Description
Book SynopsisOffering conceptual, empirical and policy contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this comprehensive Handbook investigates a broad range of innovations and new approaches to tourism aimed at enhancing sustainability.
Examining the ongoing competitiveness that exists in 21st Century tourism within a global market environment, chapters expand the debate on how innovation can tackle current challenges including providing clean energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. With climate change and environmental degradation intensifying, this Handbook reviews the urgent system changes needed, as well as considering social dimensions in order to provide cohesion between innovation and tourism. Furthermore, it highlights the important role of policy and governance to allow collective action for the public good while paying greater attention to human values.
Researchers and scholars of tourism studies, including tourism management and tourism geography, will find the suggested innovations and debates informative and illustrative. This innovative Handbook will also be an excellent guide for practitioners and policy-makers embedding new and improved ‘ways of doing’ to promote and provide for sustainable tourism.
Trade Review‘Innovation is the key to transforming sustainable tourism from an ideal into a reality. This insightful collection of essays outlines how dominant growth and competitiveness paradigms need to, and can, be challenged by imaginative and collaborative innovation. This is cutting-edge research on a vitally important and pressing topic.’ -- Allan M. Williams, University of Surrey, UK
Innovation that is based on the principles of sustainable tourism is of paramount importance in light of the climate emergency, global biodiversity loss, plastic pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic – and technology (digital and otherwise) can play a critical role in tackling these. The Handbook of Innovation for Sustainable Tourism is a thought-provoking contribution to the literature, with 16 diverse papers from contributors drawn from across the world, that bolsters our understanding of system change and technology, destination innovation, social dimensions and innovative approaches. -- Anna Spenceley, Spenceley Tourism And Development Ltd (STAND), UK
‘This book makes a timely and vital intervention in dialogues concerning the future of tourism sustainability and broader narratives about “building back better”. Business as usual is no longer valid as many of the contributions to this book implore, for without systematic innovation the path towards sustainable tourism will remain a pipe dream. One of the strengths of this book is its pragmatic stance on pathways and transitions to sustainable tourism, thus making it suitable for practitioners, policy-makers and academic researchers alike.’ -- Joseph M. Cheer, Wakayama University, Japan
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Innovation for Sustainable Tourism 1 Irma Booyens and Patrick Brouder PART I SYSTEMS CHANGE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR TOURISM SUSTAINABILITY 2 ‘Leave no one behind’: towards sustainable innovations in tourism development 21 Jarkko Saarinen 3 Sustainable innovation in the global airline industry 40 Keith Debbage and Neil Debbage 4 Innovative Internet of Things (IoT) for sustainable tourism 61 Anna Marie Dyhr Ulrich, Kati Reino and Anne-Mette Hjalager 5 Towards an evolutionary approach to sustainability transitions in tourism 82 Piotr Niewiadomski and Patrick Brouder PART II INNOVATION FOR DESTINATION AND REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY 6 Innovation for sustainable destinations: the role of certification and partnership 112 Dorthe Eide and Hindertje Hoarau-Heemstra 7 Towards sustainable tourism through lab-driven innovations: a systematic literature review 140 Olga Høegh-Guldberg, Dorthe Eide and Yati Yati 8 Innovation, wine tourism, and sustainable winegrowing in cool climate regions: a longitudinal international comparative analysis 167 Tim Baird, C. Michael Hall, Pavel Castka and Haywantee Ramkissoon PART III SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF INNOVATION VIS-À-VIS TOURISM SUSTAINABILITY 9 Social innovation for sustainable tourism development 193 Irma Booyens 10 Grassroots innovation in justice tourism: posthumanist insights from the Sahrawi refugee camps of Western Sahara 210 Jaume Guia, Suchi Smita Mahato, Shima Ahmadi and Sil van de Velde 11 Sustainable adventure tourism employment in practice: the case of Stormsriver Adventures in South Africa 230 Julia Kathryn Giddy 12 Social media influencers and tourism sustainability: the good, the irritating, and the desperate 250 Konstantinos Tomazos 13 Applying an historical approach to innovation and tourism: the ‘international hotel’ in apartheid South Africa 274 Christian M. Rogerson PART IV INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 14 Innovating towards a critical reflexive approach to political ecology for ecological justice and sustainable tourism 293 Llewellyn Leonard 15 Undertaking research among marginalised tourism communities in Kenya: an important methodological lesson 310 Pratima Sambajee, Ann Ndiuini, Peter Mutinda Masila, Damiannah Kieti, Tom Baum, Rita Wairimu Nthiga, Jonathan Plimo Ng’oriarita and Ezekiel Ondabu Kiage 16 Innovation for enhancing heritage tourism at the Cape Coast Castle, Ghana 330 David Ania Ayiine-Etigo 17 Integrating innovative digital technologies into use assessment of parks and protected areas in North America 347 Monir Shahzeidi, Farhad Moghimehfar, Garrett Stone and Jesse Miller Index
