Degrowth and tourism : new perspectives on tourism entrepreneurship, destinations and policy
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Degrowth and tourism : new perspectives on tourism entrepreneurship, destinations and policy
（Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility）
Routledge, 2021
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The sustainability of tourism is increasingly under question given the challenges of overtourism, COVID-19 and the contribution of tourism to climate and environmental change. Degrowth and Tourism provides an original response to the central problem of growth in tourism, an imperative that has been intrinsic within tourism practice, and directs the reader to rethink the impacts of tourism and possible alternatives beyond the sustainable growth discourse.
Using a multi-scaled approach to investigate degrowth's macro effects and micro indications in tourism, this book frames degrowth in tourism in terms of business, destination and policy initiatives. It uses a combination of empirical research, case studies and theory to offer new perspectives and approaches to analyse issues related to overtourism, COVID-19, small-scale tourism operations and entrepreneurship, mobility and climate change in tourism. Interdisciplinary chapters provide studies on animal-based tourism, nature-based tourism, domestic tourism, developing community-centric tourism and many other areas, within the paradigm of degrowth.
This book offers significant insight on both the implications of degrowth paradigm in tourism studies and practices, as well as tourism's potential contributions to the degrowth paradigm, and will be essential reading for all those interested in sustainable tourism and transformations through tourism.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Degrowth and tourism: implications and challenges. Part 1: Degrowth and Tourism Entrepreneurship. 2. Decommodification as a socially embedded practice: The example of lifestyle enterprise in animal-based tourism. 3. Lifestyle entrepreneurs as agents of degrowth: The case of nature-based tourism businesses in Scandinavia. 4. Mobility transitions and rural restructuring in Sweden: a database study of holistic simplifiers. Part 2: Degrowth and Tourism Destinations. 5. Diverse tourism: A poststructural view on tourism destination degrowth transition. 6. Global importance, local problems: Degrowth in Italian World Heritage destinations. 7. Opportunities and barriers for degrowth in remote tourism destinations: overcoming regional inequalities? 8. Degrowth as a strategy for adjusting to the adverse impacts of climate change in a nature-based destination. Part 3: Degrowth and Tourism Policy. 9. Sustainable growth in tourism? Rethinking and resetting sustainable tourism for development. 10. Rethinking tourism: degrowth and equity rights in developing community-centric tourism. 11. Community-based tourism and degrowth. 12. Don't leave town till you've seen the country: Domestic tourism as a degrowth strategy. 13. Degrowing Tourism: Can Grassroots Form the Norm? 14. COVID-19 pandemic, tourism and degrowth. 15. Conclusions - Degrowing tourism: Can tourism move beyond BAU (Brundtland-as-Usual)?
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