Professor Ralf Vogler

Prof Ralf Vogler

Ralf Vogler

Ralf Vogler is a Pro­fess­or at the Insti­tute of Tour­ism, Travel & Hos­pit­al­ity (ITTH) at Heil­bronn Uni­ver­sity of Applied Sci­ences, Ger­many.

Prof Vogler’s research focuses on tour­ism policy and tour­ism devel­op­ment. Cur­rently, he is invest­ig­at­ing a vari­ety of power- and justice-related aspects of soci­et­al con­flicts in tour­ism and trans­form­a­tion processes.

Is there a right to travel or be a tourist in a world of limits?

, and June 4, 2026
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Is travel & tour­ism a human right or elite priv­ilege? As res­id­ents protest against over­tour­ism and des­tin­a­tions intro­duce vis­it­or caps, is it time to rethink our free­dom of movement?

Ralf Vogler, Nadja Sch­weiggart, and Adri­an Müller out­line how we might dis­tin­guish between neces­sary travel and dis­cre­tion­ary tour­ism con­sump­tion and pro­pose a ‘stair­case mod­el’ of ascend­ing justifications.

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