Annotated Bibliography-
My Topic
The topic I choose is how COVID affects the tourism industry. I choose this topic because I think it’s important to keep this industry moving on even though it’s hard to travel now. Traveling has been one of the most relaxing things for people to do. It is one of those large industries all over the world. I think it’s a good topic to focus on since our group is inventing an app about virtual traveling.
Research Questions
1.What actions or changes does the tourism industry do in order to keep their business going during a pandemic?
2.What impact COVID-19 brought on the tourism industry? [This question can probably be combined with the first one]
3.How traveling, these types of relaxing activities, help our mood during pandemic?
4.Why is it important to keep this industry going?
Reference Entry #1
World tourism organization. (n.d.). Retrieved March 11, 2021, from https://www.unwto.org/tourism-and-covid-19-unprecedented-economic-impacts
Summary
Tourism is a large industry in this globalized world. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it had challenged this industry in several aspects including the economic side and social side. Due to the pandemic, the revenue and GDP for the tourism industry had decreased. Tourism industry provided many job opportunities all over the world. As the research showed, 100 million tourism jobs are at risk now. Traveling got restricted. People who worked in this industry are now facing unemployment. Though it had negative impacts on our economy, it also brought us some positive impacts. The reduction in tourism actually helped protect our environment. The earth is becoming more healthy and green because there are less human activities involved. To maintain the movement of the economic flow, many people are trying different ways to restart tourism. One of the ideas is to move tourism into a digital format. This gave them a new choice to keep their industry moving. [This is a good source for general background information about your topic.]
Reflection
I really like this source because this article provided me different aspects on the impact COVID-19 brought on tourism. They gave us both negative and positive sides. I’m shocked by the data they provided. Before reading the article, I knew that there would be harm to the tourism industry but I never knew that much money was lost during this short period of time. It showed how strong the connection between people and traveling is. Including the workers who work in this industry. Many female and young workers are affected by the pandemic. [This is very interesting and it might be something worth looking at even deeper. Why is it that many of the workers being affected are young females?] Besides the negative effects, I never think that it could help us rebuild our environment. It’s amazing but also sarcaming that our happiness is the painfulness of our environment. To further operate the tourism industry, they had come up with several ways to restart traveling. I’m very impressed that they could find out that many alternative ways. [Which examples were most impressive for you?] It’s a great idea to balance out their advantages and disadvantages.
Paraphrase
“Tourism supports one in 10 jobs and provides livelihoods for many millions more in both developing and developed economies.” [This is another interesting piece of information because it makes me wonder how developing countries have been impacted by the loss of tourism revenue streams.]
- Many people weighed their life and money by being part of the tourism industry.
- I choose this quote because it feels a little bit confusing and not flowy. I think they need to clarify this statement so that people won’t get too confused. To paraphrase this quote, it gave me a clearer understanding about this statement.
Reference Entry #2
Virtual travel experiences to enjoy now. (n.d.). Retrieved March 12, 2021, from https://www.boatinternational.com/destinations/virtual-travel-tours-trips-vr-experiences–43207
Summary
Due to the coronavirus, people can not travel as they want to as usual. To rebuild their economy back, the tourism industry needs to find ways to keep their business going. Since the technology developed, there are more options than before. One of the ideas they think of is to combine traveling and technology. The invention of VR(virtual reality) technology helped them achieve their goal during times like pandemic. They added many different scenarios and experiences for people to try at home. Including having a tour in a national park, having a sightseeing tour, taking lessons for scuba diving, experiencing a fancy hotel at home, having a museum tour, and watching theatre performancing. Every fun thing people do can now all do it at home. We can still enjoy ourselves and have fun in pandemic without exposing ourselves out in public. Even though the experience is still different from the real life experience, it’s a way for us to connect ourselves to the world during this pandemic.
Reflection
Since the product for our group is going to be virtual traveling, I think this article really provides us many things we can do through mobile and or technology devices. COVID-19 brought traumatic damages on the economic system and social events. [I wonder how virtual travel experiences can bring money back to the countries where COVID impacted their tourism industries. Will these countries recover or will virtual travel hurt them even more?] Many entertainments are forbidden during this time period. Such as some of the festivals we usually held and the breaks we had during winter and spring. To stop the spread of COVID, it’s better for us to stay at home. However, it’s still important for us to keep our emotions in place so that we could still be positive. In this article, they mention combining technology with traveling experience. Though it’s not real life, the idea is fresh and cool. They bring more possibilities and options for people to have during quarantine time. In other words, we can experience fun activities at home without going out. Virtual reality really brought us into a different world where reality and our dream can be an alliance.
Paraphrase
“One way of getting tourists to travel abroad from the comfort of their own homes is through virtual reality (VR) technology and 360-degree videography. We round up the best virtual travel tours and online travel experiences that can be enjoyed online right now.”
- Virtual reality, as known as VR technology, is a 360-degree videography. During times like the pandemic where people can’t not go out and travel freely like usual, it’s a win-win that people can stay home and travel at the same time. We collected many different programs where you can enjoy various activities online right now.
- I choose this paragraph to paraphrase because this is supposed to be the major “topic sentence” for this entire article. I think they can be more attractive and clearly stated their benefits so that people would be more interested in it.
You’re off to a good start with your sources. It seems to me like you are focusing on the impact that COVID has had on tourism economies and how certain companies have tried to adapt by using virtual reality. This definitely leaves you open to form a strong argument later, when we write the essay.
Research questions: Peiting’s bibliography begins with the reason why she chooses this topic and research questions. I think the research questions are very specific and related to the topic because they all involve how tourism might survive in the pandemic. The research questions clearly tie the sources and annotation together because it answers most of the research questions. The first entry focus on answering the second research question, which is what impacts Covid brings to tourism. The second entry focuses on answering the third question, which is how virtual traveling can bring fun during the pandemic. A small suggestion I have is that peiting can focus on answering the first and fourth research questions in the third and fourth entry. Overall, they are very good resources.
Annotations: The annotations include both descriptions of the source and a concise evaluation of the resource as it pertains to the topic. Peiting’s summaries clearly express the main ideas of the sources. One confusion I have is : do we find the most interesting, confusing, fun, or important quotations to paraphrase?
Pei-Ting’s bibliography contains 4 research questions which in my opinion are all related to her topic (affect of Covid-19 on tourism). These questions seek for information that orbits around tourism: economy, traveling, Covid-19. Research questions clearly tie the sources with annotations together because both her entries answer her research questions; the first entry talks about the impact of Covid-19 on the tourism industry – jobs being lost and the decreasing of revenue and GDP. Second entry explains how technology may help in reducing the absence of traveling by using virtualization.
Annotations include a brief description of the main argument because they touch on how tourism is being hit by Covid-19. I understand the annotation but something that I think Pei-Ting may add on is the positive effect of Covid-19 on environment. You can add one or two concrete examples of how environment is not being affected by human activity.