Tourism and Resilience
Resilience as a fundamental concern in tourism has been heightened as a result of crises of unimaginable magnitude during the past years. Recently coronaviruses and then the Russia-Ukraine war - both have momentarily superseded climate change, and the existential crisis of planetary breakdown has become entangled into crises of multiplicity. As deliberation rages about whether anthropogenic climate change can no longer be unwound resonates, much discussion is predicated on recovery and building back better. Notwithstanding, the anxiety about climate change and its interlinkages with resilience discourses has become unassailable. The former drives the latter and resilience is usually reduced to its most basic - developing adaptive capacities.
Yet, resilience is much more than simply adapting - it espouses system stability and staving off system failure, rather than willing systems to constantly adapt and cope with changes accelerated by economic growth.
This collection aims to leverage some of the key contributions that have served to shape tourism and resilience discourses thus far, and looks to integrate new contributions.
Key references include:
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Butler, R. W. (2017). Tourism and resilience. CABI
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Cheer, J. M., & Lew, A. A. (Eds.). (2017). Tourism, resilience and sustainability: Adapting to social, political and economic change. Routledge.
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Innerhofer, E., Fontanari, M., & Pechlaner, H. (Eds.). (2018). Destination resilience: Challenges and opportunities for destination management and governance. Routledge.
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Lew, A. A., & Cheer, J. M. (Eds.). (2017). Tourism resilience and adaptation to environmental change: Definitions and frameworks. Routledge.
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Hall, C. M., Prayag, G., & Amore, A. (2017). Tourism and resilience: Individual, organisational and destination perspectives. Channel View Publications.
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Saarinen, J., & Gill, A. M. (Eds.). (2019). Resilient destinations and tourism.