Sustainable tourism development has been an imperative for global tourism for the last 20 years. However, the recent challenges in the tourism sector, including COVID-19, natural disasters, financial instability, and political turmoil, have challenged the development and shifted focus to other areas. For instance, resilience has become a crucial concept in the tourism field. The idea of resilience originated from Holling's (1973) study of ecological systems, which investigated the ability of natural systems to withstand disturbances caused by either natural or human factors.
In a tourism context, resilience describes the adaptive capacity of destinations to recover from stressors, disturbances, or disasters of organizations and societies. There are, however, clear connections between sustainability and resilience as both concepts deal with change. Sustainability commonly deals with change based on conservation, while resilience deals with change based on adaptation and transformation. In this satellite event, we address resilience on several different levels in the tourism system
Inclusive tourism has emerged as an important issue to address issues of sustainability and resilience. To enhance inclusive tourism, marginalised groups need to be included both as producers of tourism products for others to experience as well as the possibility to be a tourist themselves. However, to be inclusive entails a broad range of perspectives that need to be addressed to incorporate different groups for sustainable tourism development. The discussion is illustrated with examples from different actors, groups, and places.
In this satellite event, participants present and discuss key challenges for sustainable development and avenues to go forward by drawing from examples from both the global south and north. Another goal of the event is to find new forms of collaboration.
The aim of the satellite event is to establish research and teaching collaboration between the Department of Tourism, the University of Johannesburg, and the Department of Service Studies and the Department of Strategic Communication, both Lund University. Particular attention will be given to sustainable tourism development, including inclusive and resilient approaches in urban contexts.
Room C324, Lund University, Campus Helsingborg
13th of May 9:00 - 12:00
Lund University, Campus Helsingborg in C324 and digitally via zoom ( for zoom link contact maria.mansson@isk.lu.se)
- Opening and introduction of theme – Maria Månsson and Jörgen Eksell (Lund university)
- Parisa Setoodegan (ETOUR) - Navigating inclusive domestic tourism: interfaces of immigrants and outdoors
- Sayaka Törngren (Malmö University) & Helena Kraff (Gothenburg University) - Conceptualising Inclusive Tourism
- Danie Marias, NCPD, South Africa - Universal design and access in the Soth African context within the tourism sector
- Elisabeth Högdahl, Lund University - From memory to place – on immaterial value in place development
Break (15 min)
- Lusine Margaryan, ETOUR
- Nicola Wakelin-Theron, University of Johannesburg - Inclusive tourism to foster resilience in a hotel setting
- Sara Licata, Lund University - Networking for inclusion: the role of place and networks in tourism mobilities of local ‘foreign’ communities
- Maria Månsson & Jörgen Eksell, Lund University - Advancing a tourist perspective in inclusive place branding: Anticipated constraints of domestic tourists with a foreign background
- Reflection and discussion about research collaboration
This satellite event relates to several of the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), for instance, Goal 10, Reduced inequality; Goal 12, Sustainable Cities and Communities; and 13, Responsible Production and Consumption.
Keywords:
Sustainability, sustainable tourism development, inclusive tourism, resilience in tourism, urban contexts
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