Towards a Comprehensive Justice Tourism Framework: Integrating Multidimensional Justice

The concept of justice in tourism has garnered increasing scholarly attention, yet its practical enactment remains underexplored. This study addresses three critical questions: What constitutes justice tourism? How can it be realized? And who bears responsibility for its implementation? Employing a meta-synthesis of the existing literature, the study develops a comprehensive framework that integrates the core processes, substantive dimensions, and enabling conditions of justice tourism, while also identifying the roles of key stakeholders. Justice tourism is conceptualized through the lenses of recognition, interactional, procedural, distributive, and restorative justice, with its substantive dimensions encompassing economic, social, political, cultural, environmental, and spatial justice. The study also interrogates the consequences of injustice within tourism systems. It highlights institutional, social, and individual capacities as foundational prerequisites for advancing justice in tourism. Moreover, it delineates the responsibilities of governments, public and private sectors, and civil society in fostering more equitable and inclusive tourism futures. By bridging theoretical insights with practical guidance, this research offers a structured and actionable approach for embedding justice into tourism planning and governance.

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Tourism Development , Destinations , Justice , Framework , Meta-synthesis