Sustainable Tourism? Toward a new socio-legal research agenda

Description

Tourism is a multifaceted economic sector, whose relevance and impact cuts across jurisdictions and levels of governance. Ensuring the sector’s sustainability is a challenging endeavour, requiring a complex approach to regulation and decision-making. Yet scholarship on sustainable tourism is sorely lacking in legal perspectives, including ones of a critical, comparative, and interdisciplinary nature. The workshop aims to fill this lacuna by bringing together a diverse team of academics and inviting them to co-produce a research agenda for future socio-legal studies on sustainable tourism. The agenda will be forged through discussions revolving around three overarching themes: first, tensions between hegemonic and subaltern societal projects; second, existing regulatory strategies for promoting sustainable tourism; and third, (post)human rights-based approaches as an emerging governance paradigm. The agenda will also be shaped by inputs from local and regional administrations, sectoral stakeholders, and Basque civil society.

Period	5 Jun 2025 → 6 Jun 2025
Event type	Workshop
Location	Onati, SpainShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International