This prescient book explores the potential of tourism and hospitality to address social challenges. Featuring theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions from leading scholars, it reveals how different stakeholders within the tourism and hospitality ecosystem can create value and benefit humanity in diverse ways.Confronting traditional views of tourism and hospitality as a purely commercial activity, the book shifts attention to its more positive social and environmental outcomes. Chapters examine the role of tourism and hospitality as a path for tackling global and societal issues, from climate change and the refugee crisis to loneliness and ageing populations. They draw on interdisciplinary perspectives across a range of sectors, critically analysing the opportunities and complexities of leveraging tourism and hospitality as a force for good for vulnerable groups including older people, refugees, hospital patients, children and marginalized groups who are suffering from poverty. Ultimately, this incisive book presents an innovative approach to the study and practice of tourism and hospitality, rethinking dominant paradigms and underscoring the transformative power of the industry.Students and academics in tourism and hospitality will benefit from the cutting-edge insights in this book. It is also a valuable resource for policy makers, educators, and practitioners interested in using tourism and hospitality as a driver of wellbeing and welfare in society.
