Abstract
Geographical marginality in general and also in terms of its relationship with tourism and sustainability is a relatively new conceptual framework for research. Tourism is a complex phenomenon, which, among other things, leads to both the development of tourist destinations and to specific problems of overtourism. Tourist flows have an uneven distribution on the planet: some tourist destinations are so popular that they bear the consequences of overtourism, while other tourist destinations are marginal and marginalised in the architecture of world tourism, sometimes despite their tourist potential. Tourism is seen as an opportunity to promote development by all countries, but the COVID-19 pandemic has upset the tourism-based competitiveness of countries. This paper will classify the countries of the world as main or marginal tourist destinations according to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) data available until 2019, and analyse how the pandemic has contributed to accentuating the marginalisation of some countries and tourist destinations in 2020. The pandemic has increased the development gaps associated with the tourism sector in the countries of the world, including the capacity to build a post-pandemic tourism recovery strategy, causing further marginalisation.
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Camară, G. (2022). The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Enhanced Marginalisation of Marginal Tourist Destinations. In: Fuerst-Bjeliš, B., Nel, E., Pelc, S. (eds) COVID-19 and Marginalisation of People and Places. Perspectives on Geographical Marginality, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11139-6_9
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