Subsidiarity in tourism and travel circuits in the face of climate crisis

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

Current Issues in Tourism, 2023, vol. 26, issue 19, 3091-3101

Abstract: Recent work from climate scientists and reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest the need for innovative thinking in tourism to address the climate change threat and other crises. Ecological concerns and social injustices have prompted degrowth thinking in tourism. Using the notion of proximity tourism as a springboard, this article introduces the concept of subsidiarity in tourism and travel circuits. Proximity travel describes touring nearer to home and subsidiarity describes a prioritization of narrower travel circuits in the interests of reducing tourism’s contribution to climate change, as well as underpinning local thriving through more localized tourism. This article offers a framework and suggests policy approaches to implementing subsidiarity in tourism, with attention to climate just mobility.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2022.2116306

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