Tourism, Global Crises and Justice Tourism Transition to a More Just and Sustainable Future

Foreword: Academics can change the world, if they stop talking only to their peers

Jeremy Sampson

Introduction: Tourism, global crises and justice: rethinking, redefining and reorienting tourism futures

Raymond Rastegar, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Lisa Ruhanen

Part I: Activating justice

1. Toward critical race tourism: valuing counter-narratives and endarkened storywork

Stefanie Benjamin & Judson Laughter

2. The potential of toxic tours: indigenous perspectives on crises, relationships, justice and resurgence in Oklahoma Indian country

Bobbie Chew Bigby, Earl Hatley and Rebecca Jim

3. Gender justice in global tourism: exploring tourism transformation through the lens of feminist alternative economics

Angela B. Kalisch and Stroma Cole

4. Justice and community citizenship behavior for the environment: small tourism business entrepreneurs’ perspectives

Mao-Ying Wu, Xinfang Wu, Qiu-cheng Li, Jie Wang and Yi Wang

Part II:  Engaging marginalized tourism stakeholders

5. Reimagining children’s participation: a child rights informed approach to social justice in tourism

Antonia Canosa and Anne Graham

6. Tourism and refugee-crisis intersections: co-creating tour guide experiences in Leeds, England

Elisa Burrai, Dorina-Maria Buda and Emily Stevenson

7. Seeking justice beyond the platform economy: migrant workers navigating precarious lives

Tyler Riordan, Richard N.S. Robinson and Gerhard Hoffstaedter

Part III: Tools and processes that build (in)justice in tourism

8. Do international sanctions help or inhibit justice and sustainability in tourism?

Siamak Seyfi, Colin Michael Hall, Jarkko Saarinen and Tan Vo-Thanh

9. Tourism policies and inclusive development: the case of Kenya and Rwanda

Christine N. Buzinde and Tanner Caterina-Knorr

10. Tourism policy, spatial justice and COVID-19: lessons from a tourist-historic city

Brendan Paddison and Jenny Hall

Part IV: Confronting crises, building justice and transitioning tourism

11. The poor on the road: qiongyou as a collective resistance and justice tourism

Yimeng Yang

12. Tourism, compounding crises, and struggles for sovereignty

Carter A. Hunt, María José Barragán-Paladines, Juan Carlos Izurieta and Andrés Ordóñez L

13.  Decolonising tourism and development: from orphanage tourism to community empowerment in Cambodia

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Regina A. Scheyvens and Bhanu Bhatia

14. Rethinking the space of tourism, its power-geometries, and spatial justice

Lucia Tomassini and Ian Lamond

Biography

Raymond Rastegar is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel management, Griffith University. He holds a PhD in Tourism Management and his scholarly interest and expertise lie in the fields of justice, sustainability transitions and environmental conservation. His research delivered new insights into the tourism phenomenon to advocate a more just and sustainable tourism future for humans and nonhumans.

 Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Business Unit at the University of South Australia; Adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Recreation and Leisure, University of Waterloo, Canada; and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism at the Taylor’s University of Malaysia. Her work focuses on social justice, human rights and sustainability issues in tourism.

 Lisa Ruhanen is Professor and Deputy Head of School at the University of Queensland Business School, Brisbane, Australia. She has been involved in almost 30 academic and consultancy research projects in Australia and overseas. Her research areas include sustainable tourism destination policy and planning, climate change and Indigenous tourism.