Local Turn in Tourism

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UniSA Business, University of South Australia. Her research interests are justice, human rights and sustainability in tourism, and her specific research focus includes tourism politics, Indigenous tourism and tourism planning.Bobbie Chew Bigby is a PhD scholar at the Nulungu Research Institute in Broome, University of Notre Dame Australia. Her research interests include Indigenous-led tourism, Indigenous resurgence, culture and language revitalisation and peace studies.

This revolutionary text provokes us to a critical and necessarily urgent refocusing of tourism that foregrounds the local in all its forms (humans, more than humans, and the ecology). Replete with counter-narratives, alternative visions, and practical actions, this book is a triumph in its unapologetic advocacy for tourism futures that are more just and inclusive.

• Figures and TablesContributorsDedicationPrefaceHelena Norberg-Hodge: Forewordvesper tjukonai: Local RootsFreya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby: IntroductionThis chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/record/7234710#.Y1Kd8nbMLcs Part 1: Theorising Local Communities in Tourism AnewChapter 1. Bobbie Chew Bigby, Joseph Edgar and Freya Higgins-Desbiolles: Place-based Governance in Tourism: Placing Local Communities at the Centre of TourismThis chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/record/7234717#.Y1KpinbMLcsChapter 2. Lucia Tomassini and Elena Cavagnaro: Circular Oikonomia, Posthumanism and Local Space to Socialise TourismChapter 3. Siamak Seyfi and C. Michael Hall: Travel Boycotts, Ethical Consumption and Destination Communities: Expanding the Morality of NeighbourlinessChapter 4. Can-Seng Ooi: The Local Turn in Tourism: Place-based Realities, Dangers and OpportunitiesPart 2: Case Studies of Local Community (Dis)/(Re)/EmpowermentChapter 5. Antonia Canosa: Unheard Voices: Youth Activism for Social and Environmental JusticeChapter 6. Mary Little: Enhanced Food Security Through Localised Community Cryptocurrency: Experiences of a Costa Rican Tourism TownChapter 7. Andrew Jones and Julian Zarb: An Ethnographical Study of Community Tourism: Seeking Alternative Tourism Options for Malta through 'Meet the Locals'Part 3: Practitioners’ Views and InsightsChapter 8. Signe Jungersted: LocalhoodCase Study: Transforming Relations Between DMOs and CommunitiesChapter 9. Tara Winkler: The Story of Cambodian Children’s Trust: Evolving Development Practice From ‘Doing For’ Communities To ‘Doing With’ CommunitiesCase Study in Practice of Working with CommunitiesChapter 10. Bobbie Chew Bigby and Michelle Brown-Burdex: The Neighbourhood where History, Community, Tourism and Truth-Telling Meet: A Tourism Practitioner Case Study from the Greenwood Cultural Center of Tulsa, OklahomaPart 4: Imagining New FuturesChapter 11. Nora Müller, Robert Fletcher and Macià Blázquez-Salom: Convivial Tourism in ProximityChapter 12. Phoebe Everingham and Sinéad Francis-Coan: Towards a 'More-than-Tourism' Perspective for Localising TourismChapter 13. Alexander Araya López: Reclaiming the City: Social Movements and the Local Impacts of the Global Tourism IndustryChapter 14. Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby: Conclusion: What is to be Done?Index