Transformative roles in tourism: adopting living systems' thinking for regenerative futures

Bellato, Loretta; Frantzeskaki, Niki; Fiebig, Carlos Briceño; Pollock, Anna; Dens, Elke; Reed, Bill

doi:10.1108/jtf-11-2021-0256

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“…They identified the need for practical tools, new frames of reference and examples. Indeed, these industry professionals embody the transformations in values, thought, word and deed that are needed to shift the course of tourism in the future (Bellato et al. , 2022).…”

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Regenerative tourism: the challenge of transformational leadership

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Hullenaar³

et al. 2022

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PurposeThe aims of this paper are to share how one cohort of tourism practitioners viewed the transformative change needed within the tourism industry and to explore the implications for leadership in the future.Design/methodology/approachThe research design is based on a virtual whiteboard brainstorming activity incorporating both the individual and collective thinking of 20 participants in a global cohort class. Using conversational techniques to elicit cognitive knowledge and felt experience, the methodology generates shared understandings about the opportunities and challenges of implementing regenerative tourism.FindingsThe conversations reported in the findings of this paper provide important insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by tourism professionals as enablers of regenerative tourism. Findings included, first, that participants within the course demonstrated characteristics of transformational leadership including a strong moral positioning, embodied self-awareness, collaboration and collective action. Second, specific points of inertia that impede regenerative tourism are identified including embedded culture, power and organisational structures. Third, professionals are calling for practical tools, new frames of reference, and examples to help communicate regenerative tourism.Research limitations/implicationsThis is a viewpoint, not a research paper. Nonetheless, it provides a rich vein of future research in terms of disruptive pedagogy, potentially gendered interest in regenerative tourism, issues of transforming the next generation and power.Practical implicationsGovernance, organisational, destination management strategies, planning and policy frameworks, individual issues as well as contradictions within the tourism system were revealed. Transformative change in an uncertain future requires transformational leadership, characterised by moral character and behaviours that trigger empowered responses.Originality/valueThis paper shares insights from a unique global cohort class of tourism professionals wherein the challenges and opportunities for regenerative tourism are identified. The methodology is unusual in that it incorporates both individual and collective thinking through which shared understandings emerge.

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Regenerative tourism: the challenge of transformational leadership

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Hullenaar³

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“…Bellato et al (2022b) have created frameworks describing the regenerative approach in the tourism industry. Their frameworks include dimensions, such as a regeneration mindset and systems capabilities and effect (Bellato et al, 2022b), as well as the role that shareholders can play in the regenerative approach to contribute to the healthy evolution of the social-ecological system (Bellato et al, 2022a). Pollock (2019a) exemplifies regenerative tourism as being "a fresh understanding that the visitor economy, in general, and the destination, in particular, is not an industrial production line but a living, networked system embedded in a natural system called Nature and subject to Nature's operating rules and principles".…”

Section: Regenerative Approach In the Tourism Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some scholars did focus on hotels but still did not express their findings under the appellation of regenerative hospitality (e.g. Bellato et al, 2022a;Benne and Mang, 2015). Slawinski et al (2021) conducted a six-year inductive study of a regenerative organization (including a hotel, Fogo Island Inn) and developed an empirically grounded model of managing paradoxes of place for regeneration that stipulates that effectively managing place-based tensions, paradoxically, is the condition to enable regeneration.…”

Section: Regenerative Approach In the Hospitality Industrymentioning

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The rise of regenerative hospitality

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Saul,

Balet

et al. 2023

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PurposeThe concept of “regenerative business” is thriving in current business literature. The present study seeks to contribute to the current academic debate by investigating the nature and scope of regenerative hospitality, here seen as a steppingstone of regenerative tourism.Design/methodology/approachExploratory in nature and with the goal of understating the nature and scope of regenerative hospitality, nineteen semi-structured interviews with academics, consultants and self-proclaimed regenerative hoteliers were conducted.FindingsResults provide a regenerative hospitality framework to move from the current sustainability paradigm towards local and systemic regenerative approaches in hospitality by applying place and people intelligence.Originality/valueThis research contributes to the current academic debate about the future of travel, particularly focussing on the future of hospitality in relation to the multidisciplinary field of regenerative economy. Particularly, the paper has been designed to contribute to the current discussion in the Journal of Tourism Futures about the transformation and regenerative future of tourism.

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“…Nowadays, the Düsseldorf airport app has become an indispensable tool for passengers and this airport was awarded as the second-best regional airport in Europe and fifth best regional in the world in 2021. Leiper (1979) [76] indicates that the willingness to travel and seek new experiences is based on profit generation orientated towards the wants and needs of tourists [77].…”

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The World Airport Awards as a Quality Distinctive and Marketing Tool for Airports

Florido-Benítez

2022

JAOAM

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This study aims to analyze the World Airport Awards as a quality distinctive and marketing tool by airports. It is a benchmarking study, and it uses secondary data from Skytrax, World Airport Awards, Airports Council International, International Air Transport Association, airport official websites and apps, App Store, and Google Play, to support research results. The method includes airport website benchmarking, communication, and marketing strategies by airports with the aim of analyzing the degree of utilization of the prize awarded by Skytrax. The study’s findings indicate that when an airport wins the Skytrax’s prize or it is positioned very good in the Skytrax’s ranking, this airport cites the achievement on its official app and website, with the aim of advertising and promoting the quality services and brand image worldwide. Furthermore, this study demonstrates that there is a high correlation between airport ranking and digital channels usage like airport’s website.

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Transformative roles in tourism: adopting living systems' thinking for regenerative futures

Cited by 38 publications

References 32 publications

Regenerative tourism: the challenge of transformational leadership

Regenerative tourism: the challenge of transformational leadership

The rise of regenerative hospitality

The World Airport Awards as a Quality Distinctive and Marketing Tool for Airports

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