Global Tourism Value Chains, Sustainable Development Goals and COVID-19
This chapter presents a conceptual framework and setting for the book. This is informed by the desire to link three critical thematic areas, namely, (i) the global tourism value chains, (ii) COVID-19 and (iii) the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (
- PDF / 531,566 Bytes
- 25 Pages / 439.37 x 666.142 pts Page_size
- 17 Downloads / 198 Views
Global Tourism Value Chains, Sustainable Development Goals and COVID-19
Abstract This chapter presents a conceptual framework and setting for the book. This is informed by the desire to link three critical thematic areas, namely, (i) the global tourism value chains, (ii) COVID-19 and (iii) the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD) and the 17 embedded sustainable development goals (SDGs). Bringing in the SDGs adds value given that there are three SDGs (SDGs 8, 12 and 14) that make specific reference to tourism. Furthermore, COVID-19 negatively impacted many SDGs leading to governments, civic and private organisations revising budgets to channel resources towards “flattening” both the COVID-19 and economic curves. Understanding the global tourism value chains assists in opening up the complex tourism space and to systematically document COVID-19 impacts along with the industries within the value chain nodes. To this end, this chapter comes across mainly as an essay with heavy dependence on value add from the document and critical discourse analysis, as well as a meta-analysis of secondary data sources. The chapter is useful from both a theoretical and practical application points of view. A section bringing the nexus of the thematic focus areas is slotted in towards the end, with a critique of how the tourism sector should address shortfalls in relation to the SDGs within the COVID-19 pandemic. Keywords Value chains · Tourism · COVID-19 · SDGs · Conceptual framework
2.1 Introduction The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the nexus of the global tourism value chains, SDGs and the COVID-19 pandemic. This is done in the interests of developing a (conceptual) framework in which the entire book is located. The concept of the value chains is not new, and its current popularity is traceable to Michael Porter’s 1985 book titled Competitive Advantage, which applied it to the firm level and related follow-up work (Porter 1985, 2001). This firm-level approach to value chains later evolved to wider applications, including the analysis of global value chains (Gereffi et al. 2001) and the creation of shared value by firms (Porter and Kramer 2018). The global value chain analysis comprises four key dimensions that include (1) the input–output structure, (2) geographic scope, (3) governance, and (4) © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 G. Nhamo et al., Counting the Cost of COVID-19 on the Global Tourism Industry, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56231-1_2
27
28
2 Global Tourism Value Chains, Sustainable Development Goals and COVID-19
institutional context. The governance types include market, modular, relational, captive and hierarchy, while the institutional context looks at how local, national and international policies and conditions shape globalisation across the value chain (Gereffi and Fernandez-Stark 2011). Yilmaz and Bititci (2006) present the existing opportunity to study the tourism industry as a value chain, arguing t
Data Loading...
