ABSTRACT
In recent years, a paradigm shift towards “regenerative tourism” has emerged in tourism practice and research (Cave et al., 2022; Dredge, 2022). This shift occurred partly as a reaction to the perceived failures of sustainable tourism, which has long been criticised for not being able to successfully address the social and environmental issues tourism creates for host communities and natural ecosystems (Cave and Dredge, 2020). At its most basic, the notion of regenerative tourism aims to align the tourism and travel sector towards delivering a net positive benefit to nature, people and places, whilst supporting the longstanding prosperity of social and ecological systems (Dredge, 2022; Hui et al., 2023).
