COVID-19, Tourist Destinations and Prospects for Recovery

Part1. Background and Introduction.- Chapter1. Tourism and COVID-19 in Zimbabwe and South Africa: Contextual perspectives.- Part2. Impacts of COVID-19 on tourist destinations in Zimbabwe and South Africa.- Chapter2. Impacts of COVID-19 on Hotels and Lodges Tourism Destination Areas in Bulawayo Province, Zimbabwe.- Chapter3. The impacts of covid-19 on the traditional African food and beverage expo at the Amagugu International Heritage Centre, Zimbabwe.- Chapter4. The impact of COVID-19 on the tourism sector in Harare and Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.- Chapter5. Impact of COVID-19 on Nature-Based Tourism electric energy emissions in South African National Parks.- Chapter6. The impact of COVID-19 on rural tourism enterprises in Zimbabwe and its future prospects.- Part3. Management of COVID-19 in Tourist destinations in Zimbabwe and South Africa.- Chapter7. Women's participation in community-based tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case of Sengwe community in Zimbabwe.- Chapter8. Towardsa management intervention framework for Mahenye ecotourism biophysical resources to cope and recover from COVID-19 pandemic shocks.- Chapter9. Locking in lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for tourism destinations: A case study of wildlife destinations.- Chapter10. Training - an adaptive strategy to revive tourism in South Africa post COVID-19.- Chapter11. Domestic leisure tourism: Lessons learnt from township business operators during the COVID-19 pandemic era.- Chapter12. Redefining the idea of equal distribution of the benefits of tourism in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic.- Part4. Tourism recovery and resilience in Zimbabwe and South Africa.- Chapter13. Examining the recovery and resilience of Cape Town as a tourist destination post COVID-19.- Chapter14. Inclusive, participatory approaches to tourism rebuilding and recovery of coastal tourism destinations from the impacts of COVID-19.- Chapter15. Incentive Travel Recovery: A systematic literature review.- Chapter16. Exploring

Kaitano Dube (PhD University of South Africa) is an Associate Professor of Tourism Geography at the Vaal University of Technology in South Africa. He is currently Faculty of Human Science Research, Innovation and Commercialization Professor (acting) and Ecotourism Management lecturer. He is a South African National Research Foundation Y2 Rated Researcher who has supervised a number of Masters students and hosted 2 Post-Doctoral Fellows. He is an Associate Editor for Cogent Social Sciences (tourism section) and Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism. He is an Editor for Tourism Geographies. His research interests have been in tourism, climate change, aviation and COVID-19. He has co-authored one book and edited five published books and published several book chapters and more than 30 journal articles in high-impact peer-reviewed journals within a short period. He advises several governments and local government institutions on tourism and tourism development within Africa. He is an honorary visiting professor at Chandigarh University, India and a visiting Professor at Emirates Aviation University in Dubai, UAE. Prof Dube is also a tourism curriculum expert who has worked with regional Councils of Higher Education in program evaluation, audits and accreditation.

Olga Laiza Kupika is a Natural Resources Conservationist and Climate Change expert, Associate Professor and currently Chairperson in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe. Olga is a task-oriented, result-focused conservationist with over a decade of experience in research, teaching and community service in the higher and tertiary education sectors. She has experience leading and working with multidisciplinary teams and can communicate with stakeholders and research partners at local, national, regional and international forums. Olga is a former EU-DREAM scholarship recipient, a Climate Impact Research Capacity and Leadership