On Flickering, Tipping Points, Trajectories, Transitions, Transformations, Regime Shifts, and Resiliences in Tourism: Why Resilient Does Not Mean Better and Why Change is Not Always Sustainable
The concepts of transition, transformation, tipping points, and resilience have gained currency in recent years given the impacts of crisis events on tourism. However, while their use has grown in academic and policy circles, their conceptualisation and implications are insufficiently considered. Th...
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| description | The concepts of transition, transformation, tipping points, and resilience have gained currency in recent years given the impacts of crisis events on tourism. However, while their use has grown in academic and policy circles, their conceptualisation and implications are insufficiently considered. The paper argues that they are essentially contested concepts that are highly normative and political in scope reflecting the values and interests of actors in tourism development. These issues frame the conceptual implications of different destination and tourism development pathways and trajectories. Such pathways are not necessarily transitional (the process of change) or transformative (the shift to a new system state) for different levels of tourism systems and may instead reflect Business as Usual (BAU) or even the intensification of previous trajectories. This reflects the situation that although a pathway and state of a tourism system may be resilient from an engineering resilience perspective, i.e., resistant to change measured by a specific metric like tourist numbers, it may not be sustainable. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-76b2294d93824876b3cf29ba72252ece2025-08-20T03:39:49ZdeuAssociation Via@Via@2259-924X2025-07-012710.4000/14gb4On Flickering, Tipping Points, Trajectories, Transitions, Transformations, Regime Shifts, and Resiliences in Tourism: Why Resilient Does Not Mean Better and Why Change is Not Always SustainableC. Michael HallThe concepts of transition, transformation, tipping points, and resilience have gained currency in recent years given the impacts of crisis events on tourism. However, while their use has grown in academic and policy circles, their conceptualisation and implications are insufficiently considered. The paper argues that they are essentially contested concepts that are highly normative and political in scope reflecting the values and interests of actors in tourism development. These issues frame the conceptual implications of different destination and tourism development pathways and trajectories. Such pathways are not necessarily transitional (the process of change) or transformative (the shift to a new system state) for different levels of tourism systems and may instead reflect Business as Usual (BAU) or even the intensification of previous trajectories. This reflects the situation that although a pathway and state of a tourism system may be resilient from an engineering resilience perspective, i.e., resistant to change measured by a specific metric like tourist numbers, it may not be sustainable.https://journals.openedition.org/viatourism/12907sustainable tourismdisaster reform hypothesispathwayslock-insocio-ecological resilienceengineering resilience |
| spellingShingle | C. Michael Hall On Flickering, Tipping Points, Trajectories, Transitions, Transformations, Regime Shifts, and Resiliences in Tourism: Why Resilient Does Not Mean Better and Why Change is Not Always Sustainable Via@ sustainable tourism disaster reform hypothesis pathways lock-in socio-ecological resilience engineering resilience |
| title | On Flickering, Tipping Points, Trajectories, Transitions, Transformations, Regime Shifts, and Resiliences in Tourism: Why Resilient Does Not Mean Better and Why Change is Not Always Sustainable |
| title_full | On Flickering, Tipping Points, Trajectories, Transitions, Transformations, Regime Shifts, and Resiliences in Tourism: Why Resilient Does Not Mean Better and Why Change is Not Always Sustainable |
| title_fullStr | On Flickering, Tipping Points, Trajectories, Transitions, Transformations, Regime Shifts, and Resiliences in Tourism: Why Resilient Does Not Mean Better and Why Change is Not Always Sustainable |
| title_full_unstemmed | On Flickering, Tipping Points, Trajectories, Transitions, Transformations, Regime Shifts, and Resiliences in Tourism: Why Resilient Does Not Mean Better and Why Change is Not Always Sustainable |
| title_short | On Flickering, Tipping Points, Trajectories, Transitions, Transformations, Regime Shifts, and Resiliences in Tourism: Why Resilient Does Not Mean Better and Why Change is Not Always Sustainable |
| title_sort | on flickering tipping points trajectories transitions transformations regime shifts and resiliences in tourism why resilient does not mean better and why change is not always sustainable |
| topic | sustainable tourism disaster reform hypothesis pathways lock-in socio-ecological resilience engineering resilience |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/viatourism/12907 |
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