[Webinar] Tourism, sustainability and de-growth
公開日 2020.09.09
Center for Tourism Research (CTR), Wakayama University hosts webinar series from Japan inviting prominent tourism scholars around the world.
Following the success of the past two seminars, Dr. Richard Sharpley (Distinguished University Professor of Wakayama University / Professor of University of Central Lancashire, UK) will argue de-growth in sustainable tourism and development highlighting ‘overtourism’.
Also, this webinar is an early acknowledgement of World Tourism Day on 27 September, where as a result of COVID-19, an opportunity to rethink the future of the tourism sector is clear, including how it contributes to the sustainable development goals, through its social, cultural, political, and economic value.
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Theme
Wakayama-CTR Webinar Series 2020
Tourism, Sustainability and Recovery: Asia Pacific Expert Outlook
Vol.3 ‘Tourism, sustainability and de-growth’
Overview
Sustainable tourism development has remained a dominant paradigm within tourism academic and policy circles for more than thirty years. Aligning tourism with the principles of sustainable development (and most recently, the Sustainable Development Goals), it proposes means of developing tourism that, in principle, contribute to the sustainable development of destination areas. In practice, however, the opposite has occurred. Not only have international arrivals continued to grow exponentially, resulting in excessive (unsustainable) dependency on tourism and wider environmental impacts, but also many destinations now suffer from so-called ‘overtourism’. Whilst many consider this to be a problem that can be managed by conventional means, this webinar will propose that overtourism is in fact a symptom of a wider problem: the continuing drive for growth both in tourism in particular and in development policy more generally. Highlighting the contradictory (and illogical) focus on economic growth underpinning contemporary sustainable development policies – and evidence of the ‘social recession’ that subsequently occurs – the webinar will discuss the extent to which not only the relationship between tourism and development should be appraised but also, in the context of climate change and other environmental challenges, how the concept of de-growth might be effectively operationalised in the global tourism context.
Date
Wednesday, September 16
Time
7:00~8:00PM (JST, GMT+9)
Venue
Zoom Webinar (online)
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Presenter
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Dr. Richard Sharpley (Distinguished University Professor, Wakayama University / Professor, University of Central Lancashire, UK)
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Panelist
Dr. Muchazondida Mkono (Lecturer in Tourism Management, Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia)
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Moderator
Dr. Joseph M. Cheer (Professor, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan)
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Organizer
Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University
Supporters
UNWTO Regional Support Office for Asia and the Pacific
Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)
Kansai Tourism Bureau
Contact
Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University
Sakaedani 930, Wakayama-city 640-8510, JAPAN
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