URBAN TOURISM AND COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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SEE BELOW: A NETWORKED BOOK OF COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS CONQUERS THE TOP OF THE TOPS ON GOOGLE SEARCH
Andrade, P. ; Martins, M. (Eds.) (2022). Handbook of Research on Urban Tourism, Viral Society, and the Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic. Hershey. IGI Global.
What are the conditionings that COVID-19 pandemic prosecutes on the contemporary tourism condition?
Are we witnessing a new social virulent contact and/or a novel social health contract?
Are citizens becoming more controversial and/or more conversational?
Are populations being more solitary and/or more solidary?
In order to try to answer, even partially, to these or to other urgent questions evoked by such unprecedent virus risk and global crisis, a critical bibliography is presented in this book, including various aspects of the planetary encounter, clash and confrontation between two major processes of the 21st century: the tourism sector and the Corona virus.
Such state of the art includes works on the social fabric in general, but as well about economics, policies and politics, science, technology, culture, discourses and arts perspectives on this matter.
The period of time covers the pandemic spread since 2020 until 2022. The respective writings may be used as a panel for understanding the evolution of this phenomenon, step by step.
Sources are organized by year, where some main themes, discussed within specific spaces and times, may be easily identified.
The works presented are not exhaustive. This is just a brief sample of the numerous reflections and case studies produced and disseminated through the last three years. Other clues may be found in each of this book author chapters, both in their ‘References’ and ‘Additional Readings’ sections.
Inside such works, the social fabric doesn’t appear as uniform, but plural. In fact, it constitutes an arena where important entities and issues are daily tested, within specific social contexts such as touristic destinations.
These localities are activated by diverse social agents, the tourist but also the visited citizens, through concrete practices, e.g., travelling and other leisure activities, but also other related actions across various social realms.
Such deeds often present or represent core social structures, in this case mainly tourism and public health.
Or other broader structures, e.g., the travel and all its types and modes of circulating and participation in the social everyday, with or without the COVID-19 pandemic presence and in(flu)ence.
A NETWORKED BOOK OF COLLEAGUES AND FREIENDS CONQUERS THE TOP OF THE TOPS ON GOOGLE SEARCH
We are very grateful for the kind words that many authors have sent us, regarding the recent publication of our book Handbook of Research on Urban Tourism, Viral Society, and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, not only in the last collective email, but also in more personal messages. We must say that it was not so much the editors, but essentially the authors, who allowed the construction of this global network of talents.
Recently, these talents are being recognized globally. In searches I've done on Google, I've noticed that our book is rising in searches by Google users at global level.
In fact, in January 20, 2023, I made a simple search at Google about the worldwide searches in regard to the relation among ‘urban tourism’ and ‘covid’, via the AND searching logic. This means searching all the documents having, at the same time, all the concepts included inside a search sentence, e.g., in the sentence ‘urban tourism covid’.
Well, our book was then the only one to be cited 3 times in the top places within the Google’s first search page, that is, in a global 4th, 5th and 13th positions. Moreover, this book’s first mention (4th place), was very close to a much notorious planetary institutions, the World Wealth Organization (1st rang), and it was situated before UNESCO (unesdoc.unesco.doc, in 6th place), blog.westminster.ac.uk (7th rank), Oxford Economics (blog.oxfordeconomics.com, 8th ), etc. (see Annexe 1).
Two months later, within a Google search made on March 24:
- In the morning, our book was cited 5 times in the first two Google pages, and climbed to the FIRST PLACE WORLDWIDE inside the first Google search page. And it is also cited in 11th, 15th (wook bookshop), 18th (Bertrand bookshop) and 20th (at this present site Pedro Andrade’s site Viral & intercultural tourism city,
- In the afternoon, site Viral & intercultural tourism city climbed three positions (20th to 17th).
- In the evening, you may notice that various worldwide notable institutions were placed after the book Handbook of Research on Urban Tourism, Viral Society, according to the Google search engine.
For more details, consult the attached file: Annexe1_GoogleSearchOnUrbanTourismCovid_Trimester1_JanuaryFebruaryMarch_2023
Today, April 1st (and this is not a lie), I went again to see how our book was performing on Google. On the Google's first page alone, we went up, up to 11 mentions!!! It should be noted that these multiple citations also mean that the book is on sale in the largest bookstores in the world, and whose demand status by global readers can be checked on the first page of Google! In addition, my website Viral & intercultural tourism city maintains the 17th position in worldwide searches.
More details in the following file: Annexe2_GoogleSearchOnUrbanTourismCovid_Trimester2_April 1_2023
And an article I wrote in 2022 for one of the 3 journals of our research center, entitled: Andrade, P. (2022). Risk Tourism within Viral Society: A Study using Hybrid Discourse Analysis, Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies, 9, 1, 127–151, available at the University of Minho repository: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/78577 , also already climbed to the first page of Google (see last image on page 1, within Annexe2).