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Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, UniSA Business, University of South Australia and adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Recreation and Leisure, University of Waterloo, Canada. She has worked with communities, non-governmental organisations and businesses that seek to harness tourism for sustainable and equitable futures. She is one of the Founding members of the Tourism Alert and Action Forum. She has won awards for engaged research, media engagement and research and teaching excellence. Adam Doering is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Tourism at Wakayama University, Japan. He is a Steering Committee Member of the Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific (CTS-AP) research network and has published broadly on the philosophy and ethics in tourism and travel, lifestyle sports and tourism in East Asia and critical analyses of Destination Management Organisations policies in the context of Japan. His current research examines lifestyle sports and tourism development in polluted, post-disaster and pandemic impacted coastal ecologies in rural Japan. Bobbie Chew Bigby (Cherokee Nation) is a PhD student at the Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame Australia. Bobbie’s research looks at the possibilities of tourism as a tool for Indigenous cultural, language and environmental justice. Her past research fellowships, including a Fulbright award and Rotary Peace Fellowship, have taken her to Indigenous Australia, China, India, Cambodia and Burma for research and community-based work. For her PhD research, Bobbie rotates her time between Broome, Western Australia and her own Tribal Nation in Oklahoma, USA.
Socialising Tourism... is a most timely and apt volume for addressing the global troubles caused by tourism. The initial chapters examining Indigenous hospitality and earth stewardship set an appropriate platform for some of the following chapters in which social and ecological well-being are paramount concerns. The book is forthright in challenging the tourism industry for the many stresses it places on world communities and the natural environment. Ben Sherman, MSc, Chairman, World Indigenous Tourism Alliance (WINTA) www.winta.org This book on social and ecological justice through tourism is extremely timely and relevant in a world that is grappling with how to re-imagine and re-position tourism as we emerge from a global pandemic. The editors have done a stellar job of compiling chapters containing critical, innovative and somewhat radical ideas that could help us to achieve a more balanced approach in future. Regina Scheyvens, Massey University, New Zealand Socialising Tourism demonstrates both the desperate need for change in contemporary tourism and the development of a coherent response. Grounded in principles of social, ecological and economic justice, this international collection provides valuable insights from a range of different places and experiences as to how tourism may better contribute to communities, destinations and the planet as a whole. This volume will be warmly welcomed. C. Michael Hall, University of Canterbury, New Zealand This accessible, provocative text critically explores 'socialising tourism' which rejects as unsustainable the colonial, imperialist, market-driven forces that still shape tourism. The authors, unashamedly political, urge reflection on what tourism is for and who it serves, while presenting radical possibilities for socially, ecologically just tourism futures. This text will undoubtedly become essential reading, stimulating vigorous debates amongst students and researchers. Donna Chambers, Professor of Tourism, University of Sunderland, UK
