Heeringa, Yildiz (2021) The social impacts of the COVID-19 crisis and the resilience of the hospitality sector: Learning from the Dutch Wadden Islands. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the global tourism sector experienced several economic, health, and social well-being impacts. Local communities in tourism destinations experienced a severe decline of income, a risk of COVID-19 infection through tourists, and stress due to both the economic and health impacts. To be able to determine how a specific tourism destination can be helped to deal with these impacts and thus orient effective recovery interventions, investigating the negative social impacts on tourism destinations and local peoples’ associated needs, perception, and resilience is crucial. The aim of this research was therefore to investigate the social impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on people working in the hospitality sector in the Dutch Wadden Islands, whether community resilience emerged to deal with those, and what the perception of this local community about the recovery interventions is. In the Dutch Wadden Islands, the same social impacts were experienced that could be found in the literature. A strength of the islands appeared to be that they are used to earning a lot of income in the crowded summer months, to get through the quiet winter months. This was also the case during the COVID-19 crisis, during which the summer months were extremely crowded. People working in the local hospitality sector in the Wadden Islands showed to have resilience, enacting several individual and collective actions that enabled them to better cope with the negative social impacts of the crisis. However, current recovery interventions primarily focus on individual income and are in some cases discouraging the implementation of individual and collective actions. By creating recovery interventions that are more focused on the community as a whole, the community resilience can be enhanced which can contribute to a better community well-being.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Imperiale, A.J. |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2021 14:43 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jul 2021 14:43 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3522 |
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