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Tourist mobilities helped COVID-19 become a global pandemic. This commentary argues that mobilities perspectives are vital to understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on global tourism. It assists scholars and policy-makers in two ways: by demonstrating how tourism is implicated in political issues heightened by the pandemic, and by advancing research on low carbon tourist mobilities.

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coronavirus COVID-19 mobility politics pandemic tourism geography tourism mobilities

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Tourist as vector: Viral mobilities of COVID-19

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