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Item Regenerating tourism and regenerating people: how tourism is achieving justice for Indigenous youths(Taylor and Francis Group, 2025-09-18) Scheyvens R; Kaire-Gataulu T; Coghlan AIn 2023 a novel Indigenous tourism venture was launched. This initiative, Native Nations–Tracing Indigenous Footsteps, offers a culturally immersive overseas exchange programme for Indigenous youths. It seeks to build solidarity, uplift youths, offer emancipatory tourism experiences, heal injustice, and reconnect them to sources of their strength and identity. As such, it offers an alternative approach and ethos to dominant approaches to tourism development. This paper examines the experience and outcomes of the first Native Nations exchange which involved a group of Aotearoa New Zealand Māori youths and a group of Australian Aboriginal youths. It frames this in the context of literature on justice tourism, Indigenous tourism, and regenerative tourism. Advocates of these approaches, variously, aim to restore people and environments through tourism experiences, to build solidarity between visitors and the visited, and to uphold Indigenous cultures and values. The research finds, firstly, that we need more focus on Indigenous people as tourists, and secondly, that regenerative tourism could have more transformative impacts if it explicitly incorporated tourism as justice, focusing attention on regenerating people who are often excluded from tourism’s benefits.Item Te Awa Tupua: Peace, justice and sustainability through Indigenous tourism(Taylor and Francis Group, 2021-04-16) Mika J; Scheyvens RTe Awa Tupua is an ancestor of the Māori people of Whanganui, and is also the Whanganui River, who in 2017 was formally recognised as a person. While legally conferring personhood upon an element of nature is relatively novel, it recognises a fundamental principle of indigeneity, that all things—human and nonhuman—are related. We explore intersections of peace, justice, and sustainability through Indigenous tourism in case studies of three Māori tourism enterprises on Te Awa Tupua (the Whanganui River). Our paper spotlights three findings. First, that treaty settlements elevate the status of Māori knowledge and contain elements of peace-making and economy-making as decolonising projects of self-determined development. Second, while indigeneity is foundational, we found that syncretism is evident in the sustainability of Māori tourism enterprises. Third, we uncovered a socioecological dissonance in attitudes towards commercial growth, with Māori tourism enterprises opting for slower and lower growth in favour of environmental and community wellbeing. We propose a model of Indigenous tourism called kaupapa tāpoi. We conclude by suggesting that reconciling differences in viewpoints on sustainability and growth between Māori and non-Māori tourism enterprises will require involvement of several institutional actors, starting with Te Awa Tupua.