Critical terms in futures studies

“Hope” and “optimism” remain and encourage to “time travel” into a “utopian” world, start “dreaming” and “imagining” how life after the global pandemic and the COVID-19 crisis might look like. Despite tourism’s decisive role as a driver of economic prosperity, its share of 8% of global greenhouse emissions in 2018 making it also one of the contributors of human-induced impacts, and the sustainability of the industry is constantly challenged. The author uses the example of sharing economy to demonstrate how basically everything can be monetised, from personal possessions to time and establishes clear links to the tourism industry

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Futures contract · Optimism · Political economy · Political science · Prosperity · Sustainability · Tourism · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Law · Psychology · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Social Psychology