Abstract
Editorial on the Research Topic: UN International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples: Indigenous tourism and cultural revitalization: impacts, opportunities and collaborative approaches
As we approach the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9 August 2025), this Research Topic enables reflections on Indigenous Peoples' experiences when participating in tourism and related activities. Cultural revitalization and the return of Indigenous lands or recognition of Indigenous peoples' relationships to the natural world has unfolded in diverse ways depending on location, history and contemporary political context. Many Indigenous tourism activities occur in communities whose geographical regions have difficult and unsettling colonial legacies. Globally there is a repetitive history of tourism facilitating displacement and cultural repression but more recently enabling livelihoods, cultural empowerment and revitalization (Butler and Hinch, 1996, 2007).