Raymond Rastegar, Griffith University

Rami K. Isaac, Bethlehem University

Andrew Mzembe, Breda University of Applied Sciences

Lisa Ruhanen, The University of Queensland

The tourism sector faces profound sustainability challenges including climate crises, socioeconomic inequalities, and biodiversity loss. While green transitions and net-zero initiatives have gained prominence, they often remain focused on technical solutions rather than addressing the political dimensions of change. This special issue seeks work that critically examines who benefits from transitions, who bears the burdens, and whose voices are included in governance processes.

The special issue advances the concept of Just Sustainability Transition (JST) to move beyond narrow carbon and labour-focused agendas toward interrogating fundamental questions about power, equity, and historical context. It recognizes that sustainability transitions in tourism are embedded in structural inequalities and shaped by global power asymmetries. The issue welcomes theoretical, conceptual, and empirical contributions using intersectional, decolonial, ecological, feminist, Indigenous, and multispecies justice perspectives to illuminate tensions and transformative potentials in sectoral transitions.

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Potential topics

• Governance frameworks and institutional innovations for embedding justice in tourism transitions
• Power, agency, and the role of private and public actors in driving (or resisting) transitions
• Just sustainability transition imaginaries and realities across geographies: Global South and Global North perspectives
• Intermediaries, social movements, labour unions and civil society in shaping justice-oriented transitions
• Tourism workers' rights, precarity, and vulnerability in the context of transition
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation through the lens of climate justice
• Multispecies justice and posthuman perspectives in sustainable tourism
• Gender justice and intersectionality in transition governance
• Island and Indigenous tourism economies: toward self-determined transition pathways
• Transition tourism: exploring new business models and regenerative alternatives
• Methodologies for researching justice in sustainability transitions
• Temporality and just transitions

Timeline

• February 20, 2026: Abstract deadline
• September 30, 2026: Manuscript deadline