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The landscape–tourism nexus has been the subject of many scientific contributions that differ in nature and methodological approach. Beyond sectorial planning assessments and impact evaluations, which often fail to grasp this complex relationship, this paper draws on conceptual frameworks in the social sciences and humanities that define the nexus through the productive potential of mobilities, bodily presences and interactions to investigate tourist landscapes in pandemic times. More precisely, the blended concept of dwelling-in-motion is adopted to explore tourist landscapes as evolving constellations of intertwined places and practices of people engaging with empty spaces, redescribing their functions and values and defining new forms of proximity tourism. This study focuses on the Brenta Riviera in northeastern Italy between Padua and Venice—an extremely dense area in terms of landscape stratifications and an exemplary local case where the effects of COVID-19 restrictions have been reshaping physical orderings, social relations and cultural meanings. During the third wave of the pandemic in Italy, a mapping process based on an online survey collected significant georeferenced landscapes among visitors, residents and operators, unveiling multiple and often unexpected Riviera landscapes as expressions of changing attitudes and behaviours towards neighbouring places. Calling for intimate well-being or collective involvement, ‘newcomers-on-the-move' have been blurring the lines between daily, recreational and tourist landscapes, leading to a reconsideration of who can be a tourist and what can be a tourist landscape in a (post-)COVID-19 world. From a tourism policy perspective, tracing these trajectories is one of the starting points for rethinking destination recovery and addressing sustainable goals. [ FROM AUTHOR]
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Purpose The investigation of the relationship between the future of humanity and the future of ecology is a pertinent issue. In this context, the study aimed to explore people's travel experience in the Himalayan region of India for transformation and well-being and how transformation induces their involvement in regenerative practices. The authors investigated if transformations contribute to the well-being of all living beings and the environment and induce involvement in regenerative practices? Design/methodology/approach The authors preferred qualitative research design and selected narrative inquiry as a research approach to bring individuals' life stories to the centre stage for examination. Accordingly, diachronic data was collected, and a paradigmatic type of narrative inquiry was applied that uses paradigmatic analytical procedures to produce thematic categories and taxonomies from the database. Findings Nine themes were identified and discussed in the light of existing literature. Transformational tourism promotes well-being and reduces mental health anomalies. The study participants used words like calm, compose, stress-free, and compassion, indicating enhanced consciousness. They also reported satisfaction and induced environmentally friendly behaviour after serving the community and environment at tourist destinations situated in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and the Union territory of Ladakh of the Himalayan region of India. Originality/value The paper collates evidence to establish a correlation between transformation and regeneration. There is a suggestion that transformative travel leads to participation in regenerative activities. The paper is based on people's experiences described as green workers of the Indian Himalayas and provides empirical conclusions that support the argument of transformational induced regenerative tourism.
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Purpose>The overarching aim of this project is to understand the role women tourism social entrepreneurs (TSEs) play in contributing to regenerative practices in Canada.Design/methodology/approach>Semi-structured interviews were carried out with women food TSEs with snowball sampling. This paper challenges the assumption that the masculine experience is the human experience. Accordingly, this research is informed by a feminist ethic of care lens to recognise the important role of Canadian women TSEs. Methodologically, the authors employed the strategies of a constructivist grounded theory to guide the analysis (Charmaz, 2011). This process involved carefully engaging in a close line by line reading of the transcripts, developing codes based on the authors’ dealings with the data including summarising, synthesising and sorting the data (Charmaz, 2011).Findings>The analysis revealed three categories: (1) Adopting a regenerative mindset and enhancing well-being, (2) Supporting the consumption of real food and (3) Educating communities for regenerative and just futures. The analysis revealed the importance of women TSEs in adopting a regenerative and caring mindset to enhance the well-being of their communities and beyond.Research limitations/implications>The study focusses on the learnings from 11 entrepreneurs from Canada. There is a scope to expand the discussion with more interviews. The impact of this pandemic on the small businesses resulted in affecting the researchers’ participation by presenting some unique challenges in participant recruitment. Maybe the studies in the near future will focus on grounding the research papers based on other sexual orientations and indigenous social entrepreneurs.Practical implications>The authors hope future studies centre diversity and attend to the role of women in their communities to better under the diverse contributions. The work presented here is part of a broader study on the role and impact of women TSEs and so only reveals the tip of the Canadian iceberg. Forthcoming studies will attend to some of the gender-specific barriers faced by women TSEs and the supports required particularly in the wake of COVID-19. The authors hope other scholars continue to build on this work, adopting feminist approaches to enhance our understanding of the role women play in contributing to just, caring and regenerative futures.Social implications>Contributing to Higgins-Desbiolles and Monga's (2021) in-depth case study using an ethic of care to examine an Australian events business supporting homeless individuals, the analysis of the 11 in-depth interviews with Canadian TSE provides evidence of alternative ways women are delivering social value. Using an ethic of care lens has elicited the impacts created by the informants and the ripple effects particularly in light of regenerative practices which are crucial in the tourism sector as borders and destinations reopen to tourism as noted by Ateljevic (2020).Originality/value>There are few studies in the tourism social entrepreneurship literature that recognise the agency and centres the vocies of women. Kimbu and Ngoasong (2016) made a call for more research to understand how women engage in social entrepreneurial activities and benefit their local communities. There are limited analyses on regenerative tourism in practice in the scholarly literature. To respond to this gap the authors examine the regenerative practices of women TSEs in Canada.
