Sustainability Transitions in Tourism and Hospitality

Sustainability Transitions in Tourism and Hospitality offers vital conceptual and practical insights into the domains of sustainability transitions in tourism and hospitality sectors, business models, and operations.

Using Sustainability Transitions (ST) theory, the book addresses the extent to which the tourism and hospitality industries drive the sustainability transition by revamping business models and practices to incorporate sustainability into their innovation strategy. The chapters are structured to examine these topics through sustainability transitions, which entails a comprehensive consideration of the state of knowledge, conceptual underpinning about sustainability transitions in tourism and hospitality, and current and alternative models and governance frameworks that support sustainability transitions. By doing so, it sheds light on how sustainability transitions in tourism and hospitality, by virtue of being multi-dimensional and multi-actor, are at the interface of political sciences, geography, sociological and behavioural sciences, technology and innovation studies. This is supported with case-based insights throughout. This timely volume advances the tourism and hospitality research agenda towards generating an in-depth understanding of the dynamics, processes and structures that shape the industry’s transition to more sustainable consumption and production systems.

This book will be of pivotal interest to students, researchers and academics of tourism, as well as development studies disciplines.

Rami K. Isaac has more than 22 years of experience in tourism studies. Born in Palestine, Rami Isaac completed his undergraduate studies in the Netherlands, his graduate studies in the U.K., and earned his PhD in Spatial Sciences from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality at Bethlehem University, Palestine and at Breda University of Applied Sciences. He was the former President of the Research Committee 50 on International Tourism, International Sociologist Association (ISA) (2014-2018) and currently he is the Vice-President of RC50 Tourism (2018-2027). His research interests are in the area of tourism development and management, cultural heritage/dark tourism and political aspects of tourism. He has co-authored more than 90 scientific papers, book chapters and edited volumes on tourism and political (in)stability, tourism interventions, safety and security, occupation, tourism and war, violence and transformational tourism.

Andrew Ngawenja Mzembe Following a career in international development, Dr Andrew Ngawenja Mzembe undertook postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom, obtaining a PhD in Management (Corporate Social Responsibility) from the University of Huddersfield, a Master of Science in Innovation, Leadership and Management from the University of York, and a Master of Arts in Public Administration from the London Metropolitan University. He also holds a Bachelor of Sciences (Agricultural Sciences) from the University of Malawi. Dr Mzembe is a Senior Lecturer at the Academy of Hotel and Facility Management of Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Mzembe’s research is at the intersection of business ethics, hospitality, tourism, entrepreneurship, innovation, corporate social responsibility, governance and sustainability transitions. His research work has appeared in international scientific journals and several edited books. He has co-authored a book entitled ‘Rethinking Sustainability in Facilities and Workplace Management (with Melissen, F., Smit, B. and Danivska, V.).