Tourism’s thriveability requires performative change: Foundations
What are the basic requirements for tourism destinations to thrive? K Michael Haywood lays them out in this “Good Tourism” Insight.
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These days, anxieties are running high. Our ability to thrive is under threat.
Permacrises are wreaking havoc:
- Democracies and our freedoms are under attack.
- Cancel culture and food insecurities are on the rise.
- Rampant inflation is dampening economic prosperity.
- Societies are becoming polarised and angry.
- Incivility and ultra-nationalism are driving hate and racism.
- Pandemics and climatic events are now catastrophic.
No wonder so many companies, communities, and countries are adrift; others lost in their divisiveness and dis-ease.
While a large number of sustainability, regenerative, and ameliorating initiatives are underway, the fertile conditions for life, and the well-being of eco-systems, organisations, and humanity remain in need of revitalisation.
Are we really saving ourselves? Prepped? Could it be that the self-organising properties of living systems are in abeyance? I wonder.
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There can be no doubt: We’re on the cusp of a new era.
Why, then, isn’t power being properly marshalled and managed; awareness about shifting paradigms increasing; and, science being taken seriously?
Post-pandemic, tourism in communities-as-destination may be on the rebound, but economic revival will not address or resolve these and related concerns. In fact, the opposite is likely to occur as operators maximise growth utilising routine behaviours, policies, and practices antithetical with the complexities of today’s social movements.
Reformation, however, is possible.
What follows are some basic requirements for tourism’s thriveability.
The basic requirements for tourism’s thriveability
There can be no doubt, sustainable tourism counts for development through which the mundanity of economics will continue to rank highly.
Fortunately, far more is at stake as communities-as-destinations become revisionist, especially in their search for enhanced meaning and livability; a longing and search for improved quality-of-life and ‘wellth’ designed to enhance the lives of all.
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Success in achieving such outcomes, however, cannot begin until the “why” of communities-as-destinations, not simply tourism, is known and fleshed out. It’s an inquiry intended to culminate in clarity of purpose demanding activation.
The intent: To achieve more liberating forms of self-actualisation, the good life, and civic pride; fundamental requirements leading to tourism becoming acknowledged as an honourable and legitimate super-cluster.
While enactment could be contentious, it needn’t be, so long as communities-as-destinations seek to … continue reading Prof Haywood’s “GT” Insight ‘Tourism’s thriveability requires performative change: Foundations’ in full at The “Good Tourism” Blog.
