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The Routledge Handbook on Regenerative Tourism and Hospitality

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The journey to this handbook began with a simple observation: despite ecades of sustainable tourism and hospitality initiatives, many places we love continue to degrade, many communities remain marginalized from tourism’s benefits, and the industry’s environmental footprint grows ever larger. To a certain extent, the promise of ‘sustainable tourism and ospitality’ has largely fallen short not because the concept itself is flawed, but because of how narrowly it has been implemented for the past few decades. We’ve essentially settled to do ‘less harm’ rather than doing actual good. A hotel that uses 20% less energy compared to the competitors is celebrated as ‘sustainable’, yet it remains fundamentally extractive, particularly if that energy is still sourced from coal‑fired power plants. We treat our physical and social environments like a patient in intensive care: keeping it stable but never actually healing it. With steady growth in travel globally and increasing affluence, maintaining the status quo through modest efficiency gains simply perpetuates an extractive model under a greener banner.

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Series Title

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Call Number

647 Rou-r

Publisher

Oxon : Routledge., 2027

Collation

463 p.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978‑1‑003‑59524‑3

Classification

647

Subject(s)

Regenerative tourism
Regenerative Hospitality

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