Tourism and Sustainability Global Challenges and Local Experiences in Southeast Sweden

Part I. Setting the Scene 

1. Introduction to Tourism and Sustainability: Global Challenges and Local Experiences in a Regional Context 

Solène Prince, Per Pettersson Löfquist, Christina Öberg and Marianna Strzelecka

2. Interdisciplinarity in Tourism and Sustainability Research 

C. Michael Hall and Sara Naderi Koupaei

Part II. Socio-economic Sustainability

3. Art Entrepreneuring and Rural Tourism Events: Insights from Art Tours in Småland and on Öland

Alina Husung, Per Pettersson-Löfquist and Stephan Reinhold

Part III. Innovation and Branding

4. Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Branding and Consumptionscapes of Micro-cultural Enterprises in Småland

Soniya Billore and Clarinda Jansberg

5. Exploring the Intersection between Sensory Cues and the Visual Communication of Sustainability on Öland: A Visual Content Analysis

Miralem Helmefalk

6. Sustainability in the Local Tourism Sharing Economy

Christina Öberg

Part IV. Tourist Places, Nature, and Natural Resources 

7. Placemaking and Sustainability in Destination Development: The Case of Destination Åsnen 

Solène Prince, Merle Behr, Karin Nilsson and Therese Nix

8. Experiences of (In)justice in Water Governance on an Island Destination: Perspectives from Stakeholders on Öland

Christer Foghagen, Stina Alriksson, Shiva Ghorban Nejad, Lena Eckert and Marianna Strzelecka

9. Hospitality Theory and the Real World: An Autoethnographic Account of Academic Entrepreneurship

Stefan Gössling

Part V. Zooming Out: The Future and the Planet

10. Heritage Processes, Heritage Tourism and Sustainable Futures Making: A Case Study from the City of Kalmar

Anders Högberg and Ulrika Söderström

11. Earth-surface Tourism and the Planetary Climate and Ecological Breakdown

Martin Gren

12. Afterword: Reflections on interdisciplinarity, place and the future

Solène Prince

Biography

Solène Prince is Associate Professor in Tourism Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research interests span across tourism geographies. Her publications feature in Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Geographies and Landscape Research. She is associate editor at Tourism Geographies and Island Studies Journal. Her current research projects touch upon tourist perceptions and rural space in renewable energy transitions in the context of Sweden.

Marianna Strzelecka is Associate Professor in Tourism Studies at the School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her work draws on political science, sociology, and environmental psychology to explore socio-cultural aspects of human–nature relationships within leisure and tourism at both community and individual levels. She is published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Annals of Tourism Research and Journal of Environmental Psychology.

Christina Öberg is Professor/Chair in Marketing and International Business at Linnaeus University, Sweden. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of Exeter. Her research interests include new ways to pursue business, including the sharing economy. She is the Chair of the Nordic Academy of Management. She has published in Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Entrepreneurship, and Regional Development, Information Technology & People, Production Planning & Control, and Journal of Product Innovation Management.