From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination

David Italo Flood Chavez; Piotr Niewiadomski; T  Jones

doi:10.1080/14616688.2023.2280179

From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination

David Italo Flood Chavez^* (Corresponding Author), Piotr Niewiadomski, T Jones

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Curtin University

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Abstract

Until the end of WW2, the Margaret River region (MRR) was a popular domestic destination based on cave explorations. A series of incremental innovations between the 1950s and 1990s reconfigured the destination into a thriving international tourism destination that offers diverse experiences based on wine, surf, and nature. Nonetheless, contemporary external and internal forces are stimulating another shift – one towards sustainability. Apart from the
global pro-sustainability agenda, this sustainability transition in tourism is mainly driven by two emerging niches: eco-accreditation and grassroots organisations. This paper adopts the multilevel perspective (MLP) – a commonly adopted framework in the sustainability transitions research field – and combines it with a typology of tourism innovation to examine the evolution of the MRR as a tourist destination. The paper addresses the ongoing sustainability transition in the MRR and discusses both top-down and bottom-up initiatives that stimulate it. In order to provide a holistic view of this transition, the paper also pays attention to the first transition in the destination (i.e. from caves to wine, surf, and nature), and examines its influence on the ongoing sustainability transition. As such, this paper aims to help bridge the gap between tourism geography and the interdisciplinary field of sustainability transitions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	173-193
Number of pages	21
Journal	Tourism Geographies
Volume	26
Issue number	2
Early online date	10 Nov 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2023.2280179
Publication status	Published - Mar 2024

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Acknowledgments
To the Aberdeen – Curtin alliance, the interviewees, and Dr Roy Jones. For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

Keywords

Sustainability transitions
historical transitions
geography of sustainability transitions
multilevel perspective (MLP)
sustainability transitions in tourism
tourism innovation
grassroots organisations
eco-destination accreditation
Margaret River region
Australia

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