Session H
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The global tourism industry has deep ties within the institutional structure of higher education made possible by a neoliberal order dictated by the North onto Southern nations. I seek to understand the ways in which short term higher education volunteer programs bolster (or do not bolster) this neoliberal order based on the interactions between student volunteers and local communities. I contest that these...
Tourism governance facilitates dialogue among interest groups, particularly in matters concerning destination planning and management, through transparency in the formulation of public policies. Its benefits are demonstrated in the form of improved autonomous political debate by civil society, contributing to emancipatory movements as opposed to just protest or defence-type ones. However, we also found that tourism governance has been used to promote urban growth or to boost the economy, w...
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...
