International tourism and global capitalism is currently in the throes of a series of profound and recurrent crises.  While much of the recent attention has been on the recovery of tourism from the shock triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, and more recently, the intensifying climate crisis, the current conjuncture is marked by a “polycrisis” (Tooze, 2022). It is one moreover, that is compounded by an intensification of political divisions and a legitimation crisis of democracy. This t...

The ‘Our Stories, Your City’ project is an innovative collaboration between Mercat Tours and the Grassmarket Community partnership in Edinburgh. In the aftermath of the widespread lockdowns in 2020, the initiative invited tour guests to ‘pay forward’ a walking tour and heritage attraction visit to benefit local residents who experience low income, ill health, disability or other forms of disadvantage. While...

I am keen on learning how tourism is entangled in World(s) making and unmaking processes, particularly its role in unveiling and perhaps countervailing the power relations within the bastions of the capitalist superstructure, where Marx and Engels’ (1919) prognosis, “exploitation of the many by the few” (p. 29) has become a dreadful neoliberal symbiosis. If given the opportunity, I am interested in dialogue...

Cette communication vise à analyser le processus de la résistance paysanne contre le mégaprojet touristique Destination Ile-à-Vache (Haïti). Cette analyse se base sur une enquête empirique réalisée entre décembre 2019 et janvier 2020 à Ile-à-Vache. Les résultats de cette recherche qualitative nous permettent d’avancer que le mouvement de résistance paysanne résulte d’un processus de construction impliquant ...

Climate change tends to be framed in long timescales by institutional actors. However, some territories are already facing the effects of climate change, particularly in island environments. As tourism plays an important role in these spaces, it is important to understand how humans and their tourism organizations are dealing with the effects of climate change (Scott & Gössling, 2022). To study the resp...

In recent years, I have been an active member of two distinct scholarly fields of study: Critical Tourism Studies and Critical Refugee Studies. I have consistently noted remarkable overlaps in the two fields. For example, as critical projects, the fields of Critical Tourism Studies and Critical Refugee Studies share the fundamental objectives of examining border controls and how governmental power normalize...

This talk will begin by taking the audience on an exploration of Indigenous-led toxic tours as tools for connecting with and supporting goals of justice and resurgence for place and people alike. Drawing first from the case study of Tar Creek Toxic Tours in northeastern Oklahoma Indian Country and Bobbie's close collaboration with toxic tour leaders, these stories offer an important example of how the impacts of toxic assaults on land, water, air, humans and non-human beings alike continue...

Ah, Lofoten! This arctic island archipelago off the coast of Norway harbors emerald fjords, icy waters and beaches where folk linger to bathe in the midnight sun. Pristine. Stunning. Magic. Norway. But something else lingers here, the alluring scent of money perhaps, as municipalities here turn to nature-based tourism to grow local economies. Tourism to Lofoten has exploded in recent years, and especially to the newly for...

Indigenous tourism has been identified as a means to increase sustainable livelihoods in Canada’s Northernmost regions. These areas have traditionally relied on resource based economies and due to the issues surrounding resource extraction, climate change, and biodiversity loss are currently in transition. Communities in Canada’s Northern regions tend to be isolated with minimal infrastructure, issues relat...

This presentation considers how affects animate and uphold tourism and settler colonialism. Engaging a “curious” postdisciplinary research methodology informed by the relational power of listening, I trace the emergence of two interrelated atmospheres in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, both of which exemplify how settler colonialism is built and maintained as a structure of feeling (Robinson, 20...

Tourism literature has highlighted the growth in tourism education as an important area in institutions of higher learning since the 1980s (Fidgeon, 2010; Liburd, Hjalager, & Christensen, 2011; Sheldon, Fesenmaier, & Tribe, 2011). This phenomenon is attributed to the growth in the global tourism industry, and the consequent need to develop a pedagogical understanding of tourism and hospitality studi...

The use of retired racehorses in tourism has attracted a great deal of attention because the overproduction and mass slaughter of racehorses have come under serious criticism in this Anthropocene era. In Japan, some people enjoy eating horse meat, which could be part of retired American racehorses slaughtered in Mexico and exported to Japan, while others are eager to safeguard retired racehorses by keeping ...

This panel will be a discussion on multilingual scholarship. In an academic world where metrics rules and english language journal are setting the norms, why building multilingual scholarship? What it involves for the scholars who make those choices? Those are the line of inquiry that we will explore in this panel. 

Social capital is an essential concept to consider in tourism development. Tourism is by nature, socially interactive, where different actors interact on several levels. Tourism thus creates a situation that can permit socialization and support the growth of relationships, which can lead to the creation of social capital (Van Ingen & Van Eijck, 2009; Yuen et al., 2005; Dworkin et al., 2003). The Cape Co...

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Tourism, identified just a few years ago as an inescapable global phenomenon, has been called into question in terms of its trajectory, its effects and even... its relevance. Theories suggesting that certain countries will catch up on the basis of quantitative criteria, or proposing a set of measures to accelerate economic growth, appear to be clearly out of step with the acceleration in inequalities and the multiplication of climatic challenges observed in recent years. Tourism is at the ...

According to David Weaver (2021), «radical and more immediate paradigm shift, although strongly advocated as a timely imperative by some academics (Ateljevic 2020; Guia 2021; Renaud 2020; Sigala 2020), by contrast, seems unlikely to gain traction given the apparent lack of appetite for revolutionary change among consumers, practitioners, or communities ». It is therefore through a neoliberal ecosystem where...