Activating Critical Thinking to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals in Tourism Systems focuses on the role of critical thinking and inquiry in the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in tourism systems.

Karla A. Boluk, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Utilizing a critical lens, she investigates ways to sustainably engage and empower communities, positioning tourism as a mechanism for the creation of positive change.

Christina T. Cavaliere, Ph.D., is a conservation social scientist. Her research involves the human dimensions of socio-ecological systems including tourism impacts and biocultural conservation. She serves as an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University, USA, and has experience working with universities, communities, businesses, non-governmental organizations, and multilateral institutions on six continents.

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management at the University of South Australia. Her work focuses on human rights and justice issues in tourism. She has worked with communities, non-governmental organizations, and businesses that seek to harness tourism for sustainable and equitable futures.

1. A critical framework for interrogating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda in tourism 2. A pedagogical framework for the development of the critical tourism citizen 3. Overcommitted to tourism and under committed to sustainability: the urgency of teaching "strong sustainability" in tourism courses 4. No sustainability for tourism without gender equality 5. Assessing gender representation in knowledge production: a critical analysis of UNWTO's planned events 6. Gender and sustainability - exploring ways of knowing - an ecohumanities perspective 7. The land has voice: understanding the land tenure - sustainable tourism development nexus in Micronesia 8. Critical discourse analysis and the questioning of dominant, hegemonic discourses of sustainable tourism in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve, South Africa 9. Rethinking the ideology of responsible tourism 10. Sustaining precarity: critically examining tourism and employment 11. Rethinking decent work: the value of dignity in tourism employment 12. Constructing sustainable tourism development: The 2030 agenda and the managerial ecology of sustainable tourism 13. Can tourism help to "end poverty in all its forms everywhere"? The challenge of tourism addressing SDG1 14. The critical capacities of restaurants as facilitators for transformations to sustainability