In the Age of Pandemics: Some of the Reasons That Tourism Industries Fail: Part One of a Two-Part Series

Dr. Peter E. Tarlow | March 3, 2020

Part 2 will appear in April. By Dr. Peter Tarlow Much of the tourism literature is dedicated to tourism successes or how to succeed. When not focusing in on successes, the literature often deals with crisis management, such as the most recent outbreak of CoVid -19 (Coronavirus).  Rarely do we examine our self-inflict failures.  The fact is that many tourism and travel businesses, however, do not succeed.  The reasons for these failures may be of a personal nature, not enough passion or pure laziness, but the great majority of failures can be classified into sociological taxonomies. These categories help us to think abo...