Sustainable Tourism Experiences
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 752
Special Issue Editors
2. CinTurs, Faro, 8005-139, Portugal
Interests: tourism; tourism marketing; tourism experience design and management; tourism co-creation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The current COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity to pause and reflect on the experiences we may offer to visitors in the future, which must address sustainability issues. The design and development of sustainable tourism experiences will benefit destination stakeholders by considering the community’s strengths and their needs and expectations from tourism while concurrently facilitating rewarding and memorable experiences for the visitors. How can experiences encourage a connection with the local community?
Tourism businesses also will need attractive experiential offerings targeted to local and national markets, suggesting they rediscover local cultural and natural heritage. How can experiences encourage a connection with culture and nature? How can technological innovations support sustainable tourism experience?
Academics will need to better understand the principles and practices of experience design from a psychological and managerial perspective. How can we conceptualise sustainable tourism experiences?
This Special Issue of Sustainability explores opportunities for a new future for tourism and will include papers focusing on (though not limited to):
- Conceptualising the sustainable tourism experience
- Theory of tourism experience studies
- Links to existing research—emotion, attention, meaning
- Research methods applied to the tourism experience
- Linking experience with sustainability discourse and practice
- Managing and marketing sustainable experiences
- Developments in co-creative experience design
- Including the customer and community
- Case studies of advertising effectiveness
- Culture and heritage—designing experiences in historical sites and monuments as well as authenticity in traditional villages
- Reinventing local tastes in food experiences
- Back to nature—exploring nature-based experiences and wellness, sustainable trail design, and adventure experiences
- Accessible nature—designing for inclusion
- Interpretation in the future: exploring the museum experience and ICT for visitor creativity in action at museums and exhibitions
- VR and AR developments in tourism destinations
- Storytelling in the digital age
Dr. Ana Cláudia Campos
Prof. Dr. Noel Scott
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- tourism experience
- COVID-19 crisis
