Post-pandemic studies in tourism and hospitality

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Since the spring of 2020, the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic has received academic attention from researchers across various disciplines, including tourism and hospitality. Overall, the initial focus of published studies concentrated on immediate and negative impacts of the outbreak of the pandemic on businesses and markets of tourism and hospitality. The main research concerns incorporated individuals’ risk perceptions (Zheng et al. 2020), civil liberty (Baum and Hai 2020), and crisis management of businesses (Romagosa 2020). The results of these studies were typically derived from sources of secondary data (World Tourism Organization 2020) or on the basis of behavior observed on online review platforms (Yu et al. 2021). These explorations contributed to the formation of critical arguments and profiles of the pandemic crisis for succeeding research. As the pandemic’s spread has been prolonged beyond our expectations, we are convinced that upcoming focuses should be proactive business measures that manage the pandemic’s impacts in the longer term, redefine business models, or reform industries for the post-pandemic era. …