15 December
Local Date: Dec 14 2024 |
Local Time: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
 | Freya Higgins-Desbiolles Moderator |
 | Bobbie Chew Bigby Panelist |
 | Can-Seng Ooi Panelist |
 | Phoebe Everingham Panelist |
 | Antonia Canosa Panelist |
 | Jim Macbeth Discussant |
Volume 51
Localising Tourism: Centring local communities in tourism futures
Local communities are the backbone of fair and sustainable tourism. Learning from the experience of the global pandemic, with its border closures and lockdowns, Higgins-Desbiolles and Bigby described a “local turn in tourism”. This “turn” offers multiple possibilities for localising tourism: defining tourism by the local community, local community empowerment, more localised geographies of travel and tourism, localising decision-making to the lowest level (subsidiarity) and the local interrelationships between people, place, ecology and all living things.
This panel convenes Australia-based researchers that contributed chapters to the Channel View edited volume The Local Turn in Tourism. In this panel discussion, they will consider case studies of the local turn, consider the possibilities and test the limits of “localising” tourism. They will consider the argument that a localising agenda is essential to ensure long-term sustainability, equity and justice. This discussion may test the argument that: “The place where tourism occurs is not a tourism destination; it is the local community’s home, their standing place, a place of uncompromisable value” (Higgins-Desbiolles, Doering and Bigby, 2022: 14).
This panel convenes Australia-based researchers that contributed chapters to the Channel View edited volume The Local Turn in Tourism. In this panel discussion, they will consider case studies of the local turn, consider the possibilities and test the limits of “localising” tourism. They will consider the argument that a localising agenda is essential to ensure long-term sustainability, equity and justice. This discussion may test the argument that: “The place where tourism occurs is not a tourism destination; it is the local community’s home, their standing place, a place of uncompromisable value” (Higgins-Desbiolles, Doering and Bigby, 2022: 14).
Program
Welcome Remarks
Jafar Jafari
Kazem Vafadari
Kazem Vafadari
Introduction/Moderator
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
Presentations by speakers/panelists
Antonia Canosa
Phoebe Everingham
Can-Seng Ooi
Bobbie Chew Bigby
Phoebe Everingham
Can-Seng Ooi
Bobbie Chew Bigby
Cultural Break
Discussion and Q/A
Participants and Panelists
Rapporteur
Malcolm Cooper
Conclusion
Jafar Jafari
Kazem Vafadari
Kazem Vafadari
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