This book gathers theoretical and empirical studies exploring the link between global crises, sustainable tourism and the justice challenges being faced by vulnerable groups, individuals, and society.
While any crisis may exacerbate existing inequalities, the crises of the 21st century are compounding and complicating the ways the impacts unfold and engulf individuals, communities and indeed, the global community. Recent crises revealed how dependent our economies and societies are on the tourism and hospitality industries. While studies of crises in tourism have proliferated, with concerns for risk management, recovery and resilience, COVID-19 has exposed the need to think more profoundly on this topic. In such circumstances, therefore, tourism actors must respond to the sustainability and justice challenges resulting from current and future crises by rethinking, redefining and reorienting tourism. The chapters in this edited volume present a discussion of pertinent themes that consider just transformations, issues of climate justice, diverse worldviews and knowledges, possibilities for solidarity through tourism, and concerns with power and decolonisation.
This book will be of great interest to upper-level students, researchers, and academic of tourism, development studies and sustainability, as well as professionals in the field of tourism management. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
This book gathers theoretical and empirical studies exploring the link between global crises, sustainable tourism and the justice challenges being faced by vulnerable groups, individuals, and society. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
Foreword: Academics can change the world, if they stop talking only to
their peers Introduction: Tourism, global crises and justice: rethinking,
redefining and reorienting tourism futures
1. Toward critical race tourism:
valuing counter-narratives and endarkened storywork
2. The Potential of Toxic
Tours: Indigenous Perspectives on Crises, Relationships, Justice and
Resurgence in Oklahoma Indian Country
3. Gender justice in global tourism:
exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative
economics
4. Justice and community citizenship behavior for the environment:
small tourism business entrepreneurs perspectives
5. Reimagining childrens
participation: a child rights informed approach to social justice in tourism
6. Tourism and refugee-crisis intersections: co-creating tour guide
experiences in Leeds, England
7. Seeking justice beyond the platform economy:
migrant workers navigating precarious lives
8. Do international sanctions
help or inhibit justice and sustainability in tourism?
9. Tourism policies
and inclusive development: the case of Kenya and Rwanda
10. Tourism policy,
spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city
11. The
poor on the road: qiongyou as a collective resistance and justice tourism
12.
Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty
13. Decolonising
tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in
Cambodia
14. Rethinking the space of tourism, its power-geometries, and
spatial justice
Raymond Rastegar is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel management, Griffith University. He holds a PhD in Tourism Management and his scholarly interest and expertise lie in the fields of justice, sustainability transitions and environmental conservation. His research delivered new insights into the tourism phenomenon to advocate a more just and sustainable tourism future for humans and nonhumans.
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Business Unit at the University of South Australia; Adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Recreation and Leisure, University of Waterloo, Canada; and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism at the Taylors University of Malaysia. Her work focuses on social justice, human rights and sustainability issues in tourism.
Lisa Ruhanen is Professor and Deputy Head of School at the University of Queensland Business School, Brisbane, Australia. She has been involved in almost 30 academic and consultancy research projects in Australia and overseas. Her research areas include sustainable tourism destination policy and planning, climate change and Indigenous tourism.
