Sport, Tourism, and Hospitality for SDGs

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue aims to understand the facilitation of (sustainable development goals (SDGs) driven by sport, tourism and hospitality. The UN announced these SDGs to achieve a better and more sustainable future. The Goals call for actions to promote prosperity while protecting the planet, and countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 SDGs (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment).

In the sport sector of the 2030 Agenda, it followed by announcing the Sport for Development and Peace community and continued using sport as a unique tool to achieve the SDGs.

Sport is also an important enabler of sustainable development. We recognize the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect, and the contributions it makes to the empowerment of women and of young people, individuals, and communities, as well as to health, education, and social inclusion objectives.

(2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development A/RES/70/1, paragraph 37).

In the field of tourism and hospitality to SDGs, the 2030 Agenda determined to promote sustainable tourism and hospitality, and UNWTO (World Tourism Organization) is responsible for the promotion of sustainable tourism and hospitality to achieve the SDGs.

We recognize that social and economic development depends on the sustainable management of our planet’s natural resources. We are therefore determined to conserve and sustainably use oceans and seas; freshwater resources; as well as forests, mountains, and drylands, and to protect biodiversity, ecosystems, and wildlife. We are also determined to promote sustainable tourism; tackle water scarcity and water pollution; strengthen cooperation on desertification, dust storms, land degradation, and drought; and promote resilience and disaster risk reduction.

(2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development A/RES/70/1, paragraph 33).

Therefore, we invite scholars to write conceptual, empirical, or case studies across all facets of sport and tourism for SDGs. The focus of this Special Issue is how SDGs can be enhanced by sport and tourism. This Special Issue seeks to publish high-quality research that builds on a psychological perspective, to help to develop new ways of providing sport, tourism and hospitality research and practice and promoting sustainability.

This Special Issue invites papers from a range of disciplines and fields of specialty research related (but not limited) to the following topics:

• Sport for SDGs;
• Tourism for SDGs;
• Hospitality for SDGs;
• Sport tourism for SDGs;
• Sport, tourism, hospitality and gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls;
• Sport, tourism, hospitality and poverty;
• Sport, tourism, hospitality and well-being;
• Sport, tourism, hospitality and sustainable cities and communities;
• Sport, tourism, hospitality and sustainable consumption and production;
• Sport, tourism, hospitality and climate change;
• Sport, tourism, hospitality and the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas, and marine resources.

Dr. Mei-Yen Chen
Dr. Chih-Hsing Sam Liu
Guest Editors

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• Sport for SDGs
• Tourism for SDGs