Abstract
Tourism is a human structure and cannot be equated to natural systems such as farming. While regenerative farming focuses on the health of the natural system starting with the soil, tourism is a human system and must focus on regenerating the human system. This paper argues that the foundation of tourism is the host community. If the host community is vibrant and healthy, dynamic and resilient and has appropriate political systems to manage tourism, tourism will have the social licence and will thrive. Tourism can then have upwardly cascading feedback mechanisms where the host community can restore the natural environment, institutional and political systems, social structures such as schools, and physical infrastructure such as roads, and the community can be empowered and strengthened.
Recommended Citation
Haley, Marie
(2023)
"Host Communities: The Foundation of Regenerative Tourism,"
Journal of Sustainability and Resilience: Vol. 3
:
Iss.
2
, Article 4.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jsr/vol3/iss2/4
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