Guest-host tensions in a fractured world

Maximiliano E. Korstanje; Sharad Kumar Kulshreshtha

doi:10.5281/zenodo.14577728

Authors

Maximiliano E. Korstanje University of Palermo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5149-1669
Sharad Kumar Kulshreshtha North-Eastern Hill University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7324-8013

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14577728

Keywords:

Tourism, Hospitality Crisis, Tourist-phobia, The Other, COVID19 pandemic

Abstract

From its outset, the tourism industry has focused its attention on host-guest’s relationships. They were historically characterized by stage of indifference, conflict and harmony. In recent years, some new paradigms have surfaced to hold that tourism should harmonize –although not always happen- the host-guest tensions. After the pandemic, host-guest tensions have been revived while taking radicalized forms. The tourist-phobia, as well as the sentiment of hostility against strangers, is part of a new fractured world where the classic spirit of hospitality is in crisis. The present paper explores the ebbs and flows of the anti-tourist discourse in a post viral context.

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Author Biographies

Maximiliano E. Korstanje, University of Palermo

Ph. D in Social Sociology (2010). University of Palermo, Argentina. MA in Anthropology FLACSO, BA in Tourism Sociology University of Moron. Reader at Economic Faculty, University of Palermo, Argentina. Book Series editor of Advances in Hospitality, Tourism and Service Industries (IGI Global, US), and Tourism Security-Safety and Post Conflict Destinations (Emerald Publishing, UK).

Sharad Kumar Kulshreshtha, North-Eastern Hill University

Ph.D in Tourism Management/ITHM, Dr. BRAU, Agra, INDIA (2011).Master of Tourism Administration /A.M.U. Aligarh INDIA (2004). Master of Commerce / A.M.U. Aligarh INDIA (2001). Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.)/ A.M.U. Aligarh, INDIA (1999). Assistant Professor (Sr. Scale Garde)/Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong-Meghalaya (India). Member in Editorial Board of International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, Springer Publication. Member in Editorial Board of International Journal of Tourism Research, Wiley Publication. Advisory Book Series on Tourism Security Safety and Post Conflict Destinations, Emerald Publication. Book Editor of many books and Guest editor in Special Issue on “Tourism in times of COVID-19” Anais Brasileiros de Estudos Turísticos (ABET).

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