Assessing the COVID-19 pandemic impact on tourism arrivals: The role of innovation to reshape the future work for sustainable development

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jik.2023.100344
• Publication Date: 2023-02-09T16:12:27Z
• Authors: Najid Ahmad; Shuyun Li; Mouna Hdia; Jaroslav Bélas; Wan Mohd Hirwani ...
• Keywords: Pandemic; Sustainable Tourism; Distributed lag

The current COVID-19 pandemic has generated unprecedented disruption in the tourism sector, requiring innovative solutions to reshape future work for sustainability. Despite several benefits of and innovation, studies examining interlinkages among tourism, uncertainty, innovations sustainability are rare. To fill this gap, paper investigates impact on arrivals, effects arrivals impacts sustainable development France. further considers innovation influences uncertainty consider it key control pandemic. Autoregressive distributed lag results based 25 years historical data show that immediate discussion insignificant. However, long run, such become significantly negative, revealing a rise reduces We find discussions have positive significant interaction reveal tourists who aware contribute Significant evidence shows helps reduce uncertainty. innovation's short-term more prominent compared with long-term effects, indicating can be countered short run help solutions. Thus, relying especially related will pandemic's risk. Our were robust various econometric methodologies. drawn policy implications focus constant recovery.