This presentation explores emerging tourism patterns and prospects, in the context of the multifold and complex recent turn in tourism mobilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, using the case study of the Cycladic Islands, Greece. At all geographical scales, patterns of tourism mobility have been and continue to be especially affected by the pandemic. In the emerging context of extremely tentative, fluid and ambivalent tourism mobilities, it is crucial to develop an understanding of distinctive trends and patterns from the bottom up, and especially so in tourism-dependent economies and societies, such as the Greek islands.