Leisure, Tourism, Sport and Community Development

Dear Colleagues,

Any exploration of the relationship between leisure and the various facets of sustainability must underscore its complexity. Indeed, activities related to leisure, tourism, and sport can be understood as both undermining sustainability (e.g., the impact of long-haul airline flights on climate change) while also offering opportunities for fostering change to enhance sustainability (e.g., leisure-related social movements can focus on environmental consciousness-raising). Further, investigations of the role of leisure, sport and tourism in community development illuminate how communities can be built and sustained through leisure (e.g., community gardens can generate social capital) but also the ways in which communities can be destabilised or exclusionary (e.g., fees for community sport programs can limit participation). Efforts to situate our understanding of how leisure, tourism and sport affect community development within the broader context of sustainability, then, must be willing to embrace and navigate these complexities. This Special Issue aims to link broad understandings of sustainability and community development through a direct engagement with topics related to leisure, tourism and sport. Authors are invited to contribute to this issue by submitting conceptual or research articles that engage these tensions and complexities. Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Prof. Dr. Heather Mair
Guest Editor

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