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.

This project lays the ground for a larger funding bid for a collaborative project on Sustainable Tourism from a socio-legal perspective with academic and non-academic partners. It builds on existing academic networks and initial expressions of interest with decision-makers, stakeholders in the tourism sector, and civil society organisations.

Planned activities respond to critical gaps in existing knowledge. They will bring together a diverse team of academics, stakeholders and decision-makers, based in Scotland and abroad, and invite them to co-produce an agenda for future socio-legal impact-driven research on sustainable tourism.

• Funder: University of Strathclyde’s International Strategic Partnership Fund
• Law School researchers: Dr Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann and Dr Mara Ntona