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Table 1

Tourism trajectories: rejuvenation, stagnation or decline

Positive path development		Trajectories at the end of the tourist area lifecycle
1. Path branching	For a destination suffering from an overtourism scenario, the most relevant trajectories for the tourism sector to take are path branching or path diversification by developing new niche offers apart from quantitative growth in visitor numbers	Rejuvenation
2. Path diversification
3. Path importation	Path importation by developing new offers through investment from outside the destination
4. Path upgrading	Path upgrading by moving into higher value-added and/or more sustainable forms of tourism
5. Path extension	Butler's (1980, pp. 8–9) stagnation trajectory roughly corresponds to what the path development literature calls path extension	Stagnation
Negative path development
1. Path contraction		Decline
2. Path downgrading
3. Path dislocation
4. Path disappearance
Positive path development
6. Path creation	Path creation is an unlikely option at the end of the tourist area lifecycle because it does not lead to the rejuvenation of an existing tourism sector but refers to the initiation of a completely new industry, probably outside the tourism sector	Alternative trajectory

Positive path development		Trajectories at the end of the tourist area lifecycle
1. Path branching	For a destination suffering from an overtourism scenario, the most relevant trajectories for the tourism sector to take are path branching or path diversification by developing new niche offers apart from quantitative growth in visitor numbers	Rejuvenation
2. Path diversification
3. Path importation	Path importation by developing new offers through investment from outside the destination
4. Path upgrading	Path upgrading by moving into higher value-added and/or more sustainable forms of tourism
5. Path extension	Butler's (1980, pp. 8–9) stagnation trajectory roughly corresponds to what the path development literature calls path extension	Stagnation
Negative path development
1. Path contraction		Decline
2. Path downgrading
3. Path dislocation
4. Path disappearance
Positive path development
6. Path creation	Path creation is an unlikely option at the end of the tourist area lifecycle because it does not lead to the rejuvenation of an existing tourism sector but refers to the initiation of a completely new industry, probably outside the tourism sector	Alternative trajectory

Note(s): Adapted from Benner (2020, p. 5)