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How Bali could build a better kind of tourism after the pandemic

COVID-19 has hit tourism-reliant destinations hard. The Indonesian island of Bali, for example, where 70% of the population depend on tourism, has seen extensive job and income losses since it closed its borders in April. The economic impact so far…

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Dr. Jaeyeon Choe published a Special Issue- “Geographies of religion and spirituality” in Tourism Geographies Journal!

Dr. Jaeyeon Choe at Bournemouth University, UK and Dr. Michael Di Giovine at West Chester University, US organised a panel session, ‘Geographies of religion and spirituality: pilgrimage beyond the ‘officially’ sacred’ at Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference in 2016 (https://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2016/09/04/geographies-of-religion-and-spirituality-at-royal-geographical-society-conference-london-2016/).…

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Can the tourism industrytry recover from the Covid-19 pandemic? Dr Jaeyeon Choe interviewed in Geographical, the Magazine of the Royal Geographical Society.

The sudden cessation of international tourism as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic has brought the world’s largest employer to a standstill, with widespread hardship following in its wake. Can the sector recover? See the following link for the full…

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