Envisioning Tourism in the Future

Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK and the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His most recent publications include the Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Indigenous Peoples (with Anna Carr, 2025) and The Tourism Area Life Cycle: Review, Relevance and Revision (Channel View Publications, 2024).

Contemporary tourism is in crisis. This fascinating collection introduces the nature and extent of that crisis, exploring a variety of issues and challenges, from climate change to destination management, and proposing potential responses to those challenges. Timely and cutting-edge, it is essential reading for anyone with a concern for a more sustainable future for tourism.

• Figures and TablesContributorsMemoriamAcknowledgementsRichard Butler: ProloguePart 1: Current Issues for the FutureChapter 1. Karl Wöber and Daniel R. Fesenmaier: The Future of and for TourismChapter 2. Stefan Gössling: Tourism is (in) a Crisis: Academia and Desirable FuturesPart 2: Potential Transformations, Current and FutureChapter 3. Mingming Cheng, Lingxue Zhan and Xiaoxi Yu: The Future of Social Media and its Impact on TourismChapter 4. Shinji Yamashita and Takae Tanaka: 'Online Tourism' as a Resilient Form of Tourism after Covid-19: Experiences in JapanChapter 5. Antónia Correia: Tourism Futures: A Transformative Cycle or a Turnaround Movement?Chapter 6. Chaozhi (Taylor) Zhang: Heritage as a Catalyst for Tourism Destination Transformation: An Innovation and Knowledge Spillover PerspectiveChapter 7. David A. Fennell and Jordan McNeillie: Ethical Guidelines for Animal Use in Tourism: New Perspectives and Future DirectionsPart 3: Managing Destinations in the FutureChapter 8. Vincent Wing Sun Tung: The Future of Tourism: A Multiphase, Multistakeholder PerspectiveChapter 9. Salvador Anton Clavé: Local Destinations and Global Transitions: Towards a Co-Evolutionary Policy Research ApproachChapter 10. Roger Carter: Future Governance of Tourism DestinationsChapter 11. Alan Fyall, Gaurav Panse, Sergio Alvarez and Arthur Huang: Operationalising Sustainability for a Mass Tourism Destination: Contextualised Factors and Evidence-Based Institutional PracticePart 4: Approaches to Changing TourismChapter 12. Tanja Mihalic: The Future of the Sustainable Tourism Paradigm: Navigating Transformative Forces and Expanding into Space and CyberspaceChapter 13. Janne Liburd: Co-Designing Regenerative Tourism FuturesChapter 14. Scott Cohen: Hypermobility and Climate Change: Towards a Just FutureChapter 15. Daniel Scott: Global Climate Change and the Future of Tourism DevelopmentPart 5: The Future: Uncertain Directions?Chapter 16. Norbert Vanhove: The Future of Tourism in a Changing Economic EnvironmentChapter 17. Bob McKercher: The New Normal or Same Old, Same OldChapter 18. Pauline Sheldon, Scott McCabe, Ulrike Gretzel, Larry Dwyer, David Simmons and Maria Gravari-Barbas: Setting an Agenda for the Transformation of TourismRichard Butler: EpilogueIndex