ABSTRACT
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
part 1|46 pages
Degrowth and tourism entrepreneurship
chapter 2|16 pages
Decommodification as a socially embedded practice
chapter 3|13 pages
Lifestyle entrepreneurs as agents of degrowth
chapter 4|15 pages
Mobility transitions and rural restructuring in Sweden
part 2|63 pages
Degrowth and tourism destinations
chapter 7|16 pages
Opportunities and barriers for degrowth in remote tourism destinations
part 3|116 pages
Degrowth and tourism policy