How does COVID-19 differ from previous crises? A comparative study of health-related crisis research in the tourism and hospitality context

Eunhye Park; Woo-Hyuk Kim; Sung-Bum Kim

doi:10.1016/j.ijhm.2022.103199

How does COVID-19 differ from previous crises? A comparative study of health-related crisis research in the tourism and hospitality context

Int J Hosp Manag. 2022 May:103:103199. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2022.103199. Epub 2022 Mar 7.

Authors

Eunhye Park¹, Woo-Hyuk Kim², Sung-Bum Kim³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Food Nutrition, Gachon University, Seongnam-si, South Korea.
² IoT and Big Data Research Center, Department of Consumer Science, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea.
³ Department of Business Administration, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea.

Abstract

The importance of the risk to tourism and hospitality operations from pandemic-related crises has increased. Therefore, the current study offers a literature review targeting tourism and hospitality stakeholders' perceptions of past diseases and has three objectives: (1) Explore major topics from previous research on infectious diseases using topic modeling; (2) compare non-COVID-19 and COVID-19 crises; (3) investigate research topics in the tourism and hospitality industries. To meet our research objectives, we reviewed published pandemic-related articles in the tourism and hospitality literature since the year 2000. Based on the results, we first identified nine key topics related to infectious diseases (i.e., policy, human resources, branding, resilience, technology, global or community change, risk perception, disease impact, and lifestyle). Second, we suggest the application of different topic weights in non-COVID-19 and COVID-19 research. Third, we found that it is appropriate to apply different topic weights in tourism and hospitality research.

Keywords: COVID-19; Disease; Pandemic; Structural topic modeling; Systematic review; Tourism and hospitality.