Tourism and Sustainability

This timely and innovative volume undertakes a comprehensive exploration of how local practices intersect with global processes within a tourism and sustainability context, providing detailed insights and practical applications that can be applied to tourist destinations globally.

Iinterdisciplinary in character, the volume focuses on two adjacent areas in Southeast Sweden, the island of Öland and the Småland region. It provides illustrative extended case studies to extract valuable insights applicable to diverse contexts. This localized approach enables researchers to discern patterns, identify challenges, and devise solutions that can be adapted and implemented in various tourist destinations globally. The variety of topics identified within the case area, and which are featured through the chapters of the volume (i.e., destination marketing, the sharing economy, rural entrepreneurship, water scarcity, heritage preservation, national park branding, the cultural and creative economy), make it unique in its approach to integrate multiple local practices within a case area into a framework that had wider implications beyond the regional level.

This volume will be of pivotal interest to scholars, students and academics of tourism and sustainability, as well as practitioners.

Solène Prince is Associate Professor in Tourism Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research interests span across tourism geographies. Her publications feature in Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Geographies and Landscape Research. She is associate editor at Tourism Geographies and Island Studies Journal. Her current research projects touch upon tourist perceptions and rural space in renewable energy transitions in the context of Sweden.

Marianna Strzelecka is Associate Professor in Tourism Studies at the School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her work draws on political science, sociology, and environmental psychology to explore socio-cultural aspects of human–nature relationships within leisure and tourism at both community and individual levels. She is published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Annals of Tourism Research and Journal of Environmental Psychology.

Christina Öberg is Professor/Chair in Marketing and International Business at Linnaeus University, Sweden. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of Exeter. Her research interests include new ways to pursue business, including the sharing economy. She is the Chair of the Nordic Academy of Management. She has published in Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Entrepreneurship, and Regional Development, Information Technology & People, Production Planning & Control, and Journal of Product Innovation Management.