Fredrik Hoppstadius is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Karlstad University, Sweden, and Programme Director for the Tourism and Place Design programme. His research explores the intersections between tourism, landscape and posthuman design, with a particular focus on mobility, rurality and sustainability.Mekonnen Tesfahuney is Professor of Human Geography at Karlstad University, Sweden. His work engages with postcolonial theory, critical geopolitics and mobility studies. He has published extensively on global migration, tourism and the politics of difference.Ulrika Åkerlund is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Karlstad University, Sweden. Her research focusses on tourism planning, regional development, crisis and resilience management and everyday life practices in Nordic and European contexts. She has led several research projects on migration and rural change.

• Introduction – Tourism, Place & Design. 1. Tourism: System Design for Sustainable Experiences? 2. Naming and/or Doing Place Design: Paradoxes of Spatial Planning 3. Design as Reflective and Participatory Processes. 4.The Tourist Gaze and Place Design. 5.Designing Places Through In-Depth Place-Interviewing. 6.Designing the Rural. 7. Gastronomic Mobility and Place Design: The Role of Appetisers in Tourism. 8.Not by (Human) Design Alone: More-Than-Tourism Landscapes in Sweden and Singapore. 9. Place Inclusion/Exclusion in Overtourism. 10.Conducting Sensitive Digital Place Design. 11. Game and Play in Designing Places in VR—A Theoretical Approach to VR Tourism Emergence. 12. AI in the Development of Tourism Experiences. 13. Coda.