Prof Soile Veijola on tourism studies, overtourism, the present, and the future

Professor Soile Veijola. Photo by Kaisa Sirén. “GT” cropped the photo and added the quote.

For all its diverse ontologies and epistemologies, tourism academia and research have not influenced industry practice as much as it could have, according to Soile Veijola. That puts her hopes of an ‘ethical turn’ in tourism at risk and has her worried about the future of the phenomenon.

Professor Veijola participated in a Tourism’s Horizon Interview. For this “Good Tourism” Insight, Vilhelmiina Vainikka summarises the highlights.

Contents

• Who is Professor Soile Veijola?
• Tourism studies vs tourism realities
• On diverse and multidisciplinary approaches to tourism studies
• ‘Tourism planning has not evolved at all in 40 years’
• ‘Overtourism’ and dreaming of an ‘ethical turn’
• Mass tourism and contemporary culture
• The future of tourism
• What do you think?
• About the author
• About the Tourism’s Horizon Interviews