Covid-19 and the Host Community: Towards an Uncertain Future?

This chapter takes a close look at the resident community, which classify as ‘hosts’ in a tourism context as they are expected to host their ‘guest’counterparts. The author investigates the role of residents as hosts, their role during the Covid-19 pandemic and their likely role in the future concurrently. A case study conducted by Wassler and Talarico (2021) in the Italian city of Pisa is given as an example of the already evident impacts of the pandemic on resident attitudes towards tourists and tourism.