Gen Z, Tourism, and Sustainable Consumption: The Most Sustainable Generation Ever?

About

Siamak Seyfi is an Assistant Professor at the Geography Research Unit of the University of Oulu Finland. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Tourism Marketing of the University of Eastern Finland and a Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Hospitality Tourism and Events Taylors University Malaysia. Using a multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary approach and informed by diverse disciplinary perspectives his research focuses on tourism mobilities tourist behaviour resilience sustainability and politics of tourism and peace through tourism. Guided by generational and lifestyle theories his recent research focuses on political and ethical consumerism with a special focus on the Gen Z cohort.C. Michael Hall is Ahurei Professor in the Department of Management Marketing and Tourism University of Canterbury New Zealand; Visiting Professor and Docent in Geography University of Oulu Finland; Visiting Professor School of Business and Economics Linnaeus University Kalmar Sweden; Guest Professor Department of Service Management and Service Studies Lund University Helsingborg Sweden; Visiting Professor CRiC Taylor's University Kuala Lumpur Malaysia; and Eminent Scholar Kyung Hee University Seoul South Korea. Co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism and Field Editor of Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism he publishes widely on tourism sustainability global environmental change food and regional development.Marianna Strzelecka is Associate Professor at the School of Business and Economics of Linnaeus University Sweden. She conducts research at the intersection of tourism rural sociology and environmental social sciences. Her most recent projects deal with conservation conflicts a sense of justice and nature stewardship. While studying nature stewardship in volunteer travel she has explored hedonic values self-efficacy and global citizenship attitudes.