Evidence-informed Sustainable Tourism

Michael Volgger is Professor with the School of Management and Marketing at Curtin University in Australia. He is Curtin’s Discipline Lead of Tourism, Hospitality and Events. Michael’s areas of expertise span questions of transformation, governance and innovation in tourism destination management and consumer behaviour.Joseph M. Cheer is Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Heritage in the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia. From 2021 to 2025, Joseph ranked in the Top 2% of researchers in the Sport, Leisure and Tourism field. He has been Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Q1 journal Tourism Geographies since 2020Christof Pforr is Professor of Tourism in the School of Management & Marketing at Curtin University, Australia. His past and current research is inter- and multidisciplinary and has focused on four interconnected areas: sustainability, tourism public policy, destination governance, and special interest tourism.

• 1. Evidence-informed decision-making in sustainable tourism: from research to action 2. Bridging the science-policy gap in sustainable tourism: evidence from a multiple case study analysis of UNWTO INSTO sustainable tourism observatories 3. Co-learning through participatory evaluation: an example using Theory of Change in a large-scale EU-funded tourism intervention 4. Stakeholders’ involvement in an evidence-based sustainable tourism plan 5. A participatory waste policy reform for the hotel sector: evidence of a progressive Pay-As-You-Throw tariff 6. A regulation for inappropriate interactions between local children and tourists in poor destinations - a child rights informed practice 7. An evidence-base for reducing the CO2 emissions of national mega sports events: application of the three-hub model to the Japan 2019 Rugby World Cup 8. Macro-scale decarbonisation of tourism: insights from Australia 9. Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations: a food waste perspective