This timely and innovative handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the current critical debates, trends, and the transformative potential of regenerative tourism, and also looks towards a more responsible, inclusive, and sustainable future for tourism.
Comprising specifically commissioned, original contributions from recognised authors and experts in the field, the book provides a logically structured and systematic guide to the current state of knowledge in this area. It is interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content. The volume commences with an assessment of the principles and theoretical foundation of regenerative tourism, which provides a context to explore the policy, planning, development, destination management and marketing, local impacts, manifestations, and future of regenerative tourism.
This is essential reading for students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policymakers, government officials, and industry professionals interested in the possibilities of responsible and sustainable, and regenerative forms of tourism.
This timely and innovative handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the current critical debates, trends and the transformative potential of regenerative tourism, and also looks towards a more responsible, inclusive and sustainable future for tourism.
'Introduction. Part
1. The Principles and Theoretical Foundation of
Regenerative Tourism.
1. Indigenous Values and Regenerative Tourism.
2.
Understanding Regenerative Tourism as a Driver for Transformational Change in
the 21st Century.
3. A Framework for Monitoring Regenerative Tourism through
Evidence-informed Planning.
4. Understanding the Anatomy of a Regenerative
Business.
5. Positioning Regenerative Tourism within Tourism Qualitative
Research: A Methodological Inquiry.
6. Using an Ethical Management Framework
for Regenerative Tourism: A Case Study of Resident and Visitor Perceptions in
Hśnažing vestra, Iceland.
7. Indicators of Regenerative Tourism: Measuring
Impact and Defining Regenerative Tourism for Socio-ecological Systems. Part
2. Planning, Development, Management and Marketing of Regenerative Tourism.
8. Regenerative Hospitality.
9. Regenerative Gastronomy in the Tourism
Context: An Overview.
10. Human Resources and Regenerative Tourism.
11.
Resilience in Regenerative Tourism: The Argentinian Case.
12. Tour Guides and
Barriers to Regenerative Tourism: Unlocking the Regenerative Potential of
Nature Destinations in Arctic Norway.
13. Examining Attitude and Intention
Toward Demarketing: The Case of Mt Fuji. Part
3. The Impacts of Regenerative
Tourism.
14. Regenerative Tourism from an Economic Perspective.
15. Cultural
Impacts of Regenerative Tourism: Intrinsic Connections Between Place and
Culture.
16. Environmental Impacts of Regenerative Tourism.
17. Challenges in
Transitioning to Regenerative Tourism: Territorial and Economic Scales of
Agency in Rural Spain.
18. Beyond the Beehives: Local Development through
Api-tourism.
19. Enhancing Community Wellbeing via Regenerative Tourism?
Aspirations and Approaches from Aotearoa New Zealand. Part
4. Local Stories
from Around the World.
20. Regenerative Food Tourism at Grootbos: A South
African Case Study.
21. Gastronomy as a Driver for Regenerative Tourism?
Risks and Possibilities for a Change of Course in the chinampera Zone
(Xochimilco, Mexico City).
22. Citizen Science Pilot Project in Snaefellsnes,
Iceland: The Process of Planning and Implementation for Future Work in
Regenerative Tourism.
23. Transformative Storytelling Practices in
Regenerative Tourism: A Case Study from a Tourism Operator.
24. Regenerative
Tourism 'In the Making': Challenges of Product Innovation within Existing
Structures.
25. Exploring Potentials for Coral Reef Restoration in Pacific
Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) as Regenerative Tourism.
26. Okinawan
Cheese: The Harmonization of Cultures, Land and Regenerative Tourism. Part
5.
Manifestations of Regenerative Tourism.
27. Regenerative Tourism Seeds in
Urban Regeneration: Evidence from Milan, Italy.
28. Reimagining Nature-based
Tourism: A Critical Reflection on Inspiring Regeneration and Ecological
Restoration.
29. Regeneration in Wellness Tourism.
30. Regenerative Rural
Tourism: The Concept and its Application.
31. Local Food Culture for
Regenerative Futures in Nordic Arctic: Understanding of Local Food
Experiences.
32. Creative Tourism as a Humanistic Approach to Regenerative
Tourism. Part
6. The Future of Regenerative Tourism.
33. Considerations of
the Regenerative Tourism Movement's "Claim" to Indigenous Knowledeges.
34.
The Challenges Facing the Regenerative Tourism Movement.
35. A Regenerative
Approach for Tourism SMEs: Five Consructs for a Regenerative Tourism Journey.
36. Digital Technology and Regenerative Tourism.
37. The Regenerative
Traveler Mindset.
38. For a Future (Re)generation: Modelling Effective
Tourism Communication for a Social-ecological Development of Local
Communities and Destinations. Conclusion.
Francesc Fusté-Forné is Associate Professor Serra Hśnter at the Department of Business, University of Girona (Catalonia, Spain). He holds a PhD in Tourism (University of Girona) and a PhD in Communication (Ramon Llull University). His research is focused on food and rural marketing and tourism. He also conducts applied research on the role of gastronomy in relation to mass media and as a driver of social changes.
Asif Hussain, PhD, is a strategic consultant, and the founding director of the Sustainability and Resilience Institute (SRI), New Zealand, as well as the founder of the award-winning Smart Regenerative Tourism (SmaRT) App, dedicated to Transforming tourism for a better tomorrow. Asifs work draws on the ancestral wisdom of Indigenous peoples, emphasising the importance of collective community resilience, environmental stewardship, and the interconnectedness of humans with the natural world.
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