Reflections on the state of ‘normality’ of tourism mass and its reflexes in the pandemic of COVID-19

Abstract

This article brings an analytical essay on how mass tourism has triggered a whole false perspective of mobility for human routines and how the scales of exploration in tourist places were rigidly impacted on the economic activity of tourism in search of "normality", since the pandemic of Covid-19 stalled and allowed dramatically cause deceleration in the world, considering the eagerness to return to the spaces used, so there was need from now on to rethink new ways in this scenario. To this end, it was necessary to understand the various impacts that tourism has shown us, and made us think about this present time involving the protocols developed, the studies on the impact of tourism by Covid-19, and to realize how deceleration, if possible, could be a strategy to make us reflect on the practices developed for the return of tourism in our lives. However, in the joint effort this study was only possible by relating our empirical, and so diverse research fields what proposed us to think about this movement that seeks from then on, the concern of false insecurity and verify through a brief historical context how the machine resurfaced and a restart in the configuration of its activities. Therefore, one wonders "what will become of tourism and how to configure it?" through the reflections that Covid-19 left in countless lives, in the economy and in every social context.