

In this viewpoint paper, we build upon the work of Raworth and introduce The Doughnut Destination as an alternative perspective to examine tourism destinations and better manage them. Second, it offers an overarching perspective seeking wider system transformation, which we believe is crucial, as well as still underdeveloped in tourism studies, to counter the still quite dominant growth-oriented, boosterism-inspired ways of developing tourism destinations ( Hartman, 2022). related to regenerative tourism, resilience, transitions thinking, purpose economy and carrying capacity. First, it advocates a welcome paradigm shift that resonates well with current lines of thinking in tourism, which need to be connected further, e.g. Surprisingly, this innovative way of thinking has not been applied yet in a tourism context hence, we think the approach has great potential for improving future tourism destination management. She elaborates seven ways to rethink economic development. In this book, she proposes a visual framework for sustainable development – shaped like a doughnut or lifebelt – combining the concept of planetary boundaries with the complementary concept of social boundaries ( Raworth, 2017).

In 2017, Kate Raworth published the influential book “ Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist”. The full terms of this licence may be seen at. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Copyright © 2022, Stefan Hartman and Jasper Hessel Heslinga License
