Carvalho, Rui2022-12-282022-12-282020http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/42890The unprecedented advent of COVID 19 has put the world and tourism sectors at a halt. Never have we faced a global problem such as the one we are experiencing. While countries take measures to mitigate the pandemic “revolution”, the tourism sector strongly affected, tries once again to fight against this major problem. At the time I write this contribution, 50 - 75 million jobs are estimated to be lost in tourism and according to the UNWTO, a million jobs, some of them in layoff conditions in this sector will be lost per day and global tourism arrivals could fall by nearly a third this year in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The approach I use to discuss such matters and point to creative actions in the Post-COVID 19 pandemic tourism world, is based in the agency of Pierre Bourdieu and the concept of action of Hanna Arendt. This is done to emphasize transformative decisions and actions by all social agents of the tourism ecosystem in trying to thrive in the post-pandemic tourism scenario. Such suggestions are presented in the final section of this contribution. The author postulates that only fully engaged tourism academics and practitioners, willing to act differently and to take actions in changing the world of tourism.engTourismCOVID19CreativityAgencyActionbook part