The end of tourism? contemplations of collapse
Date
2024
Authors
Higgins Desbiolles, F.
Editors
Advisors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Type:
Journal article
Citation
Journal of Tourism Futures, 2024; 10(3):476-485
Statement of Responsibility
Conference Name
Abstract
Purpose: This viewpoint engages with Jem Bendell’s deep adaptation framework which was developed as a response to the threat of collapse. Proponents of deep adaptation argue that societal collapse is either likely, inevitable or already underway. The deep adaptation framework is employed as a tool to contemplate the necessary adaptation of tourism development and planning in a context of polycrisis leading to collapse.
Design/methodology/approach: This is a conceptual viewpoint article that is built on deductive analysis of recent events, reports and scientific findings. It employs the deep adaptation framework to analyse possible alternative tourism futures in the face of the threat of collapse.
Findings: Bendell’s framework included four aspects of response to the recognition of the threat of collapse: resilience, relinquishment, restoration and reconciliation. In this work, the deep adaptation framework is employed to analyse what a deep adaptation approach to tourism might offer for efforts in securing optimal social and ecological outcomes. Findings highlight damaging activities that we should relinquish, more resilient approaches that communities could encourage and restorative practices such as rewilding and pluriversal economies as protective measures. This work recommends a precautionary approach to transform tourism education, research and practice in order to secure better tourism futures.
Originality/value: This work is novel in engaging with the threat of future collapse and in using the deep adaptation framework to consider alternative tourism futures.
School/Discipline
Dissertation Note
Provenance
Description
Access Status
Rights
Copyright 2024 Freya Higgins-Desbiolles. (http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode)
Access Condition Notes: This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes),subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors.