the function and impact of social tourism for improving the happiness and subjective well-being of Chinese rural left-behind children. Over one-and-a-half years, a series of observations, interviews and questionnaires were conducted with 683 participants (8–15 years old), which included 347 rural left-behind children, and 336 non-left-behind children in four schools of Henan province. From the 347 left-behind children, 60 children were randomly selected to participate in a one-year program of four social tourism activities. This empirical research suggests that social tourism could promote the subjective well-being of left-behind children and improve their happiness significantly with detailed measures. The findings show significant differences between life satisfaction (friendship satisfaction, family satisfaction, academic satisfaction, and environmental satisfaction) and positive and negative emotions of left-behind children and non-left-behind children. After joining in social tourism, the six factors of life satisfaction and the eight factors of the emotional well-being of those left-behind children who participated were also significantly improved.

This paper demonstrates how the landscape is an integral component in the development of tourism experiences in agricultural regions. It proposes that agricultural landscapes are composed of three components: naturescape, farmscape and culturescape. Building on the tourist gaze, this research demonstrates how tourists can move from viewing the landscape to engaging with it. A case study of the Atherton Tablelands, located in the Wet Tropics region of Australia, was conducted using content analysis and field observations. The results show that the development of activities within the culturescape enables tourists to engage with the agricultural landscape. This finding has important implications for the farmscape, where agricultural resources (produce) are often used in the creation of memorable tourism experiences in agricultural regions.