Forecasting Sustainable Tourism: Challenges, Strategies and Innovations

This book provides a forward-looking and interdisciplinary perspective on sustainable tourism, addressing the urgent need to align tourism development with environmental, social, and economic sustainability goals. It offers a comprehensive overview of challenges, strategies, and innovations shaping the future of tourism in a rapidly changing global context.Tourism plays a critical role in economic development and cultural exchange, yet it also generates significant pressures on ecosystems, communities, and governance systems. In response, this book examines how tourism can be reoriented to support resilience, climate action, biodiversity conservation, and inclusive development. It brings together a diverse set of contributions covering key themes such as ecotourism, destination governance, sustainable hospitality, cultural heritage, protected areas, risk management, and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence.A central contribution of this volume lies in its focus on forecasting and future-oriented approaches. Rather than only analyzing current practices, the chapters explore scenario analysis, policy innovation, and strategic planning tools that support more sustainable and adaptive tourism systems. The book also highlights the importance of collaborative governance, stakeholder engagement, and place-based strategies in implementing effective sustainability transitions across different regions and contexts.By integrating theoretical insights with empirical case studies from multiple countries, the book addresses a critical gap in the literature: the lack of holistic and actionable frameworks that connect sustainability principles with real-world tourism dynamics. It moves beyond fragmented approaches by linking climate change, governance, innovation, and socio-economic development within a unified perspective.This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, practitioners, destination managers, and graduate students seeking to understand and advance sustainable tourism strategies in both academic and applied contexts.