The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Indigenous Peoples

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 explores contemporary issues, challenges and trends. Organised into six sections, the handbook explores Indigenous community involvement in tourism, Indigenous entrepreneurship and innovation, Indigenous tourism policies and politics, and the complexities of colonialism and decolonisation issues. This text focuses on the active role that Indigenous peoples have in the industry and uses international case studies and experiences to explore the global context of Indigenous tourism.

This handbook fills a notable gap by offering a critical and detailed understanding of the role of Indigenous practitioners and societies in tourism and how they interact within the tourism nexus. It will be of interest to scholars, students, tourism practitioners and policymakers working in tourism, development studies, anthropology, human geography and sociology.

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.