Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability?

<p>Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability? challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to tourism development over the last two decades. It extends the sustainable tourism debate beyond the arguably managerialist 'blueprint' and destination-focused approach that continues to characterise even the most recent 'sustainability' agenda within tourism development. Reviewing the evolution of the sustainable tourism development concept its contemporary manifestations in academic literature and policy developments and processes the author compares its limitations to prevailing political-economic socio-cultural and environmental contexts. He then proposes alternative approaches to tourism development which nevertheless retain environmental sustainability as a prerequisite of tourism development. This book also acts as an introduction to the Earthscan series Tourism Environment and Development.</p> <p>About the series: </p> <p>'Tourism Environment and Development' aims to explore within a variety of contexts the developmental role of tourism as it relates explicitly to its environmental consequences. Each book will review critically and challenge 'traditional' perspectives on (sustainable) tourism development exploring new approaches that reflect contemporary economic socio-cultural and political contexts.</p>