<i>‘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.’</i>
- Alberto Amore, University of Oulu, Finland,
<i>‘This politically engaged collection provides an original appraisal of progress made by tourism towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals, while inviting us to interrogate the meaning of sustainable tourism in the light of the constitutive ideologies and power structures which influence the application of the SDGs in a range of different tourism contexts. This timely book will be essential reading for anyone seeking a robust and critical understanding of the relationship between tourism and the SDGs as well as providing inspiration for all those committed to developing transformative strategies for just and sustainable tourism futures.’</i>
- Raoul Bianchi, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK,
Paying particular attention to the impact of tourism in a polycrisis era the Companion critically analyses how tourism may progress the SDGs alongside the requirements of the 2030 agenda framework, and/or how SDG progress may be stifled given various crises. Using global case studies, contributing authors provide insightful solutions to the challenges of implementing sustainability agendas.
The Elgar Companion to Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals provides an excellent reference for scholars studying tourism and hospitality, environmental studies and government and political studies. Policy makers will also find the expert guidance contained within this Companion to be a useful resource for their day-to-day practices.