COVID-19 the intruder: A philosophical journey with Jean-Luc Nancy into pandemic strangeness and tourism.

Since the arrival of COVID-19, tourism scholarship has focused its attention on rethinking and restarting the tourism sector. In this urgent search for a 'new normal', the embodied of hosting such an unwelcomed virus, the philosophical questions this raises, and the tourism futures already in the making, have not been fully explored. The article introduces Nancy's (2000/2002) philosophy, [The Intruder], where he reflects on having a heart transplant operation to give body to the experiences of the self exteriority and of otherness always already within.