C. Michael Hall is a Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent in Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; Visiting Professor in Tourism at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden; and a Guest Professor in the Department of Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden. He has written widely on tourism, regional development, heritage, food and global environmental change.

Linda Lundmark is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research interests among others are tourism, mobility, climate change and natural resources as part of contemporary and future development prospects in rural and sparsely populated areas in the far North. She is currently the chair of the Centre of Regional Science scientific advisory board and has received funding for several large research projects from Swedish research councils. She is also part of several research networks on tourism and tourism in polar areas.

Jundan Jasmine Zhang is a Postdoc at the Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. She has a PhD in Tourism from University of Otago, New Zealand. Her main research interest lies in understanding the relationships between human and 'nature' in the context of global tourism. Jasmine has published in journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Tourism Geographies, on subjects ranging from political ecology of tourism to tourism methodologies. She is currently doing research under the project SVALUR - Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Environmental Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard where she is dedicated to bringing forward the multiplicity of knowledge on environmental changes through environmental humanitarian approaches.

1. Introduction: Degrowth and tourism: implications and challenges. Part 1: Degrowth and Tourism Entrepreneurship. 2. Decommodification as a socially embedded practice: The example of lifestyle enterprise in animal-based tourism. 3. Lifestyle entrepreneurs as agents of degrowth: The case of nature-based tourism businesses in Scandinavia. 4. Mobility transitions and rural restructuring in Sweden: a database study of holistic simplifiers. Part 2: Degrowth and Tourism Destinations. 5. Diverse tourism: A poststructural view on tourism destination degrowth transition. 6. Global importance, local problems: Degrowth in Italian World Heritage destinations. 7. Opportunities and barriers for degrowth in remote tourism destinations: overcoming regional inequalities? 8. Degrowth as a strategy for adjusting to the adverse impacts of climate change in a nature-based destination. Part 3: Degrowth and Tourism Policy. 9. Sustainable growth in tourism? Rethinking and resetting sustainable tourism for development. 10. Rethinking tourism: degrowth and equity rights in developing community-centric tourism. 11. Community-based tourism and degrowth. 12. Don't leave town till you've seen the country: Domestic tourism as a degrowth strategy. 13. Degrowing Tourism: Can Grassroots Form the Norm? 14. COVID-19 pandemic, tourism and degrowth. 15. Conclusions - Degrowing tourism: Can tourism move beyond BAU (Brundtland-as-Usual)?