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Not only graduates but also fellow scholars

from other disciplines are interested in

investigating how tourism activities contribute

to wider societal changes such as sustainable

urbanization or sustainable mobility.

Leisure is identified as one of the top

consumptive activities of individuals, along

with clothing, food, shelter, travel

and sport and calls for increased cross-

sectoral collaboration are now emerging from

non-tourism actors. Tourism and sustainability

has captured the attention of editorial boards

of non-tourism publications, such as for

example Ecological Economics, a journal

dedicated to ―extending and integrating the

study and management of ―‘nature's

household‘ (ecology) and ‗humankind's

household‘ (economics)‖ but the number of

such papers published outside tourism journals

is still far too small compared with the number

published within tourism journals. Where

progress has been made, the Journal of

Cleaner Production (JCLP), a platform

dedicated to transdisciplinary inquiries that

stimulate progress towards sustainable

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