We welcome original contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following streams and indicative themes:

1. Rethinking Tourism Growth: Macroeconomic Effects, Costs and Distribution
  • rethinking the model of tourism growth
  • tourism degrowth: concepts, critiques and applications
  • steady-state economics and tourism destination management
  • macroeconomic costs of tourism: externalities, displacement and inequality
  • tourism-induced inflation and its socioeconomic consequences
  • tourism value chains, economic leakage and local multiplier effects
2. Measuring Tourism Sustainability: Indicators, Capacity and Limits
  • rethinking tourism sustainability measurement
  • limits of acceptable change in tourism contexts
  • advances in monitoring tourism sustainability
  • tourism sustainability indicators: development, implementation and effectiveness
  • destination carrying capacity: methodological advances and case studies
  • early-warning frameworks for overtourism and tourism pressure
3. Climate Change, Spatial Pressures and Resource Use
  • climate-adjusted carrying capacity in coastal destinations
  • heat stress and shifting seasonality in urban and coastal areas
  • tourism carbon footprints and regional emissions
  • nature-based solutions in tourism and spatial planning
  • land-use conflicts and spatial planning in tourism
  • concentration, dispersal and spatial rebalancing of tourism
  • coastal and island tourism under spatial pressure
  • advances in assessing climate change impacts and responses in tourism
4. Behaviour, Choice and Digital Tools in Tourism Governance
  • behavioural insights into tourist decision-making
  • digital nudging in tourism
  • nudging sustainable tourism: theory and evidence
  • demand management and visitor flow optimisation
  • digital tools for real-time visitor flow management
  • gamification, incentives and persuasive design for travel behaviour
5. Communities, Justice and the Conditions of Coexistence
  • resident perceptions, quality of life and tourism tolerance thresholds
  • tourism gentrification, housing markets and urban displacement
  • social equity and distributional justice in tourism development
  • community participation and co-governance in tourism planning
  • overtourism and undertourism as related governance challenges
  • tourism labour markets: precarity, seasonality and decent work
  • cultural commodification and the preservation of intangible heritage
6. Reframing Tourism: Values, Responsibility and Pathways of Change
  • alternative pathways beyond sustainability in tourism theory and practice
  • social change, destination futures and everyday life
  • community wellbeing, quality of life and the conditions of coexistence
  • place-based and community-led approaches to tourism transformation
  • regenerative tourism and net-positive change