The rise of regenerative hospitality

Journal of Responsible Tourism Management, 2023

Regenerative tourism has appeared as a buzzword but remains largely less understood as to its overall manifestation within different destinations and communities. This viewpoint coalesces existing knowledge about the rapidly evolving concept and denotes practical ways in which destinations can incorporate various stakeholder perspectives and levels of commitment and responsibility to bring desired outcomes to fruition. Importantly, the viewpoint emphasizes that regenerative tourism is not meant to be a one-size-fits-all phenomenon, but instead a baseline to bring together mutually agreeable goals and is predicated upon different groups working responsibly, where outcomes should be regularly monitored over time and place.

Journal of Sustainability and Resilience, 2021

Regenerative tourism understands that visitors and destinations are part of a living system embedded in the natural environment, and it operates under nature rules and principles. This transformative term is starting to change the understanding of tourism. The concept acknowledges the interconnectedness of various natural and social environments and is designed to give back to the land and the people. The newly coined concept includes the aspects of sustainable tourism niches. After the first wave of the global health crisis (Covid-19), we started to think about post-pandemic tourism. Now, we need to discuss with-pandemic tourism. Because of the pandemic, long haul travel is becoming harder and expensive. Restrictions on international travel and the absence of international tourism have provided us with an opportunity to rethink the future of tourism. It is argued that regenerative tourism offers much more and is moving beyond sustainable tourism. Because of the advancement of transport systems and their growing affordability, the frequency of travel increased and the twenty-first century has witnessed mass tourism globally. Tourism only exists when people travel, which was linked to fossil fuels, resulting in global warming and climate change from a mass tourism perspective. Hence, niche tourism such as eco-tourism, responsible tourism, social tourism, ethical tourism, volunteer tourism and community-based tourism emerged to negotiate a sustainable future of tourism. In parallel, other forms of tourism, such as slow tourism, were developed to mitigate mass tourism and contributed to economic development and global wellbeing. Many examples of slow and fast drivers of change have led to the emergence and evolution of both tourism production and consumption, and regenerative tourism is one of the many forms. The question is whether ‘Regenerative Tourism’ is the future of tourism or another slogan which rhymes well with the current global crisis? How it reflects the needs of tour operators and other tourism stakeholders in the long run? How it ensures long term sustainability and resilience of local communities? This volume invites authors and readers to discuss both academia and the industry, the expected impacts of new forms of tourism on people, places and processes at local and global scales.

Tourism Geographies

Calls for a new relationship between tourism and capitalism have intensified as a result of COVID-19. The pandemic has exposed massive vulnerabilities in the tourism operating system, the effects of which have fallen unevenly across different groups and subsectors of tourism. Critics have been quick to point out capitalism's emphasis on resource exploitation, growth and profit is to blame and that tourism destinations have never been encouraged to foster diverse economic practices which would enhance resilient communities and regenerative tourism. The diverse economies framework envisages the co-existence of capitalist, alternative capitalist and non-capitalist practices and provides a pathway to more resilient and regenerative tourism practices in tourism. Tourism industry cases are used to illustrate the innovation inherent in diverse economic practices (enterprise, exchange, labour, transactions, property etc.) and illustrate their natural resilience as a result. Post COVID-19, a regenerative tourism that incorporates diverse economic practices will guide tourism practices worldwide to withstand future exigencies. 摘要

Tourist Studies

Hospitality has often been conceived primarily as a supporting component of the tourism product. This commentary synthesises inter and multidisciplinary literature to examine alternative and more complex intersections of hospitality and tourism. It discusses four thematic areas of hospitality research: labour; the transformation of place (experiences); socio-material and socio-technological practice; and human encounters. It argues that applying hospitality as a sensitising concept in these domains of enquiry, and studying hospitality’s abstract and concrete dimensions, enhances our understanding of tourism as socio-economic phenomena and a global system, and helps to appreciate tourism’s implications for multiple stakeholders. Moreover, it proposes a range of questions for future research.

