Directional - Responsible Tourism : An approach to deal with the crisis of COVID-19 coronavirus

Nowadays, the tourism industry is facing special conditions due to the Pandemic of COVID-19 disease. To overcome this crisis, cannot rely on the actions of the government alone. The main idea of this research is to use the concepts of responsible tourism and to propose an approach called directional-responsible tourism to deal with the consequences of COVID -19. In this approach, the role of the government as a leader is combined with the role of the tourism body as a responsible and it is stated how responsible behavior in action at the individual and organizational level contributes to the concept of leadership at the macro level. The present study is a qualitative exploratory research. Qualitative content analysis method was used to formulate the solutions and screening was used to finalize them. Finally, the solutions were prioritized according to the two dimensions of implementation capability and helping to achieve the goals. The results show that all stakeholders, including government, industry, social groups, and even people and tourists, have a key role to play in overcoming this crisis faster and must play their part.