Purpose

The aims of this paper are to share how one cohort of tourism practitioners viewed the transformative change needed within the tourism industry and to explore the implications for leadership in the future.

Design/methodology/approach

The research design is based on a virtual whiteboard brainstorming activity incorporating both the individual and collective thinking of 20 participants in a global cohort class. Using conversational techniques to elicit cognitive knowledge and felt experience, the methodology generates shared understandings about the opportunities and challenges of implementing regenerative tourism.

Findings

The conversations reported in the findings of this paper provide important insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by tourism professionals as enablers of regenerative tourism. Findings included, first, that participants within the course demonstrated characteristics of transformational leadership including a strong moral positioning, embodied self-awareness, collaboration and collective action. Second, specific points of inertia that impede regenerative tourism are identified including embedded culture, power and organisational structures. Third, professionals are calling for practical tools, new frames of reference, and examples to help communicate regenerative tourism.

Research limitations/implications

This is a viewpoint, not a research paper. Nonetheless, it provides a rich vein of future research in terms of disruptive pedagogy, potentially gendered interest in regenerative tourism, issues of transforming the next generation and power.

Practical implications

Governance, organisational, destination management strategies, planning and policy frameworks, individual issues as well as contradictions within the tourism system were revealed. Transformative change in an uncertain future requires transformational leadership, characterised by moral character and behaviours that trigger empowered responses.

Originality/value

This paper shares insights from a unique global cohort class of tourism professionals wherein the challenges and opportunities for regenerative tourism are identified. The methodology is unusual in that it incorporates both individual and collective thinking through which shared understandings emerge.

中文翻译：

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再生旅游：变革型领导的挑战

目的

本文的目的是分享一组旅游从业者如何看待旅游业所需的变革性变革，并探讨对未来领导力的影响。

设计/方法/方法

该研究设计基于一个虚拟白板头脑风暴活动，该活动结合了全球队列课程中 20 名参与者的个人和集体思维。该方法使用对话技术来获取认知知识和感受体验，从而对实施再生旅游的机遇和挑战产生共同的理解。

发现

本文研究结果中报告的对话为旅游专业人士作为再生旅游推动者所面临的挑战和机遇提供了重要见解。调查结果包括，首先，课程中的参与者表现出变革型领导的特征，包括强烈的道德定位、体现的自我意识、协作和集体行动。其次，确定了阻碍再生旅游的特定惯性点，包括嵌入的文化、权力和组织结构。第三，专业人士呼吁使用实用工具、新的参考框架和示例来帮助交流再生旅游。

研究限制/影响

这是一个观点，而不是研究论文。尽管如此，它在颠覆性教学法、对再生旅游的潜在性别兴趣、改变下一代和权力的问题方面为未来的研究提供了丰富的脉络。

实际影响

治理、组织、目的地管理战略、规划和政策框架、个别问题以及旅游系统内的矛盾都被揭示出来。在不确定的未来进行变革性变革需要变革性领导，其特点是道德品格和行为能够引发强有力的反应。

原创性/价值

本文分享了独特的全球旅游专业人士群体的见解，其中确定了再生旅游的挑战和机遇。该方法的不同寻常之处在于，它结合了个人和集体的思维，由此产生了共同的理解。