Journal of Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, 2023

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the transformation towards a regenerative tourism system based on a mindset change, communitarian and collaborative work. The study analyses the role of ecological hotels as agents of change. A qualitative design was used to analyse the relevance of hospitality environmental actions from the supply perspective as a driver for a regenerative development of tourism. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews with a total of 12 ecological accommodations. Results show that ecological accommodations have a big potential to be agents of change for regenerative tourism through their identity, their practices and their management and marketing. The paper argues that achieving a truly regenerative tourism model requires a shift both from the demand and supply side and a transformation of the current industrial operating model.

Socioecos 2024: Climate change, sustainability and socio-ecological practices, 2024

The large figures of economic and social value attributed to tourism have in their distribution a bias towards consolidated destinations and modalities (cities, sun, and beach...). On the other hand, rural areas, with a low incidence in the economic figures that support the supposed prosperity of the sector, are mostly outside the advantages (economic) and disadvantages (saturation, deterioration, contribution to global change) of traditional destinations. Echoing the potential of tourism in rural areas, we analyse the possibilities of regenerative tourism supported by protected areas. Among the emerging options, this proposal will investigate the potentially positive effect of experiential tourism, based on gastronomic heritage and agroecology. The application of the emerging regenerative proposal to tourism seeks an approach that takes it beyond the reviled sustainability, trying to actively contribute to the eco-social transition, restoring and revitalizing territories through a new approach to tourist use contemplated from an ecocentric perspective. Our paper analyses the theoretical bases that sustain regenerative tourism and anticipates a methodological proposal of analysis-action for territories, which natural and heritage values contain attractions susceptible to tourist use. The definition of the tourism model, its participatory planning and monitoring are proposed from a redesign that addresses the possible risks derived from conventional tourism and that faces the challenges of global change.

International Journal of Spa and Wellness, 2019

Sustainability

Digitalization, new work and leisure concepts and global challenges are transforming the way we live. More stakeholders, including residents and entrepreneurs, actively participate in the implementation of alternative socio-economic concepts; as such, entrepreneurial ecosystems are seen as drivers of regional development. The research still lacks holistic approaches to the application of ecosystems in tourism destinations. Hence, the objectives of this article are to capture research on entrepreneurial ecosystems in tourism and, specifically, to derive a holistic model that integrates destination and location management across stakeholders. This research utilizes the method of a systematic literature review, starting with 597 articles on ecosystems. Following four stages of exploring the literature, the results show that most articles have been published in rather isolated fields of smart tourism or quality of life aspects. Based on the rather qualitative review that reveals specifi...

Handbook of Research on Global Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2015

Learning organizations (LOs) have been identified as an innovative practice essential for global businesses to not only effectively compete in today's dynamic environment but also to achieve and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage and increase overall firm performance. The objective of this chapter is to examine the current body of knowledge on LOs and their impact on sustainability practices in an effort to identify what is being done by organizations, where knowledge is applied, and, how systems are created to influence sustainability practices. In the context of hospitality and tourism businesses, the literature examining LOs is limited though a wealth of studies have been conducted in the mainstream. Using a qualitative approach, a content analysis was conducted to investigate its impact on sustainability practices in hospitality and tourism organizations. The results indicate that destinations in particular have adopted this approach to compete globally and to address triple-bottom line sustainability.

The Paris Agreement signed by 195 countries and the European Union in December 2015 provides a global framework for mitigation and adaption strategies in face of climate change. The hospitality industry is hungry for resources, in particular energy, but also directly affected by changes in the environment À whether operating a ski resort in the Alps or a coastal retreat, whether a restaurant sourcing its food locally or organically, the effects of climate change are felt first-hand. Thus, the agreement has direct implications on the future of the industry. The authors argue that a new era of climate-adaptive hospitality is starting. The chapter is conceptual in nature. The author's assumption is that the construction of climate-conscious identity is caused by the public opinion on climate change on the one hand and climate-adaptive solutions that affect guest during their vacations, on the other hand. The development of a climate-consciousness among guests and employees is crucial to create a climate-adaptive hospitality industry. A definition for the concept of 'climate-adaptive innovation' is suggested.