of the last 10 years and the frm commitment to growth at all costs, without taking into account other legal assets that should be protected . 20 3.2. – Tourism as the main industry afected: The change in the tourism model As can be easily understood, tourism is one of the economic sectors most afected by this health emergency . The tourism industry is essentially based 21 on the mobility of the recipients of services, something which, as we have already seen, has been restricted since March 2020 with varying degrees of intensity. From the total limitation of the frst months of the quarantine, with a ban on leaving home except for activities considered essential, to more or less severe restrictions depending on the number of contagions, the situation of intensive care units in hospitals or the degree of immunisation of the population achieved through vaccines or the contagions themselves. The point is that tourism, which is based, as I say, at least for the moment, on experiences outside the place of habitual residence , has been radically 22 afected by the situation, drastically reducing its activity to the point of what we As pointed out by ROMERO PADILLA, M., ROMERO MARTÍNEZ, J. Mª. y NAVARRO 20 JURADO, E., (2020) “Refexiones desde el post crecimiento: ideas, estrategias y tácticas para el turismo post-COVID-19”, p. 3, "The fnancial crisis of 2008 was resolved with labour precariousness, concentration of companies and cheaper holidays (aeroplanes, housing and low cost activities). On the whole, it was decided to reproduce the same economic system: public bailouts for private banks, without demanding too many controls, lack of protection for families and small businesses, concentration of companies and more growth as the only guide along the way. These general elements have a signifcant impact on tourism [...] The aim of this paper is to refect on how to approach the transformation of the tourism operating system in the current health crisis from a post-growth perspective, avoiding reproducing and extending the problems of the previous situation. It would be neither prudent nor proftable to recover a fragile and weakened tourism sector after the crisis. It must emerge stronger, and for this, short-term palliative economic actions are not enough, outside a broader structure with medium- and long-term strategies and objectives that address the climate emergency". PÉREZ GUERRA, R., (2020), “Algunas notas sobre el derecho administrativo del turismo: 21 COVID-19”, Revista General de Derecho Administrativo, Iustel, 54, “Tourism, as an economic activity and one of Spain's most important strategic sectors, will also be afected by this pandemic. Tourism is perhaps the economic sector in which COVID-19 has caused a major tsunami because it is an activity that is based on the movement of people from their habitual residence to other destinations for holiday and/or leisure purposes and which is subject to seasonality; in short, it is a very fragile and completely globalised sector”. In the following sections, I will focus on this idea, i.e. how information and knowledge 22 technologies can provide us with experiences similar to those obtained by tourist consumers without the need to move from our own place of residence. Through, for example, virtual reality instruments or artifcial intelligence systems. It remains to be determined, but this cannot be the subject of this paper, whether this will really be considered tourism or other types of information society services. In international conference ESHTE | INATEL on October 16th, 17th and 18th. 2022 a very interesting presentation on Metaverse and tourism was given, which I am looking forward to reading in full (Claudia Madrid Martínez, Venezuela, Central University of Venezuela) 12
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