El Covid-19 y la Guerra Invisible: ¿Es el Fin de la Hospitalidad? / Covid and the Invisible War: Is this the End of Hospitality?

Resumo

RESUMEN

El brote del virus conocido como Sars-Cov2 [o coronavirus] ha sido golpe significativo que afirma una tendencia iniciada luego de 2001 a la auto canibalización o fin de la hospitalidad occidental, sino que transforma el propio cuerpo y lo dispone como un arma para atacar al otro. Como ya se ha mencionado, la vieja dicotomía entre el turista deseado como un agente de crecimiento económico y el inmigrante temido como huésped no deseado, da paso a un nuevo paisaje, donde el turista es visto – con cierta sospecha – como un potencial enemigo. Como la guerra contra el cáncer en 1970, la guerra contra el crimen local en los 1990, y la guerra contra el terror en 2001, ahora el mundo vive la guerra contra un virus. En este nuevo mundo, la hospitalidad clásica cede hacia una hospitalidad absoluta donde el hotel se recicla como hospital.

PALABRAS CLAVES

Hospitalidad; Turismo; Coronavirus; Covid19; El fin del Turismo.

ABSTRACT

The recent virus outbreak resulted from Sars-Cov2 [coronavirus disease] not only has been a serious blow to the Western social imaginary, likely affirming a tendency ignited just after 2001 to the self-cannibalization – or at the best the end of hospitality as we know it –, but also disposed of the body as a potential killer who affects the public health. As this paper shows, the old dichotomy revolving around a desired tourist who is an agent of wealth production and globalization and the undesired migrant has been blurred.  Now the global tourist is widely seen with some mistrust, as a potential enemy who may place the societal order in jeopardy. Like the war against Cancer in 1970s decade, the war against the local crime in the 1980, or the war on terror just after 9/11, now the world has declared the war against a virus. In this new world, the sacred law of hospitality is basically revisited according to the passage from an absolute to an unconditional hospitality [a-la Derrida].

KEYWORDS

Hospitality; Tourism; Coronavirus Disease; Covid19; The End of Tourism.

AUTORIA

Maximiliano E Korstanje – Doctor. Profesor Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, e en la University of Leeds, Leed, Reino Unido. Currículo:  https://www.igi-global.com/affiliate/maximiliano-korstanje/332098. E-mail: mkorst@palermo.edu

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PROCESSO EDITORIAL SEÇÃO ESPECIAL COVID-19

Recebido 11 JUN 2020; Aceito 14 JUN 2020.