Abstract
PurposeThis paper aims to review conceptual and empirical studies that analyse the impact of the pandemic on mobility and tourism behaviour at destinations in order to identify proposals, forecasts and recommendations to guide the future research agenda on the subject.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a systematic literature review to synthesise information from scientific articles published in journals indexed in the Web of Science database related to tourism mobility at destinations during the COVID-19 pandemic.FindingsThis article found that, according to the existing literature, the COVID-19 pandemic is acting as a catalyst for the sustainable transition of tourism. Although the findings reveal a lack of empirical research on the impact of the pandemic on tourism mobility at destinations, the article synthesizes the short- and long-term impacts of the pandemic and sets out the future research agenda on tourist mobility at destinations.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first systematic review of the impact of the pandemic on mobility and tourism behaviour at destinations that attempts to describe the emerging challenges and the agenda for future research.
Highlights
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic brought both international and national mobilities to the ground level, with a prominent impact on the travel and tourism sectors caused by mobility restrictions
The literature review emanates several concepts related to the impact of COVID-19 on tourist mobilities at destinations discussed
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a historical impact on global human mobility, it has been especially intense in the case of tourism-related mobility
Summary
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic brought both international and national mobilities to the ground level, with a prominent impact on the travel and tourism sectors caused by mobility restrictions. The increase in literature related to the impact of the pandemic on mobility and tourism has been noticeable in recent months. The pandemic has come in a context where there is some consensus on the need to reformulate tourism towards a more socially and environmentally sustainable model (Ioannides and Gyimothy, 2020). It is, a moment of opportunity to reduce the ecological footprint of global hypermobility. At the time of writing this article, the pandemic is still on the rise, so it is necessary review the existing literature on COVID-19 and tourist mobility at destinations to debate a subject that is highly marked by uncertainty
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