Silver linings around dark clouds: Tourism, Covid-19 and a return to traditional values, villages and the vanua

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dc.citation.issue2
dc.citation.volume63
dc.contributor.authorMovono A
dc.contributor.authorScheyvens R
dc.contributor.authorAuckram S
dc.coverage.spatialEngland
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-30T22:48:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-03T04:55:22Z
dc.date.available2022-03-30
dc.date.available2023-10-30T22:48:23Z
dc.date.available2023-11-03T04:55:22Z
dc.date.issued2022-08
dc.description.abstractThe global pandemic has adversely affected tourism globally, particularly in small island states heavily dependent on tourism. The closure of borders to regular flights for over a year in places such as Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands and Vanuatu, where this research was undertaken, has resulted in massive job losses. Many tourism employees have left the once-bustling tourist hubs, returning to villages and family settlements. Such clear urban to rural migration behaviours do not dominate movement patterns in the Pacific, but are an important and enduring strategy when shocks strike. In the case of the pandemic-induced migration to villages, former tourism workers have had to engage in a complicated process of adapting to the communal setting, employing new – as well as traditional – strategies to sustain a livelihood. Thus, this paper will discuss how the pandemic has influenced return migration patterns in the Pacific, and the implications of this shift. Findings suggest that, despite their financial struggles, people have adapted to life in their ancestral homes by rekindling their relationships with kin and increasing their engagement on their customary land. They have relearned about traditional Indigenous knowledge, diversified their skills and reconnected with their social and ecological systems. This spiritual homecoming observed in the Pacific ultimately shows that there can be silver linings to the dark clouds of the current disorder.
dc.format.pagination164-179
dc.identifier.author-urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35601079
dc.identifier.citationMovono A, Scheyvens R, Auckram S. (2022). Silver linings around dark clouds: Tourism, Covid-19 and a return to traditional values, villages and the vanua.. Asia Pac Viewp. 63. 2. (pp. 164-179).
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/apv.12340
dc.identifier.eissn1467-8373
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn1360-7456
dc.identifier.piiAPV12340
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69027
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherVictoria University of Wellington and John Wiley and Sons Australia Ltd.
dc.relation.isPartOfAsia Pac Viewp
dc.rights(c) 2022 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectPacific Islands
dc.subjectculture
dc.subjectpandemic
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjectreturn migration
dc.subjectvillage
dc.titleSilver linings around dark clouds: Tourism, Covid-19 and a return to traditional values, villages and the vanua
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id452808
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