This chapter discusses and problematizes the idea of empowerment as a condition for just tourism governance. Namely, the chapter proposes a forward-looking notion of tourism governance that integrates and connects justice and resident empowerment. Moreover, the chapter argues that the principle of empowerment must reach beyond the political realm and embrace empowerment's economic, social, environmental, and psychological domains. To that end, we first define what just tourism governance entails through the lens of Fraser's (2008) tripartite justice framework (distribution, recognition, and representation) and position empowerment as an essential component of just tourism governance. Then, we explore interdependencies between just governance and resident empowerment and how a multidimensional understanding and application of empowerment fulfill the principle of just tourism governance.