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The purpose of the paper is to review the existing landscape of consumption and production in wildlife tourism and, more precisely, discuss how tiger tourism is packaged and produced as a product or commodity for the consumption of wildlife tourists. In doing so, the study explores the issues and challenges for responsible consumption and production (SCP) of wildlife tourism in the context of progress toward sustainable development goal (SDG12) responsible consumption and production.

The paper combines an analysis of existing literature and insights from the tiger reserve stakeholders. Qualitative analysis using semi-structured interviews and participant observation methods are used to derive insights.

This paper explores the status of SCP of wildlife tourism, particularly tiger tourism in Indian national parks. The paper then discusses the implications of SCP for various stakeholders in wildlife tourism.

This paper explores the perspective of SCP in wildlife tourism, and it provides innovative approaches that stakeholders should adopt.

Purpose – Purpose of the research is to make a comprehensive study to elucidate the existing landscape of scientific production of disease outbreaks, pandemics and tourism research. In doing so, authors analyzed scientific production of pandemics and tourism-related studies such as year-wise publications, productive authors, institutes, funding sponsors, thematic areas of research and citation analysis.

Design/methodology/approach – Authors analyzed the research papers indexed in the online Scopus database over 50 years of time starting from 1971 to 2020 by using bibliometrics, and the data are visualized by using data visualization tools like VOSviewer and the Tableau.

Findings – The understanding of disease outbreaks and pandemics in tourism has increased over the years in terms of number of papers, citation, networks and collaborative themes of research.

Research limitations/implications – Data for the study were generated from Scopus online database and limited to English-written journal articles that were produced with search strategy of specific keywords associated with tourism, virus, pandemics and disease outbreak.

Practical implications – Findings of the research provide insights into academia and practitioners on the understanding of disease outbreaks, pandemics and tourism research, coherent development of the concept and understanding the research gap and focussed area of research.

Originality/value – As per authors' understanding, this paper would be one of the first attempts to provide greater understanding of disease outbreaks, pandemics and tourism as a research topic by examining the growth and evolution in an academic context through bibliometric analysis.

Paper type – Review paper.

The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 shook up the Global tourism and threatened many tourism destinations. After the first wave of COVID-19, the invention of vaccines prevented the spread of virus and the industry started healing itself. However, the second wave of the pandemic disrupted the recovery plans and polices of many tourism companies and planners. Tourism and Hospitality industry has faced many challenges in the past. But pandemic of this magnitude was unexpected. The impact is much deeper and complete end of such virus is unpredictable. The need of the hour is to take actions to unpack and reduce such recurring repercussion of COVID-19 and rethink and repackage tourism for restoring the demand. This foregrounds a framework to identify the impact of COVID-19 on Odisha Tourism and formulate a strategic approach for the restoration and survival of the tourism industry in Odisha. The study is both exploratory and descriptive in nature, based upon a qualitative research approach and includes collection of both primary and secondary data. Results of the study reveal that lockdown/shutdown and other restrictions due to pandemic have impacted the key tourism stakeholders in Odisha leaving them under financial instability. The study emphasises on promotion of domestic tourism in a big way. The study focuses on alternative tourism development and improved infrastructure relating to the screening, sanitisation and social distancing of the visitors will build confidence among the visitors and recreate interest in travel. IATA Travel Pass/Vaccination certificate should be a mandatory travel document for safe travel practice.