Revisiting tourism taxes: a justice-oriented approach to redistributing revenue

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Mandić, Ante
Rastegar, Raymond
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2025
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This paper advances a justice-oriented critique of tourism taxation, arguing that prevailing distributive frameworks inadequately address the structural and intergenerational inequities tourism often reproduces. We adopt a regenerative justice paradigm that reconceptualises taxation as a proactive instrument for socio-ecological repair, participatory governance, and community resilience. Drawing from critical theory and emerging policy innovations, we articulate a four-dimensional model rooted in recognition, accountability, care, and sustainability. By repositioning taxation as a catalyst for transformative justice rather than a technical or compensatory fix, this work offers a timely conceptual intervention into contemporary tourism governance, with relevance for scholars, policymakers, and communities alike.

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Current Issues in Tourism

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Impacts of tourism

Taxation accounting

Marketing

Tourism

Human geography

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Mandić, A; Rastegar, R, Revisiting tourism taxes: a justice-oriented approach to redistributing revenue, Current Issues in Tourism, 2025

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