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Experienced researchers theorise what the future holds for tourism research.
This book brings together experienced and well-respected researchers to understand, interpret and envision the future for tourism. It examines the transformations taking place in tourism currently and the potential future changes that could occur.
The volume also explores the limitations of predicting the future of tourism and areas that need to be addressed such as climate change, technology, sustainability, hypermobility, regeneration and destination management. It considers the uncertain directions for the future and sets an agenda for the transformation of tourism. The book will be a useful resource for researchers and students in tourism and future studies, as well as tourism planners and public sector agencies.
Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK and the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His most recent publications include the Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Indigenous Peoples (with Anna Carr, 2025) and The Tourism Area Life Cycle: Review, Relevance and Revision (Channel View Publications, 2024).
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Contributors
Memoriam
Acknowledgements
Richard Butler: Prologue
Part 1: Current Issues for the Future
Chapter 1. Karl Wöber and Daniel R. Fesenmaier: The Future of and for Tourism
Chapter 2. Stefan Gössling: Tourism is (in) a Crisis: Academia and Desirable Futures
Part 2: Potential Transformations, Current and Future
Chapter 3. Mingming Cheng, Lingxue Zhan and Xiaoxi Yu: The Future of Social Media and its Impact on Tourism
Chapter 4. Shinji Yamashita and Takae Tanaka: 'Online Tourism' as a Resilient Form of Tourism after Covid-19: Experiences in Japan
Chapter 5. Antónia Correia: Tourism Futures: A Transformative Cycle or a Turnaround Movement?
Chapter 6. Chaozhi (Taylor) Zhang: Heritage as a Catalyst for Tourism Destination Transformation: An Innovation and Knowledge Spillover Perspective
Chapter 7. David A. Fennell and Jordan McNeillie: Ethical Guidelines for Animal Use in Tourism: New Perspectives and Future Directions
Part 3: Managing Destinations in the Future
Chapter 8. Vincent Wing Sun Tung: The Future of Tourism: A Multiphase, Multistakeholder Perspective
Chapter 9. Salvador Anton Clavé: Local Destinations and Global Transitions: Towards a Co-Evolutionary Policy Research Approach
Chapter 10. Roger Carter: Future Governance of Tourism Destinations
Chapter 11. Alan Fyall, Gaurav Panse, Sergio Alvarez and Arthur Huang: Operationalising Sustainability for a Mass Tourism Destination: Contextualised Factors and Evidence-Based Institutional Practice
Part 4: Approaches to Changing Tourism
Chapter 12. Tanja Mihalic: The Future of the Sustainable Tourism Paradigm: Navigating Transformative Forces and Expanding into Space and Cyberspace
Chapter 13. Janne Liburd: Co-Designing Regenerative Tourism Futures
Chapter 14. Scott Cohen: Hypermobility and Climate Change: Towards a Just Future
Chapter 15. Daniel Scott: Global Climate Change and the Future of Tourism Development
Part 5: The Future: Uncertain Directions?
Chapter 16. Norbert Vanhove: The Future of Tourism in a Changing Economic Environment
Chapter 17. Bob McKercher: The New Normal or Same Old, Same Old
Chapter 18. Pauline Sheldon, Scott McCabe, Ulrike Gretzel, Larry Dwyer, David Simmons and Maria Gravari-Barbas: Setting an Agenda for the Transformation of Tourism
Richard Butler: Epilogue
Index