Domestic Tourism Impacts on Local Destinations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Canadian Case Study

Georges Tanguay; Juste Rajaonson

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Domestic Tourism Impacts on Local Destinations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Canadian Case Study

Georges Tanguay, Juste Rajaonson

Published in International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Management (Volume 6, Issue 2)

Received: 25 October 2022 Accepted: 8 November 2022 Published: 14 November 2022

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The constraints imposed on travel during the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g. closed borders, vaccination passport) have led to a drastic drop in international tourism in favor of domestic tourism. Given this context, we analyze domestic tourism impacts on local destinations during the COVID-19 pandemic based on facts reported in daily and local newspapers. To this aim, we use Canada as a case study, where 193 articles published on domestic tourism between March 2020 and September 2021 were identified. Through content analysis, 83 different impacts were identified, of which 72.3% were negative. These impacts were then classified according to the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable tourism. We show that 47% were economic impacts, and of these impacts, the majority were negative. Finally, we identify the impacts most frequently reported in the articles. The most frequently reported positive impacts in Canada include the growth in the number of visitors to outdoor destinations and the opportunity to offset the losses caused by the absence of international tourists, while the most frequently reported negative impacts include the pressure on government to increase aid to the tourism industry and the inability of local tourists to fully substitute for international tourists. These observations put public interventions that aim to promote domestic tourism into perspective by highlighting the related opportunities and risks.

Published in	International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Management (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijhtm.20220602.13
Page(s)	36-43
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tourism, Domestic Tourism, COVID-19, Pandemic, Canada

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Georges Tanguay

Department of Urban Studies and Tourism, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Juste Rajaonson

Department of Urban Studies and Tourism, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, Canada

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