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Podcast: Tourism Geographies Podcast
Episode: Urban tourism transitions: doughnut economics applied to sustainable tourism development
Description: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2023.2290009AbstractIssues with social and ecological sustainability in tourism should be seen as the result of widespread neoliberal policy making. This has led to tourism strategies that focus largely on growth of visitor numbers and spending. This paper investigates the transition to alternative strategies based on degrowth and regeneration, applying doughnut economics to urban tourism development. Action-oriented workshops were used as a research method. The workshops were offered to Destination Marketing Organisations (DMOs) and municipalities of seven cities in the Netherlands. Drawing from this method, this paper aims to investigate how...