Conservative Politics and the Tourism Industry: Realities and Prospects
Topicality. This article studies the positioning of tourism and hospitality sectors in the US modern conservative political views, using Donald Trump’s public statements and strategic document of the conservative movement for reform managing in the US, entitled Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership”...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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KNUKiM Publishing Centre
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Ресторанний і готельний консалтинг: Інновації |
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| Online Access: | http://restaurant-hotel.knukim.edu.ua/article/view/334867 |
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| Summary: | Topicality. This article studies the positioning of tourism and hospitality sectors in the US modern conservative political views, using Donald Trump’s public statements and strategic document of the conservative movement for reform managing in the US, entitled Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership”. The research highlights how key ideological tendencies, including national security, economic protectionism, cultural conservatism and even isolationism, intersect with political discourse related to travelling, tourism and hospitality. The main objective and research methods. The goals of this study are to analyse the attitude of representatives of the conservative movement of the US to the development of the tourism industry, to determine how modern American conservative political priorities shape the discourse and regulation of tourism-related topics, to identify new types of tourism Donald Trump’s administration refers to. Methodology: the article applies quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the political manifesto “Project–2025”, supplemented with discourse analysis of President Donald Trump’s public statements during last 15 years (2010–2025), including his both presidential terms, as well as other leaders’ of the US conservative movement. Results. Conservative politics view tourism as economically beneficial only when it is aligned with national values, but also as a risk factor when associated with liberal policy or transnational mobility. New types of tourism are identified, which the leaders of the American conservative movement define as a negative phenomenon: birth tourism, abortion tourism, propaganda tours. Conclusions and discussions. The results of the study indicate the bifurcated attitude of the conservative movement to the development of the tourism industry. The scientific novelty and results of this research are of practical importance in the context of advocacy of the tourism and hospitality industry, policy reform and sector sustainability.
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| ISSN: | 2616-7468 2617-9504 |