Visions of travel and tourism after the global COVID-19 transformation of 2020

This special issue is a reflection by tourism scholars on the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world, with travel and tourism being among the most significant areas to bear those impacts However, instead of an analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism places and sectors, the papers in this issue focus on visions of how the pandemic events of 2020 are contributing to a possibly substantial, meaningful and positive transformation of the planet in general, and tourism specifically This is not a return to a 'normal' that existed before - but is instead a vision of how the world is changing, evolving, and transforming into something different from what it was before the 2020 global pandemic experience