Justice in Tourism Destinations

This innovative and timely book critically explores and demonstrates how both the tourism system and tourism destinations can adapt and act to mitigate, avoid, or solve injustices in destinations.

Autorentext

Pooneh Torabian is a lecturer at the Department of Tourism, Otago Business School, University of Otago, New Zealand. She has a PhD in recreation and leisure studies from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Pooneh uses an interdisciplinary lens to study how intersections of identities such as gender, class, and race shape international mobilities. She is interested in the notions of dual citizenship and freedom of movement and their implications for crossing international borders. More recently, she has started research projects where she explores how arts can help the marginalised communities with resettlement, home-making, and integration.

Julia N. Albrecht is an associate professor at the Department of Tourism, Otago Business School, University of Otago, New Zealand. With her academic background in geography and landscape ecology, political studies, and tourism, Julia is interested in tourism and destination management for sustainable tourism, tourism strategy and planning, visitor management, and nature-based tourism. Julia publishes her work in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Management, and Annals of Tourism Research, among others. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism and she serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research.

Inhalt

1 Introduction PART 1 Injustices in tourism destinations 2 Justice in dark/ thanatourism: Three cases from the state of Iowa (USA) 3 'Waiheke is a community, not a commodity': Residents' rights and kaitiakitanga in tourism 'hot-spots' 4 Animal justice in tourism: Exploring the gull-tourism seaside nexus PART 2 How injustices create contested spaces 5 Migrants' experiences of Othering in cross-border travel 6 Spatial justice in the tourist-historic city: Reimagining policy-making and governance in times of crisis 7 Milford Opportunities Project: Re-envisioning a tourist icon 8 Justice in tourism destination governance: Current knowledge and future research directions