Spatial Deconcentration of Tourism Concentrations: A Visitors’ Galaxy Impact Model of the COVID-19 Crisis

Jaewon Lim; Karima Kourtit; Peter Nijkamp; Christopher Stream

doi:10.3390/su14063239

Spatial Deconcentration of Tourism Concentrations: A Visitors’ Galaxy Impact Model of the COVID-19 Crisis

Jaewon Lim^*, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, Christopher Stream

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This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on mass tourism concentrations, such as Las Vegas. It argues that health risks and perceptions may induce a more deconcentrated pattern of mass tourism, with more geographical dispersion to rural and natural areas. The analytical framework is modeled and applied to extensive data on Las Vegas tourism. The proposition on deconcentrated tourism concentrations is confirmed. Pre-pandemic outer-inner city complementary relations between “Outdoor Activities” in 11 surrounding national parks and the “Gaming Industry” in Las Vegas have transformed into outer-inner city substitution relations in the COVID-19 pandemic. This represents the evolving deconcentration of tourism concentration facing the growing uncertainty in an inner-city due to health risks in a pandemic. Availability of diversified tourism resources may dampen the shock to a concentrated tourism destination such as Las Vegas when effectively linked to the decentralized but easily accessible tourism resources in dispersed rural and natural areas.

Original language	English
Article number	3239
Journal	Sustainability (Switzerland)
Volume	14
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063239
Publication status	Published - 10 Mar 2022

Keywords

Complementarity
COVID-19
Deconcentration
Galaxy model
Substitution
Tourism concentration

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Spatial Deconcentration of Tourism Concentrations: A Visitors’ Galaxy Impact Model of the COVID-19 Crisis

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