Tourism and development in Southeast Asia: Concluding remarks and future outlook

This chapter offers concluding remarks on the contributions in this volume. It first creates a summary by highlighting some overarching themes that emerged in the discussion on tourism and development in Southeast Asia. These include aspects such as community participation, livelihood diversification, urban-rural relationships, the breaking down of binaries, and the underused potential for tourism in the region. It then features a future outlook for tourism when used as a development engine in Southeast Asia, including structural changes, changing markets, new types of tourism and destinations, the SDGs and alternative development.