A research agenda for just tourism futures / edited by Raymond Rastegar (Department of Tourism and Marketing, Griffith University, Australia) and Siamak Seyfi (associate professor, Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rastegar, Raymond, editor.

Seyfi, Siamak, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar research agendas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Social aspects.

Tourism.

Tourism--Environmental aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This forward-thinking Research Agenda explores what it means to place justice at the heart of tourism, treating it not as a settled goal but as a shifting and contested practice. Through contributions from leading and emerging scholars across the global north and global south, this Research Agenda brings together diverse perspectives on justice in tourism, interrogating how it operates across gender, mobility, climate, conservation, urban resistance, and political struggle. Contributions expose how dominant tourism systems, driven by neoliberal growth logics, technocratic governance, and anthropocentric ideologies, reinforce historical and structural injustices, while also highlighting how feminist, ecological, and more-than-human perspectives unsettle these narratives and open space for resistance, solidarity, and alternative futures. Rather than offering universal solutions, the book maps critical directions for research and practice, positioning tourism as a site of both (in)justice and possibility. It invites readers to reimagine tourism not only as an economic activity, but as a terrain of struggle where more equitable, regenerative, and liveable futures might be pursued. A vital resource for students and academics in tourism, environmental and climate justice, sociology, and development studies, A Research Agenda for Just Tourism Futures is also essential for policymakers, practitioners, and activists seeking to confront tourism's harms and imagine more just alternatives"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword

1. Introduction: Reclaiming justice in tourism: Critical foundations and unsettled futures / Raymond Rastegar and Siamak Seyfi

Part I: Theoretical foundations and frameworks for just tourism

2. Justice in tourism and hospitality: A review and future research directions / Reza Shafei, Salar Kuhzady and Arya Yazdani

3. A multilayered framework for a just sustainability transition in tourism / Nima Soltani Nejad, Fatemeh Taheri-Azad and Raymond Rastegar

4. Conceptualising and scaffolding the diversity and inclusion bogeyman / Sumeetra Ramakrishnan

Part II: Gender, mobility, and the boundaries of justice

5. No men allowed: Women-only parks and gendered leisure spaces in Iran: Justice for women or legitimacy for the state? / Abolfazl Siyamiyan Gorji, Seyedasaad Hosseini, Carmen Cortés Zaborras and Fernando Almeida-García

6. Women, tourism enterprises, and regenerative climate justice: Relationships and consequences / Seyedasaad Hosseini, Abolfazl Siyamiyan Gorji, Carmen Cortés Zaborras and Rafael Cortés Macías

7. Solo travel as rite of passage: A conceptual model of migrant women's identity transformation / Zara Zarezadeh

8. Who wins, who speaks? Exploring gendered views of social justice in tourism development / S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Raymond Rastegar and Siamak Seyfi

Part III: Climate, conservation, and tourism in a changing world

9. Structural issues of biodiversity in tourism and climate justice / Yi Bian, James Higham, Lisa Ellis, and Brendan Mackey

10. Dark-sky tourism: Engaging stakeholders in climate change conservation through leisure and tourism in national parks / Brendan Paddison and Jenny Hall

11. Equity of access to natural protected areas in urban planning: Implications for just tourism / Minoo Esfehani and Abrar Feisal

Part IV: Political struggle, urban resistance, and justice claims in tourism

12. Justice tourism: The emotional and behavioural responses of visitors to the segregation wall and Banksy's walled off hotel / Rami K. Isaac

13. Tourism boycotts and the struggle for justice: Ethics, absence, and the politics of solidarity / Siamak Seyfi and C. Michael Hall

14. Destination for whom? Overtourism, neoliberal governance, and the struggle for justice in Málaga / Abolfazl Siyamiyan Gorji, Seyedasaad Hosseini, Pere Mercadé-Melé and José Damián Toboso Gómez

15. Bursting the tourist bubble: Advocating for a just and more inclusive urbanity in the twenty-first-century city / Alberto Amore

16. Conclusion: Rethinking justice through and beyond tourism / Siamak Seyfi and Raymond Rastegar.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035346172 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.