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Purpose>This paper display how “objectifying” forms of tourism can be converted into a more gender-equal regenerative tourism.Design/methodology/approach>The methodology generates shared understandings about the opportunities and challenges of implementing regenerative tourism by stimulating gender equality. The research design is based on qualitative research methods. Using a transformative tourism development process of the Karenni village Huay Pu Keng in Thailand, which is the first and only village that made this transition, the results of a process to stimulate the empowerment of women have been described.Findings>The desk research and conversations reported in the findings of this paper provide important insights in the social impacts in relation to gender equality and women empowerment. The community has become a role model for transformative tourism in relation to gender equality. Findings included that women are more involved in tourism activities, which has created a positive shift towards a gender balance. However, there is still a difference in education and participation between men and women. The study further reveals how tourism contributes to enliven the indigenous traditions and cultures and be a model for future developments in creating life-long meaningful experiences.Originality/value>Insights of the first and only Karenni village that made a transition to community-based tourism demonstrate how the community has been empowered. It improved the gender balance to make strategic decisions towards transforming their futures. Exploring this process is therefore valuable, as it contains knowledge that can be advantageous for other communities and research.
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Purpose>This case study urges the future of visitor economy to rely on regenerative tourism to make tourism systems resilience in the long run.Design/methodology/approach>The paper draws on published research and industry reports to discuss the future visitor economy and its impact on all dimensions of well-being focused on the case of Aotearoa New Zealand.Findings>Results show that post-pandemic tourism transformation must protect and promote local identities, and enhance and enrich visitor experiences with a focus on cultural and natural heritage.Originality/value>The recovery of tourism must not implement regenerative tourism as a new specific type of tourism but as a holistic understanding of tourism futures that encompasses communities and the environment, and where visitors are committed to preserve and protect our natural and socio-cultural environment.
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Purpose>This conceptual paper explores the possibility to envision circular regenerative processes embracing agrowth and placemaking within tourism;an industry remarkably connected to the Anthropocene and its detrimental impacts on the planet. Drawing on theorisations of circular economy, on the concept of agrowth, and on theories of placemaking, this viewpoint offers a novel conceptual framework to imagine a regenerative future for tourism.Design/methodology/approach>The authors connect the ancient archetype of “circularity”, largely used to make sense of life on Earth, with the Greek concept of oikonomia. The resulting notion of a circular oikonomia is then intersected with theories of placemaking. In doing so, the authors are driven by the idea of de-growth, as an “a-growthism” urging the abandonment of the faith towards growth for an enduring stable regenerative agrowth.Findings>The authors offer a novel conceptual framework to counteract the negative impacts of Anthropocene and envision future scenarios in which tourism can make a difference by enacting enduring regenerative processes for places and human and non-human entities.Originality/value>The originality of this study lies in the conceptual framework proposed to imagine the future of tourism, hospitality and mobilities in circular regenerative terms. This study envisions stable and enduring regenerative processes of natural assets, materials, products, services and resources as well as a tourism space made up of lively, multiple, transformative relationships and interactions among people and the environments people live in and travel to.
