The 31st Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research

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Session: Resilience in places

The tourism sector has been severely affected by a range of global disasters such as COVID-19, natural disasters, financial and political instability in the last couple of years. However, there are also ongoing slow changes, such as global warming, that affect the tourism sector in the long run. It is therefore no surprise that resilience has emerged as a key concept in the last couple of years in the field of tourism. Resilience research is developed from Holling's seminal work that introduced resilience in ecological systems to explore the resistance of natural systems to disturbances of natural or anthropogenic causes. Since then, resilience thinking has expanded to a broad range of contexts and perspectives beyond the ecological systems approach. However, there is no distinct definition of resilience, but it is usually addressed as the ability to adapt, respond, and deal effectively with change at an individual, organisational, destination or community level.
There is a lack of research that addresses destination resilience, especially including empirical approaches. In this session, a destination is regarded as a place that could for example be a park, a city, a hotel, or a walking trail.
Furthermore, it is argued that in order to advance knowledge about complex societal issues the focus needs to be on the problem and the knowledge (disciplines) relevant to the problem more flexibly applied. This session therefore welcomes abstracts that address resilience in places from a range of perspectives, disciplines, and empirical contexts.
Abstracts are therefore invited for, but not limited to, the following topics:
-Resilience in urban contexts
-Resilience in rural contexts
-Resilience and destination stakeholders
-Resilience and destination engagement
-Resilience and communication practice
-Resilience and ecosystem services
-Resilience, vulnerability, and risk

Period	2023 Sept 19
Event type	Conference
Location	Östersund, SwedenShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International