Envisioning Tourism in the Future - (Future of Tourism) by Richard Butler (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book brings together experienced and well-respected researchers to understand, interpret and envision the future for tourism. It explores the limitations of predicting the future of tourism and areas such as climate change, technology, sustainability, hypermobility, regeneration and destination management.

Book Synopsis

This book brings together experienced and well-respected researchers to understand, interpret and envision the future for tourism. It explores the limitations of predicting the future of tourism and areas such as climate change, technology, sustainability, hypermobility, regeneration and destination management.

Review Quotes

Contemporary tourism is in crisis. This fascinating collection introduces the nature and extent of that crisis, exploring a variety of issues and challenges, from climate change to destination management, and proposing potential responses to those challenges. Timely and cutting-edge, it is essential reading for anyone with a concern for a more sustainable future for tourism.

This book is a very valuable resource for anyone dissatisfied with the current state of the sector and its lack of willingness or ability to confront today's polycrisis. Nothing short of transformation is needed - a core thread throughout this collection.

This is a must read for anyone interested in tourism futures, possible, probable or preferable. Contributions by leading scholars explore the extent of possible futures shaped by factors such as the role of social media, adhering to ethical guidelines, with probable futures shaped by regenerative practice, but where preferable futures will require complex tourism systems change and effective climate change action to enable the transformation of tourism

About the Author

Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK and the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His most recent publications include the Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Indigenous Peoples (with Anna Carr, 2025) and The Tourism Area Life Cycle: Review, Relevance and Revision (Channel View Publications, 2024).