NS34 Session 3

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Title: Tourism Innovation for Regenerative Futures

Organisers: Olga Høegh‑Guldberg, Dorthe Eide, and Lars Fuglsang 

Affiliation: Nord University, Roskilde University

Description

Tourism is increasingly expected to contribute positively to societal and environmental well‑being. The capacity of tourism to act as “an active agent for good” depends not only on innovative ideas, but on the enabling conditions that allow innovation to thrive across organizations, communities, and destinations. This session explores such enabling conditions, drawing on insights from the forthcoming Handbook of Research on Innovation in Tourism Industries, which examines emerging approaches to innovation across several domains, including open and collaborative innovation, experience‑based innovation, sustainable and regenerative innovation, and innovation driven by digitalization and new technologies.

The book highlights the growing need for innovation that responds to wicked problems, climate‑related challenges, shifting visitor needs, cross‑sector tensions, and transformations at organizational, destination, and societal levels. Against this backdrop, the session invites contributions that address enablers of tourism innovation such as relational and network conditions, resource configurations, competencies and capabilities, governance and policy frameworks, contextual drivers, and broader systemic factors.

We particularly welcome submissions on collaborative or network-driven innovation, regenerative destination practices, digital enablers of new business models and experiences, and the governance structures that shape innovation capacity. The session aims to foster knowledge exchange, stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue, and offer insights relevant to advancing regenerative and transformative futures in tourism.