Raoul V Bianchi

Raoul V Bianchi

Raoul V Bianchi

Raoul V Bian­chi is Read­er in Polit­ic­al Eco­nomy in the Depart­ment of Eco­nom­ics, Policy, and Inter­na­tion­al Busi­ness at the Future Eco­nom­ies Research Centre of Manchester Met­ro­pol­it­an Uni­ver­sity, UK.

Dr Bianch­i’s work is focused on the inter­na­tion­al polit­ic­al eco­nomy of tour­ism, and research into emer­ging dynam­ics of tour­ism and (post-)capitalist devel­op­ment, with an emphas­is on south­ern Europe and the Medi­ter­ranean. His work also encom­passes tour­ism in the con­text of polit­ics and inter­na­tion­al rela­tions; bor­der polit­ics; des­tin­a­tion gov­ernance; and socio-envir­on­ment­al justice.

Tourism, capitalism, & the coronavirus crisis: What is to be (un)done?

September 7, 2021
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Coronavirus crisis. Image by geralt (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/coronavirus-virus-pandemic-crisis-6557675/

Does the travel & tour­ism indus­tri­al crisis induced by gov­ern­ment responses to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic war­rant a “full-spec­trum inter­ven­tion” to ‘demo­crat­ise’ tour­ism for a ‘post-cap­it­al­ist’ future?  Raoul V Bian­chi thinks so. It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [Thanks to Jim Butcher for invit­ing Dr Bian­chi to write a “GT” Insight.] The glob­al COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has triggered an unpre­ced­en­ted crisis. […]

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