Tazim Jamal

Dr Tazim Jamal (Pic: Barbados Advocate)

Dr Tazim Jamal (Pic: Bar­ba­dos Advocate)

Tazim Jamal is Pro­fess­or in the Depart­ment of Recre­ation, Park and Tour­ism Sci­ences at Texas A&M Uni­ver­sity, Texas, USA. Dr Jamal’s primary research areas are sus­tain­able tour­ism, col­lab­or­at­ive tour­ism plan­ning, and cul­tur­al her­it­age man­age­ment. She is the author of Justice and Eth­ics in Tour­ism (Rout­ledge, 2019), co-edit­or of Justice and Tour­ism: Prin­ciples and Approaches for Loc­al-Glob­al Sus­tain­ab­il­ity and Well-Being (Rout­ledge, 2021), co-edit­or of The SAGE Hand­book of Tour­ism Stud­ies (2009), and Asso­ci­ate Edit­or of the Spring­er Encyc­lo­pe­dia of Tour­ism, 2nd edi­tion. Tazim is also Fel­low of the Inter­na­tion­al Academy for the Study of Tour­ism (the “Academy”).

Travel & tourism degrowth to what end? Relationships that matter

July 26, 2022

Degrowth is about relationships that matter. Image by Sasin Tipchai (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/grandmother-kids-laptop-myanmar-1822560/

‘Tour­ism degrowth’ is viewed sus­pi­ciously by some as a con­spir­acy to tear down cap­it­al­ism and vastly reduce travel.  Accord­ing to Tazim Jamal, how­ever, tour­ism degrowth is much more about fos­ter­ing heal­ing and nur­tur­ing rela­tion­ships with people and our plan­et. And she thinks that we should tran­scend labels and divi­sions. Between 2009 and 2019, real growth […]

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Towards a new paradigm for regenerative tourism and just futures

June 8, 2021
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Regeneration. Image by congerdesign (CC0) via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/photos/plant-sow-grow-growing-trays-4036131/

The COV­­ID-induced travel & tour­ism depres­sion has caused and exacer­bated suf­fer­ing. In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, aca­dem­ic Tazim Jamal sum­mar­ises the oppor­tun­it­ies that she sees for ‘heal­ing’, ‘justice’, and ‘equity’ as our industry recov­ers. [Thanks to Joseph M Cheer for invit­ing Dr Jamal to write a “GT” Insight.] Tour­ism is a multi-bil­lion-dol­lar industry. It employs […]

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