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Purpose>The paper provides a summary of the findings from GOOD Awaits – The Regenerative Tourism New Zealand (NZ) Podcast and envisions a regenerative future for tourism in Aotearoa.Design/methodology/approach>This paper is based on the findings from the GOOD Awaits Podcast, a series of interviews with pioneers and practitioners of regenerative tourism. The podcast was created as a platform for the collective discovery of a new way forward for tourism in the wake of COVID-19, and the series provides a detailed summary of the regenerative tourism movement in NZ.Findings>Through these interviews, a vision for a regenerative visitor economy in Aotearoa emerged. This new model is rooted in indigenous knowledge and living systems theory. It is a paradigm shift that allows us to see tourism as a living ecosystem and requires innovative economic models, such as social entrepreneurship, systems level changes to the way tourism operates and is governed, local tourism solutions with community thriving as the primary aim and much more collaboration both within tourism and across sectors.Originality/value>Regenerative tourism is an emerging model and one that is rapidly gaining traction in NZ and globally. The GOOD Awaits podcast is a unique, thoughtful and practical demonstration of what this model could look like in Aotearoa. It demonstrates the potential and feasibility of regenerative tourism practice, and the response has shown the desire for these conversations at a national and international scale. This paper is an accessible summary of the podcast's first season and has value for anyone interested in the regenerative tourism movement in Aotearoa.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created enormous pressure on the tourism and hospitality industries. In the post-COVID-19 era, destinations ought to attain the right balance between public security and economic recovery. Many destinations are trying to achieve this equilibrium by limiting international tourism and, instead, by targeting domestic tourists. Given that the future of tourism relies on the survival of the safest and smartest destinations, it is essential to work together on the recent advances in the sector. To this end, this research examines the current trends and practise by applying an explorative qualitative study design incorporated with data triangulation. The study findings point out two prevailing schools of thought, viz. the new normal and back to normal. The technological innovations support the ‘new normal’ waves, call for sustainability, rebuild current tourism to create a more sustainable form, and regenerate domestic and special interest tourism such as solo tourism. At the same time, the ‘back to normal’ philosophies are fuelled by the past global crises and the exceptional bouncy characteristics of the tourism sector to recover. However, both of these viewpoints are further direct towards the growing body of uncertainties, which can be unique to the COVID-19 pandemic, where predictions were found to be off beam. © 2021 Publishing India Group. All rights reserved.
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La pandemia del Covid-19 marcó un hito en la historia del turismo debido a que los procesos de globalización y compresión espacio-temporal que se habían registrado en los últimos 75 años, fueron suspendidos. Para diversos estudiosos, la desglobalización temporal ofrece una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre las propuestas de un desarrollo futuro del turismo más armónico, democrático y respetuoso de las sociedades anfitrionas y del medio ambiente. En este artículo se reflexiona en torno al turismo recreativo como una alternativa viable para el desarrollo del turismo en las ciudades y como una propuesta para salir de la crisis provocada por la pandemia. Para ello, se analizan algunos aspectos característicos del turismo recreativo desarrollados en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México antes y durante la pandemia. Para guiar el análisis, se recupera el planteamiento de Darbellay y Stock (2012) sobre el “giro recreativo” del turismo en las ciudades, así como las propuestas que apuntan al desarrollo del turismo creativo y regenerativo, en el cual los visitantes tienen experiencias culturales más activas y participativas, dando cabida a una relación más cercana entre visitantes y anfitriones.Alternate : The Covid-19 pandemic marks a milestone in the history of tourism due to the suspension of the processes of globalization and space-time compression witnessed over the last 75 years. Various scholars have grasped the opportunity offered by this temporary deglobalization to examine proposals for a more harmonious, democratic and respectful future development of tourism for the host societies and the environment. This article reflects on recreational tourism as a viable alternative for the development of tourism in cities and as a proposal to overcome the crisis caused by the pandemic. To this end, some characteristic aspects of recreational tourism developed in Mexico City’s historic centre before and during the pandemic are analyzed. The analysis is guided by Darbellay and Stock’s (2012) approach to the “recreational turn” of tourism in cities, and by proposals for developing creative and regenerative tourism, in which visitors have more active and participatory cultural experiences, allowing for a closer relationship between visitors and hosts.Alternate : La pandèmia del Covid-19 va marcar una fita en la història del turisme pel fet que els processos de globalització i compressió espaciotemporal que s’havien registrat en els últims 75 anys, van ser suspesos. Per a diversos estudiosos, la desglobalització temporal ofereix una oportunitat per a reflexionar sobre les propostes d’un desenvolupament futur del turisme més harmònic, democràtic i respectuós de les societats amfitriones i del medi ambient. En aquest article es reflexiona al voltant del turisme recreatiu com una alternativa viable per al desenvolupament del turisme a les ciutats i com una proposta per a eixir de la crisi provocada per la pandèmia. Per a això, s’analitzen alguns aspectes característics del turisme recreatiu desenvolupats en el Centre Històric de la Ciutat de Mèxic abans i durant la pandèmia. Per a guiar l’anàlisi, es recupera el plantejament de Darbellay i Stock (2012) sobre el “gir recreatiu” del turisme a les ciutats, així com les propostes que apunten al desenvolupament del turisme creatiu i regeneratiu, en el qual els visitants tenen experiències culturals més actives i participatives, donant cabuda a una relació més pròxima entre visitants i amfitrions.