Tourism Review: Volume 78 Issue 2

Editorial: Tourism 2030 and the contribution to the sustainable development goals: the tourism review viewpoint

Dimitrios Buhalis, Xi Yu Leung, Daisy Fan, Simon Darcy, Ganghua Chen, Feifei Xu, Garry Wei-Han Tan, Robin Nunkoo, Anna Farmaki

Politics and the sustainable development goals: Tourism Agenda 2030 perspective article

Colin Michael Hall, Siamak Seyfi, Sara Naderi Koupaei

The 2030 Agenda provides the normative framework for much contemporary thinking on sustainable tourism. This viewpoint paper aims to discuss the inherently political nature of the…

How to overcome the intention–behavior gap in sustainable tourism: Tourism Agenda 2030 perspective article

Giampaolo Viglia, Diletta Acuti

This study encourages a quantum leap knowledge encouraging tourism researchers to measure actual behavior.

Tourist behaviour change for sustainable consumption (SDG Goal12): Tourism Agenda 2030 perspective article

Sara Dolnicar

The purpose of this perspective paper is to draw attention to how the tourism industry can take action to contribute to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12 by nudging…

Decent work in traditional tourism destinations: Tourism Agenda 2030 perspective article

Rico Maggi, Eva Vroegop

Discussing tendencies and shortcomings in the current debate on promoting decent work in hospitality and tourism, this study aims to respond to recent calls for progress on…

Small- and medium-sized tourism enterprises and smart tourism: Tourism Agenda 2030 perspective article

Peter O’Connor

By highlighting the important role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in readdressing the competitive balance between tourism small- and medium-sized…

Smart and sustainable hotels: Tourism Agenda 2030 perspective article

Beatriz Casais, Luís Ferreira

This perspective study aims to discuss the inclusion of technology in hotels as a key driver of sustainability.

Robots in tourism and Sustainable Development Goals: Tourism Agenda 2030 perspective article

Stanislav Ivanov, Stefano Duglio, Riccardo Beltramo

The purpose of this perspective paper is to investigate the role of robots in tourism’s contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Digital accessibility of smart cities - tourism for all and reducing inequalities: Tourism Agenda 2030

Elena Fernández-Díaz, Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado, Patricia P. Iglesias-Sánchez, Carlos de las Heras-Pedrosa

There is widespread agreement that the tourism sector should address the issue of sustainability. The purpose of this study is to analyze the digital accessibility of the cities…

Metaverse tourism for sustainable tourism development: Tourism Agenda 2030

Hanyoung Go, Myunghwa Kang

The purpose of this study is to define metaverse tourism and to provide a viewpoint and further research regarding metaverse tourism with respect to its potential for sustainable…

Online learning attributes on overall tourism and hospitality education learning satisfaction: Tourism Agenda 2030

Chang (Cherise) Li, Elizabeth Agyeiwaah

Promoting “Quality Education” as part of Sustainable Development Goal 4 requires educational stakeholders to understand the nature of online learning from the learners’…

Cultural attractiveness index for sustainable cities: Tourism Agenda 2030

Huiying Zhang, Xi Yu Leung, Billy Bai

Aligned with cultural attraction theory, this study aims to propose a cultural attractiveness index (CAI) that helps tourism practitioners and scholars evaluate and track the…

Tourism towards healthy lives and well-being for older adults and senior citizens: Tourism Agenda 2030

Ian Patterson, Adela Balderas-Cejudo

The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive review of the contribution of tourism to the development of healthy lives and to promote feelings of well-being for older…

Tourism destination quality and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Tourism Agenda 2030

Peter Mason, Marcjanna Augustyn, Arthur Seakhoa-King

This paper aims to explain how improving tourism destination quality could contribute to addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at tourism destinations.

Sustainability as a building block for tourism – future research: Tourism Agenda 2030

Sara Alonso-Muñoz, María Torrejón-Ramos, María-Sonia Medina-Salgado, Rocío González-Sánchez

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the state-of-the-art about sustainable tourism. Despite the significant growth of publications exploring sustainable tourism, the…

Measuring the sustainability of tourist destinations based on the SDGs: the case of Algarve in Portugal: Tourism Agenda 2030

Danielle Pimentel de Oliveira, María Dolores Pitarch-Garrido

A synthetic indicator (SI) is developed to measure the sustainability of tourist destinations according to four proposed dimensions of sustainable development: social, economic…

Low-carbon tourism: determining domestic tourist perception from Thailand: Tourism Agenda 2030

Pipatpong Fakfare, Walanchalee Wattanacharoensil

Underpinned by three-factor theory, this study aims to: examine the dynamics (asymmetry) of multi-quality low-carbon attributes towards the Thai tourists’ perception and…

How environmental emotions link to responsible consumption behavior: Tourism Agenda 2030

Wei Xiong, Meijiao Huang, Xi Yu Leung, Yuanhui Zhang, Xiaomei Cai

The aim of this study was to investigate the themes related to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 in relation to tourism, and specifically to explore how the…

Accessible Tourism – understanding blind and vision-impaired tourists’ behaviour towards inclusion

Guanghui Qiao, Yating Cao, Junmiao Zhang

The physiological and psychological issues that limit people with vision impairment make it difficult for them to participate in tourism activities and enjoy the various benefits…

Rural tourism development between community involvement and residents’ life satisfaction: Tourism Agenda 2030

Yanju Jia, Rui Liu, Ang Li, Fengzhi Sun, Ronnie Yeh

Aiming to investigate the direct and indirect effects of community involvement on residents’ life satisfaction, this study builds a conceptual framework through the mediation…

Post-independence challenges for Caribbean tourism development: a solution-driven approach through Agenda 2030

Andrew J. Spencer, Acolla Lewis-Cameron, Sherma Roberts, Therez B. Walker, Beienetch Watson, Larisa Monae McBean

This paper aims to provide a comparative analysis of sustainable tourism development across the Anglophone Caribbean region from the post-independence period of 1962 to the 2020s…

Tourism towards the well-being of Small Island Developing States: Tourism Agenda 2030

Miguel Puig-Cabrera, Ginesa Martínez-del Vas, Miguel Ángel Beltrán-Bueno, Abraham Nuevo-López

The purpose of this study is to contrast the capacity of tourism-specialized and non-tourism-specialized systems in small developing insular societies to achieve a well-being…

The impacts of tourism development on income inequality: how does tourism capital investment contribute to income distribution? Tourism Agenda 2030

Tafazal Kumail, Muhammad Sadiq, Wajahat Ali, Farah Sadiq

This study aims to analyze tourism development's (TOD) role in demoting income inequality in South Asia from 1996 to 2020. To this end, this study explored the connection between…

Can tourism curb income inequality? Tourism Agenda 2030

Boopen Seetanah, Narvada Gopy-Ramdhany, Reena Bhattu-Babajee

This paper aims to examine the relationship between tourism development and income inequality, closely linked to the Sustainable Development Goals, for the case of a large sample…