Sustainability Transitions in Tourism and Hospitality

Sustainability Transitions in Tourism and Hospitality offers vital conceptual and practical insights into the domains of sustainability transitions in tourism and hospitality sectors, business models, and operations.

Using Sustainability Transitions (ST) theory, the book addresses the extent to which the tourism and hospitality industries drive the sustainability transition by revamping business models and practices to incorporate sustainability into their innovation strategy. The chapters are structured to examine these topics through sustainability transitions, which entails a comprehensive consideration of the state of knowledge, conceptual underpinning about sustainability transitions in tourism and hospitality, and current and alternative models and governance frameworks that support sustainability transitions. By doing so, it sheds light on how sustainability transitions in tourism and hospitality, by virtue of being multi-dimensional and multi-actor, are at the interface of political sciences, geography, sociological and behavioural sciences, technology and innovation studies. This is supported with case-based insights throughout. This timely volume advances the tourism and hospitality research agenda towards generating an in-depth understanding of the dynamics, processes and structures that shape the industry’s transition to more sustainable consumption and production systems.

This book will be of pivotal interest to students, researchers and academics of tourism, as well as development studies disciplines.