Five years after Yang et al.’s (2021) early review of COVID-19 tourism studies, it is worth taking stock of the research landscape again. Various articles emerged in relation to this crisis. However, because many described similar surveys or scenarios without offering novel insights, academics warned of a “paperdemic” of low-quality research (Dinis-Oliveira, 2020). As the final contribution to the Coronavirus Curated Collection, this research note does not aim to present a systematic and comprehensive review; rather, it offers an integrative picture of how COVID-era investigations have molded the contours of tourism scholarship.