Digital Nomadism: the nexus of remote working and travel mobility
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Digital Nomadism: the nexus of remote working and travel mobility Inge Hermann1 · Cody Morris Paris2
© Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
1 Introduction As the world went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, people worldwide started to experience a ‘new normal.’ This ‘new normal’ has normalized remote-working and resulted in the mainstream adoption of technologies to support virtual collaboration, communication, and work from a distance. While the COVID19 pandemic resulted in the restriction of mobility as borders were closed, airlines grounded, and daily commutes limited, visions of a potential future of ‘remote-life’ started to take shape. As professionals (and employers) around the world start to realize that they are no longer physically secured to their desks, offices, or work stations, they may now start to consider a future where they are remote-working from ‘exotic’ locations, often with lower costs of living (Phuket, Bali, or Costa Rica?) instead of working from ‘home.’ Companies around the world have extended their remote-working policies, implemented due to COVID, through 2021 and beyond, and are starting to consider a broader shift towards remote (or hybrid) workforce models as a means for reducing overhead costs while supporting employee productivity and wellbeing. The impacts of the COVID pandemic have rippled throughout the tourism industry. Even as the industry starts a long road to recovery, there will likely be lasting impacts. Business travel has been disrupted and will likely evolve in its post-COVID form, particularly with the ‘remote’ alternative and likely increase in travel costs (at least in the short term). Companies dependent on business travelers (particularly in the accommodation sector) will need to evolve as well. With travel restrictions in place and regulations frequently changing for entry/exit procedures (quarantining, COVID testing, etc.), most destination countries face a long road to recover to * Inge Hermann [email protected] Cody Morris Paris [email protected] 1
ROC van Amsterdam-Flevoland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Middlesex University Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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pre-pandemic arrival numbers. Several countries, including Estonia, Georgia, Bermuda, and Barbados (Table 1), have recently introduced a new type of visa that allows longer-term visits for remote-workers. In other words, they are establishing “digital nomad” visas that provide residency (up to 1 year) to location-independent workers that allows them to work or run their business from the country regardless of the location or time zone of that business. The COVID-19 pandemic may have accelerated the digital nomad phenomenon’s normalization first predicted by Makimoto and Manners (1997) more than 20 years ago. This special issue brings together five papers focused on further deciphering the digital nomad phenomenon. While the call for papers for this special issue and much of the research included was co
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