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Reinventing Luxury Travel Imaginaries: Early Responses of Travel Influencers to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Erasmus University Rotterdam, NLD.ORCID-id: 0000-0001-7394-2646
2022 (engelsk)Inngår i: The Emerald Handbook of Luxury Management for Hospitality and Tourism / [ed] Anupama S. Kotur; Saurabh Kumar Dixit, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2022, s. 445-461Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
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This chapter assesses how luxury travel imaginaries were modified in the aftermath of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Drawing on long-term fieldwork among travel influencers, the chapter presents their response strategies to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on an analysis of evidence from participant observation in tourist sites, network visualisations, in-depth interviews and platform profiles, I trace the transformations luxury travel imaginaries have undergone since the beginning of 2020. Before this global crisis, travel influencers became new puissant players in the highly globalised tourism industry as they regularly received assignments from tourism boards and hotels. Although brand sponsorship was considered a substantial source of revenue for travel influencers, their collaborations in travel destinations and the monetisation of travel content on YouTube were further assets to secure a livelihood. The coronavirus outbreak, however, turned their life-worlds upside down. This ethnographic investigation identified three main responses of travel influencers to the current long-term crisis of tourism: (1) diversification of content creation and orientation towards other influencer genres, (2) support for local tourism organisations and online promotion of staycations and (3), finally, travel to tourist sites for circulating online content on safe travel standards. Digital platforms became a major arena where the future of tourism has been re-negotiated in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. The in-depth investigation suggests that travel influencers were in a position to create new powerful representations of luxury as safe travel since they acquired the skills to establish stable storyworlds for their travel experiences, which attracted the attention of large platform audiences.

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2022. s. 445-461
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Digital platforms, professionalisation, tourism imaginaries, transmedia storytelling, travel influencers, safe zones
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Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-94091ISBN: 978-1-83982-901-7 (tryckt)ISBN: 978-1-83982-900-0 (digital)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-94091DiVA, id: diva2:1748095
Tilgjengelig fra: 2023-04-01 Laget: 2023-04-01 Sist oppdatert: 2025-02-11bibliografisk kontrollert

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