Sustainable tourism in sensitive environments : a wolf in sheep's clothing?

Butler, Richard (2018) Sustainable tourism in sensitive environments : a wolf in sheep's clothing? Sustainability, 10 (6). 1789. ISSN 2071-1050

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/su10061789

Abstract

Sustainable tourism has become a widely adopted term that has allowed many tourism developments to take place under its rubric that are less than sustainable and have been located in sensitive areas that have not all been suitable for such development. The paper reviews the origin and shortcomings of the concept and some of the implications of the resulting problems. It argues for a more critical review of so-called sustainable forms of tourism and for a focus to shift towards increasing the resilience of destinations, particularly those in sensitive areas, in order to shield them from the effects of inappropriate or excessive tourism development.

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Item type:	Article
ID code:	64442
Dates:	Date Event 29 May 2018 Published 19 May 2018 Accepted
Keywords:	resilience, sensitive environments, sustainable tourism, tourism effects, Social Sciences, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
Subjects:	Social Sciences
Department:	Strathclyde Business School > Hospitality and Tourism Management Strathclyde Business School
Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
Date deposited:	14 Jun 2018 08:29
Last modified:	23 Sep 2021 06:48
Related URLs:	Scopus publication Journal or Publication
URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/64442

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