Tourism: Making or Breaking Places

On the 19th of February Jeroen Klijs official took up the position of professor Social Impacts of Tourism at Breda University of Applied Sciences. This article is a shortened version of his inaugural speech. The speech was interlaced with quotes from interview carried out with tourism experts from academia and industry. This article includes a selection of those quotes. Although the speech was delivered before the Corona crisis really took hold, and therefore does not reference to it, is not hard to see that the crisis ...