1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Indigenous Peoples

Edited By Richard Butler, Anna Carr Copyright 2025
496 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

496 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

496 Pages 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Indigenous Peoples presents an up-to-date, critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes around Indigeneity and connections between Indigenous peoples and tourism development. Offering socio-cultural perspectives and multidisciplinary insights from leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and tourism practitioners, the book... Read more

1. Introduction: Revisiting Tourism and Indigenous People

Anna Carr and Richard Butler

 

Section 1: Indigeneity

 

2. “Are We Not All Indigenous?” Negotiating Indigeneity in Greenlandic Tourism

Carina Ren

 

3. The Constant Creation of Aboriginality: A Commentary on Indigenous Being and Becoming

Keith Hollinshead

 

4. A Critical Realist Appraisal of Indigeneity: The Case of Miao Peoples in a Tourism Village in China

Jianhong Zhou and Johan Edelheim

 

5. Power, Policies, and Cultural Sensitivity in Ainu Tourism: Indigenous Involvement in and Control over Tourism Developments in Hokkaido, Japan

Mayumi Okada and Johan Edelheim

 

Section 2: Indigenous

 

6. Decolonising Indigenous Tourism: Reconciliation, Truth-Telling, Whiteness and “Welcome to Country” in Australia

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

 

7. Learn, Teach, Heal: Indigenous Tourism as a Site for Reclaiming and Becoming 

Helen Jennings

 

8. “Come and Know a Little about Your Own Backyard”: Transformative Learning Potentials through Knowledge Sharing in Indigenous Tourism in Australia

Nicole Curtin, Tracy Woodroffe and Clinton Walker

 

9. Tourism, Truth-Telling and Sovereignty:  A Gitxaała Perspective

Caroline Butler and Bruce Watkinson

 

10. You Can’t Ask that! Projective Techniques Unearth Socio-Cultural Aversions towards Indigenous Tourism

Afiya Holder

 

11. An Indigenous Community Code of Conduct for Tourist Behaviours: Voices from the Tibet Autonomous Region, China

Xiaotao Yang, Heather Mair and Bryan Grimwood

 

12. Confronting Marginalisation? Gender Dynamics and Batwa Engagement with Tourism in Uganda

Brenda Boonabaana, Amos Ochieng and Christine Ampumuza

 

Section 3: Indigenous Alternatives

 

13. Doing It the 'Pacific Way': Indigenous Education and Training in the Pacific Islands

Tracy Berno, Rerekura Teaurere and Dawn Gibson

 

14. Stewarding Māori Taonga for Sustainable Indigenous Tourism Enterprise

Ashley Puriri and Alison McIntosh

 

15.  Indigenising Tourism by Indigenising the Landscape: A Digital Marketing Case Study of Wagiman Ethnobiology for Tourism and Conservation

Gabrielle McGinnis

 

16. Conversations about Culture: The Need to Integrate Indigenous Voices into the Development of Sustainable Cultural Heritage Tourism Opportunities in the Pacific

Anne Ford, Anna Carr, Nyssa Mildwaters, Dionne Fonoti, Gregory Jackmond and Glenn Summerhayes

 

17. Tourism Enterprises in the South Pacific: Culturally Centered Adaptation in the face of Covid-19

Jason Mika, Apisalome Movono, Sophie Auckram, Suzanne Hepi and Regina Scheyvens

 

Section 4: Indigenous Knowledge and Rights

 

18. The Integration of Indigenous Knowledge in Canadian Protected Areas to Foster Conservation, Reconciliation, and Tourism Development

Courtney Mason, Bill Snow and Jason W. Johnston

 

19. Tourism Appropriation: “Taking” Land and Culture in Sámi Areas

Arvid Viken

 

20. An Evaluation of the New Ainu Law: Tourism Promotion Policy and Indigenous Rights of the Ainu People in Japan

Atsuko Hashimoto

 

21. Indigenous Hosts and Food Security: A Case Study from Simien Mountains National Park

Gebeyaw Ambelu Degarege

 

22. Indigenous Knowledge as an Important Contribution to the Sustainability of Geotourism and Geoparks

Martina Pásková, Taiwo Temitope Lasisi and Abraham Cáceres Cabana

 

23. Reflexivity on the Establishment of National Parks in the Light of the Chapter by Mason et al

Richard Butler

 

Section 5: Indigenous Tourism Innovations and Developments

 

24. Social Innovation in an Indigenous Tourism Development

Sonya Graci and Kylik Kisoun Taylor

 

25. Pathways to Culturally Sensitive Tourism Policies and Practices

Monika Lüthje, Emily Höckert and Outi Kugapi

 

26. The Upper Navua Conservation Area: Reflections on Ecotourism and Community

Kelly Bricker and Kasimiro Taukeinikoro

 

27. Indigenous Handicrafts Based Domestic Tourism in Bangladesh

Easnin Ara and Md Ariful Hoque

 

28. Indigenous Tourism in Iran

Atefeh Ahmadi Dehrashid and Zahed Ghaderi

 

29. Contemporary Arts and Indigenous Arts-based Tourism in West Africa

Clive Allanso and Marina Novelli

 

30. Don’t Worry. We Have Your Best Interests at Heart

Kelly Whitney-Gould

 

Section 6: Indigenous Involvement in Planning Development

 

31. Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC)

Richard Butler

 

32. Indigenous Tourism International Framework, Rights, and Empowerment of Grassroots Organizations: Latin America and the Chilean Case

Jean-Philippe Le Moigne

 

33. Development of the Inaugural Queensland First Nations Tourism Action Plan 2020-2025 and the Queensland First Nations Tourism Council

Michelle Whitford, Rhonda Appo, Cameron Costello and Lisa Ruhanen

 

34. Reflection on Aboriginal Tourism in Western Australia: A Balancing Act of Opportunity and Challenge

Robert Taylor

 

35. Conclusions

Richard Butler and Anna Carr

Appendix - Noongar Indigenous Tourism Research Protocol Declarations and Recommendations

Biography

Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor of Tourism at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland. He has taught at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, at the universities of Surrey and Strathclyde in the UK and held visiting professorships in Australia, Austria, Italy, Hong Kong and the Netherlands.

Anna Carr (Ngāpuhi, Ngati Ruanui, Ngāruahine) is an Associate Professor, co-director of the Centre for Recreation Research and Head of Department at the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand.