CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.66 on Wednesday, November 18. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.

Regenerative tourism: More, Just or Beyond Sustainability?

• Abstract:
  Regenerative tourism has gained prominence over the last years as a renewed approach to envision tourism as a force for good and as a paradigm shift that fosters community empowerment, ecology-driven approaches and more-than-human perspectives. There are, nevertheless, unclear ontological, epistemological and practical aspects of regenerative tourism that need further scrutiny. The aim of this lecture is to look at the roots of the regenerative turn in tourism research and practice by looking at field-specific and disciplinary influences that shape our understanding of regenerative tourism. The lecture will first focus on the definition of regenerative tourism and examples from literature and practice. It will then assess the conceptual and empirical boundaries of regenerative tourism in relation to other contemporary tourism phenomena, with a focus on environmental and community perspectives. The lecture will then present a few reflections based on my own research.
• Keywords: Regenerative Tourism; Justice; Community Empowerment; Ecological Limits; Tourism Metagovernance
• Hosted by: Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS), Hokkaido University
• Date/Time: Wednesday 18 November 2026  |  16:30-18:00 (JST)
• Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
• Language: English
• Capacity: 50 persons
• Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)
• Speaker: Dr. Alberto Amore
  Bio:
  Alberto Amore is Assistant Professor in Geographies of the Anthropocene at the Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests include tourism and public policy, destination resilience, spatial planning, urban regeneration, regenerative tourism and tourism and climate change. He has published more than 100 research outputs of a diverse range of contemporary aspects of tourism with insights from different urban, regional and national contexts. He is currently Associate Editor for Tourism Management Perspectives and member of the Editorial Board for Tourism Geographies andFrontiers in Sustainable Tourism. He is also Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Ordinary Member of the Leisure Studies Association and the Pohjois-Suomen Maantieteellinen Seura. In 2026 he was appointed as the Chair of the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group at the Royal Geographical Society.
• Moderator: Dr. Meng Qu (Guest Associate Professor, CATS, Hokkaido University)
• Registration:
  Please register at the URL below.
  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zKjh_LoaTauGE2LXZm7tqQ
• Contact:
  Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
  online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
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