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This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits.

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is Adjunct, Business Unit, Adelaide University, Australia and Adjunct Professor, Taylor's University, Malaysia.

Bobbie Chew Bigby is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Waterloo (Canada), an Adjunct Research Fellow at Nulungu Research Institute (Australia) and a Lecturer at NYU Tulsa (United States). Bobbie’s research explores the ways that tourism can be a tool for cultural resurgence among Indigenous and post-conflict communities. Bobbie looks beyond tourism’s economic potential alone and seeks to understand how tourism can help people (re)connect with culture, community and Country (living lands and waters).