Sustainable Tourism: Frameworks, Practices, and Innovative Solutions

This edited volume aims to ignite an academic discussion regarding necessary, and urgent, adaption and mitigation strategies for the tourism industry. Now more than ever, there is a need for designing and implementing concrete strategies for a world in which tourism practices are sustainability-minded, not only to rescue this key industry from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also to limit the effects that it has on pollution, climate change, and at-risk populations. Achieving this goal will require innovations that can help us synchronously adapt to committed change as well as shift our planning processes and alter our behaviours.

Including contributions from international experts in the fields of tourism management, economics, political science, finance, business, and sustainability, this book provides much-needed research on sustainable tourism by evaluating current and future trends, global contributions, case studies and new research evaluating issuessuch as over-tourism and under-tourism, as well as the general effects that tourism have on a region’s economy, environment, culture, and society. In addition, it will explore how sustainable tourism can help alleviate, mitigate, or control these problems.

This book aims to provide insight into how we can still enjoy and benefit from touristic travel while implementing appropriate strategies and adaptation plans in the areas of health, culture, the economy, and the environment and showcase investigations of alternative tourism frameworks and tourist perspectives. It will be of great interest to academic and practitioner communities in business and policy, as well as economics, tourism management, development studies, finance, cultural heritage management, policymaking and entrepreneurship.

Thomas Walker is a Professor of Finance at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada, as well as Director of the Jacques Menard/BMO Center for Capital Markets Research and the Concordia University Research Chair in Emerging Risk Management.

Ender Demir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration, School of Social Sciences, Reykjavik University, Iceland. His fields of research include corporate finance, financial economies and hospitality financial management.

Gabrielle Kathleen Machnik-Kekesi is a Research Associate at the Emerging Risks information Centre at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, Canada. She has work experience in editing, conference planning, and grant writing and has previously worked as managing editor for the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.

Victoria Kelly is a Research Associate at the Emerging Risks Information Centre, Concordia University, Canada. Her research interests include sustainability and climate change management.