Beyond sustainability? Resilient and regenerative tourism at the crossroads of climate change
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https://doi.org/10.29149/mtr.v9i1.8318Keywords:
climate change, paradigm, sustainability, resilience, regenerative tourismAbstract
This theoretical essay is the result of reflections on the interrelationship between tourism, sustainability and the new paradigmatic approaches at the crossroads of the environmental crisis and climate change. To do this, we start by understanding the emergence of the sustainability paradigm in tourism, as opposed to tourism in its conventional and Cartesian form. In addition to sustainability, the study is in line with theoretical models and guidelines aimed at internalizing and meeting the challenges posed by scenarios of transformation and intensification of crises. Its central objective is therefore to understand the theoretical configuration between the sustainability paradigm and more recent approaches, such as resilience and regeneration, in tourism, taking into account the effects and repercussions of climate change, while discussing the categories of analysis that are essential for the preparation of a doctoral thesis. This is a theoretical and preliminary study, based on a review of the literature, of a qualitative nature and guided by complex and transdisciplinary thinking. Thus, resilience and the regenerative tourism model are presented as recent and still emerging responses to reorient and reframe the theory and practice of this phenomenon. These approaches are aimed at reflecting on, advancing and deepening assistance in the construction of a more attentive, balanced and responsible tourism practice with regard to the socio-environmental and economic challenges and vulnerabilities promoted by scenarios of intensified climate change, and in attention to their own effects and repercussions on this same process.
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