TY - JOUR
T1 - COVID-19 Research in Hospitality and Tourism: Critical Analysis, Reflection, and Lessons Learned
AU - Wong, Antony King Fung
AU - Kim, Seongseop
AU - Liu, Yun Yao
AU - Grace Baah, Nancy
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Supported by Hainan Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Project (HNSK(YB)22-25) Supported by Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Chin (722QN289) Supported by the research fund of Chris Ryan’s Academician Workstation in Hainan Province.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected everyday life and business. To describe the impacts, 566 COVID-19-related articles were published between January 2020 and March 2022 in 18 hospitality and tourism journals. This study identifies the research streams, using content and bibliometric analyses. Content analysis and co-citation analysis revealed six research streams and four research clusters, respectively. A critical analysis was conducted to reflect the theoretical and practical implications and provide suggestions for future research directions. The identified research weaknesses include concerns relating to generalizability, sampling and measurement-related issues, online survey methods, failure to identify different stakeholders’ views on the adoption of new technologies, lack of practical coping scheme studies, lack of effort to adopt multidisciplinary theories, and little exploration of customers’ reactions to virtual events. Results of this study can help facilitate and consolidate the knowledge on the impacts of the pandemic and proactively prepare for future disease crises.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected everyday life and business. To describe the impacts, 566 COVID-19-related articles were published between January 2020 and March 2022 in 18 hospitality and tourism journals. This study identifies the research streams, using content and bibliometric analyses. Content analysis and co-citation analysis revealed six research streams and four research clusters, respectively. A critical analysis was conducted to reflect the theoretical and practical implications and provide suggestions for future research directions. The identified research weaknesses include concerns relating to generalizability, sampling and measurement-related issues, online survey methods, failure to identify different stakeholders’ views on the adoption of new technologies, lack of practical coping scheme studies, lack of effort to adopt multidisciplinary theories, and little exploration of customers’ reactions to virtual events. Results of this study can help facilitate and consolidate the knowledge on the impacts of the pandemic and proactively prepare for future disease crises.
KW - bibliometric analysis
KW - content analysis
KW - COVID-19
KW - crisis
KW - impacts
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U2 - 10.1177/10963480231156079
DO - 10.1177/10963480231156079
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85150644876
SN - 1096-3480
JO - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research
JF - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research
ER -