Elgar Companion to Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals

Edited by Karla A. Boluk, Associate Professor, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Adjunct, Business Unit, Adelaide University, Australia; Visiting Professor, Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism, Taylor's University of Malaysia, Malaysia and Mahshad Akhoundoghli, PhD student, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada

‘This Elgar Companion provides thought-provoking reflections on the tourism-UN’s SDGs debate. It does so by highlighting ideological flaws and structural hindrances while advocating for long-needed paradigm shifts. The Elgar Companion features studies on the UN’s SDGs from leading and emerging tourism scholars and represents a timely collection for anyone interested in tourism and development studies.’

• Contents:Preface: reflections on writing during competing crises xvi1 Introduction: the SDGs and tourism during a polycrisis 1Karla Boluk, Freya Higgins Desbiolles, and Mahshad AkhoundoghliSECTION I CRITICAL TOURISM SCHOLARSHIP2 A critical analysis of the United Nations sustainable development goals 18Sarah NR Wijesinghe and Freya Higgins-Desbiolles3 A review of Agenda 2030 critiques and the role of tourism in making progress 30Fizah Rajani, and Karla A BolukSECTION II ADVOCACY FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION4 Decolonisation, tourism, and progressing the SDGS 45Victor Mawutor Agbo and Bryan Grimwood5 Leaving some behind! Queering authenticity in tourism: a qualitativeinquiry on travel experiences of sexual and gender identity minorities 68Emir Ozeren (PhD), Havva Çıvgın, and Derya Altun (PhD)6 Youth, tourism, and the SDGs: co-creating narratives of change 90Antonia Canosa, Sandro Carnicelli, and Karla Boluk7 An analysis of barriers faced by women tourism entrepreneurs inBarcelona: employing a feminist ethic of care 102Daniela Freund, Itziar Ramírez García, and Karla Boluk8 Gender, tourism and the gig economy 120Duygu Salman and Fiona Eva Bakas9 Gender and social entrepreneurship: a case study in collaborations formore equitable and sustainable development 140Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Manjit Monga, Sarah Gun, and Moira WereSECTION III DEGROWTH TOURISM: ETHICAL CONSUMPTION,PRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION10 Rethinking tourism transformation for the sustainable developmentgoals through buen vivir 161Natasha Chassagne and Phoebe Everingham11 Contributing to SDG12 by making tourism consumption and productionmore environmentally sustainable 177Sarah MacInnes and Sara Dolnicar12 Gender equity and women tourism social entrepreneurs 193Gaurav Panse and Karla Boluk13 Food and sustainability: critical reflections on food, tourism and the SDGs 211Tracy Berno14 Building a case for social enterprise to mobilise the SDGs in tourism:Venezia autentica 231Jessica Hadjis van Thiel, Finnigan Hine, Karla A Boluk, and Brendan Paddison15 Is Gen Z a pro-SDG generation? A critical review and reflection 247Siamak Seyfi and C Michael HallSECTION IV GOVERNANCE, PLANNING, AND MOBILISATION FOR JUSTICE16 Tourism governance towards sustainability: a review anda metagovernance model 259S Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Mingzhuo Wang, Neethiahnanthan Ari Ragavan,and Jean-Pierre Poulain17 Tourism development, educational attainment and the achievement ofsustainable development goals in the West Coast of Tasmania 283Md Azmain Muhtasim Mir, Can-Seng Ooi, and Becky Shelley18 Vision-based partnership for regeneration ‒ unified vision as a basis forsustainable destination management framework 300Dr Kumi Kato19 Conclusion to Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals 313Karla Boluk, Freya Higgins Desbiolles, and Mahshad Akhoundoghli