Degrowth and Tourism : New Perspectives on Tourism Entrepreneurship, Destinations and Policy.

ISBN:

9781000340204

Title:

Author:

Hall, C. Michael.

Personal Author:

Hall, C. Michael.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Series:

Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility Ser.

Contents:

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of acronyms -- 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)? -- Index.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Sustainable tourism.

Added Author:

Lundmark, Linda.

Zhang, Jundan Jasmine.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2020

Publication Information:

Milton :

Taylor & Francis Group,

2020.

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Summary

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.

Author Notes

C. Michael Hall is a Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent in Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; Visiting Professor in Tourism at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden; and a Guest Professor in the Department of Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden. He has written widely on tourism, regional development, heritage, food and global environmental change.

Linda Lundmark is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research interests among others are tourism, mobility, climate change and natural resources as part of contemporary and future development prospects in rural and sparsely populated areas in the far North. She is currently the chair of the Centre of Regional Science scientific advisory board and has received funding for several large research projects from Swedish research councils. She is also part of several research networks on tourism and tourism in polar areas.

Jundan Jasmine Zhang is a Postdoc at the Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. She has a PhD in Tourism from University of Otago, New Zealand. Her main research interest lies in understanding the relationships between human and 'nature' in the context of global tourism. Jasmine has published in journals such as Annals of Tourism Research , Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Tourism Geographies , on subjects ranging from political ecology of tourism to tourism methodologies. She is currently doing research under the project SVALUR - Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Environmental Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard where she is dedicated to bringing forward the multiplicity of knowledge on environmental changes through environmental humanitarian approaches.