This volume examines various types of interventions by stakeholders - including public and private sectors, NGOs, and local communities - that aim to steer tourism toward positive impacts or prevent negative ones. By exploring both successful and unsuccessful cases, it offers insights into how tourism initiatives can shape destinations, contributing to sustainable development and resilience.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by island tourism destinations, focusing on policy and sustainable development. It offers theoretical and practical approaches to building resilience and sustainability in island tourism, addressing issues such as governance, environmental impact, and community involvement.

This case study of York, UK explores how regenerative tourism emerged as a grassroots response to the COVID-19 crisis. Through interviews with local stakeholders, the authors document how community-led, practice-based initiatives fostered new forms of engagement, collaboration, and ecological care in a historic urban setting. The study uses Bellato et al.'s regenerative tourism framework to show how stakeholder networks built capacity for cultural revival, local identity, and systemic transformation - illustrating the practical application of regenerative tourism principles in policy, urban planning, and destination recovery.

This edited volume explores how artificial intelligence can support regenerative tourism by helping destinations become more adaptive, efficient, and environmentally responsive. It includes chapters on AI-driven marketing, data mapping, and sustainability tools, highlighting the potential of technology to enhance cultural preservation, visitor management, and climate action in tourism.

This work offers a framework and practical guidance for regenerative tourism. The authors distinguish regeneration from sustainability by emphasizing active restoration of social and ecological systems - especially in post-colonial and tourism-saturated destinations. It outlines seven principles and five design dimensions to help tourism practitioners shift from extractive or neutral approaches toward place-based, regenerative outcomes rooted in systems thinking and Indigenous worldviews.

This review clarifies the concept of regenerative tourism by tracing its intellectual lineage, identifying misinterpretations, and proposing future pathways. It critiques superficial definitions like "leaving a place better than you found it," arguing instead for a paradigm shift rooted in living systems thinking, Indigenous knowledge systems, and place-based transformation. The authors outline three key themes in the current discourse - regenerative design, regenerative economy, and hybrid frameworks - while calling for a deeper ecological worldview and methodological pluralism to guide future tourism system transformations.

This foundational text traces the evolution of sustainable tourism and introduces regenerative tourism as a next step. By combining systems thinking with practical management tools, it equips readers to critically evaluate tourism’s impacts and to design more ethical, restorative approaches. It’s especially useful for understanding how regenerative goals build on - and move beyond - sustainability frameworks.

This paper argues that regenerative tourism requires a paradigmatic shift in how we think, plan, and engage with tourism systems. Drawing from 30 years of practice, Dredge outlines seven principles for regenerative tourism rooted in collaboration, ecology, agency, and continuous learning. She contrasts reductionist, market-driven models with holistic, place-based approaches, emphasizing the need to shift from “me” to “we” thinking. The paper identifies systems change, mindset shift, and bottom-up practice as the three levers for transformation - framing regeneration as a lifelong, co-created process rather than a prescriptive outcome.

While not explicitly “regenerative,” this foundational book remains vital to understanding how tourism intersects with Indigenous knowledge, sovereignty, and cultural continuity. It interrogates the risks of cultural commodification and uplifts examples of tourism as a tool for cultural resurgence and self-determination.