Table of Contents

Figures and Tables
Contributors
Dedication
Preface

Helena Norberg-Hodge: Foreword

vesper tjukonai: Local Roots

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby: Introduction
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Part 1: Theorising Local Communities in Tourism Anew

Chapter 1. Bobbie Chew Bigby, Joseph Edgar and Freya Higgins-Desbiolles: Place-based Governance in Tourism: Placing Local Communities at the Centre of Tourism
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Chapter 2. Lucia Tomassini and Elena Cavagnaro: Circular Oikonomia, Posthumanism and Local Space to Socialise Tourism

Chapter 3. Siamak Seyfi and C. Michael Hall: Travel Boycotts, Ethical Consumption and Destination Communities: Expanding the Morality of Neighbourliness

Chapter 4. Can-Seng Ooi: The Local Turn in Tourism: Place-based Realities, Dangers and Opportunities

Part 2: Case Studies of Local Community (Dis)/(Re)/Empowerment

Chapter 5. Antonia Canosa: Unheard Voices: Youth Activism for Social and Environmental Justice

Chapter 6. Mary Little: Enhanced Food Security Through Localised Community Cryptocurrency: Experiences of a Costa Rican Tourism Town

Chapter 7. Andrew Jones and Julian Zarb: An Ethnographical Study of Community Tourism: Seeking Alternative Tourism Options for Malta through 'Meet the Locals'

Part 3: Practitioners’ Views and Insights

Chapter 8. Signe Jungersted: Localhood

Case Study: Transforming Relations Between DMOs and Communities

Chapter 9. Tara Winkler: The Story of Cambodian Children’s Trust: Evolving Development Practice From ‘Doing For’ Communities To ‘Doing With’ Communities

Case Study in Practice of Working with Communities

Chapter 10. Bobbie Chew Bigby and Michelle Brown-Burdex: The Neighbourhood where History, Community, Tourism and Truth-Telling Meet: A Tourism Practitioner Case Study from the Greenwood Cultural Center of Tulsa, Oklahoma

Part 4: Imagining New Futures

Chapter 11. Nora Müller, Robert Fletcher and Macià Blázquez-Salom: Convivial Tourism in Proximity

Chapter 12. Phoebe Everingham and Sinéad Francis-Coan: Towards a 'More-than-Tourism' Perspective for Localising Tourism

Chapter 13. Alexander Araya López: Reclaiming the City: Social Movements and the Local Impacts of the Global Tourism Industry

Chapter 14. Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby: Conclusion: What is to be Done?

Index

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Addresses the importance of the local turn in tourism in the post-Covid tourism landscape

About the Author

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UniSA Business, University of South Australia. Her research interests are justice, human rights and sustainability in tourism, and her specific research focus includes tourism politics, Indigenous tourism and tourism planning.

Bobbie Chew Bigby is a PhD scholar at the Nulungu Research Institute in Broome, University of Notre Dame Australia. Her research interests include Indigenous-led tourism, Indigenous resurgence, culture and language revitalisation and peace studies.

Reviews

This revolutionary text provokes us to a critical and necessarily urgent refocusing of tourism that foregrounds the local in all its forms (humans, more than humans, and the ecology). Replete with counter-narratives, alternative visions, and practical actions, this book is a triumph in its unapologetic advocacy for tourism futures that are more just and inclusive.
*Donna Chambers, University of Sunderland, UK*

This timely book provides a tangible way forward for transforming tourism at a time when both global and local pressures unequivocally signal that the pre-COVID-19 tourism model has failed. It points to a pathway where locals’ love and care for place become the foundations of sustainable tourism. This book won’t fail to inspire readers of all types – academia, policymakers, industry, non-profits and the wider public.
*Susanne Becken, Griffith University, Australia*

Rethinking and reforming tourism through a local, community-centered turn is long overdue, but how do we go about it in practice? In this innovative collection featuring scholars and practitioners from around the world, Higgins-Desbiolles and Bigby offer us a detailed agenda for transforming the way we conduct tourism.
*Julian Agyeman, Tufts University, USA*