Embracing the more-than-human nature of tourism impacts Noel B. Salazar 2026, Annals of Tourism Research

https://www.academia.edu/170344906/Embracing_the_more_than_human_nature_of_tourism_impacts?email_work_card=title Tourism impact studies and associated policies have fallen short in addressing the sector's entanglement with planetary crises. A key shortcoming has been the inability of mainstream sustainable tourism frameworks to account for the role of the more-than-human in tourism impacts. To embrace the more-than-human nature of tourism impacts, this conceptual paper combines insights from sustainability sciences with reflections on the more-than-human in tourism studies. We argue that a more-than-human understanding of tourism impacts, which assumes processuality and relationality, can help address the problematic tendency to consider tourism as a system in its own right. Scholars should study tourism impact assemblages with a deep, affective, and imaginative engagement with humans and non-humans alike to pursue alternative, more caring futures.