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Tourism development and natural capital

Alan Collins

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    Abstract

    The bulk of recent tourism-environment and sustainable tourismdevelopment literature can suggest the application of strong sustainability criteria. This is shown to be problematic since even such developmental practices may generate various classes of spillover effects that can frustrate genuine attainment of strong sustainability in tourism concentration, dispersal, or small-scale operation. At a broader sectoral level, tourism-centric development policies are also reasoned to be of inherently limited value in achieving strong sustainability objectives. Accordingly, by consideration of these problems it is argued that policy should be directed to facilitating more coordinated strategic planning intervention, rather than reliance on market instruments and processes. Le développment du tourisme et le capital naturel. La plus grande partie de la littérature récente sur le tourisme et lenvironnement et sur le tourisme soutenable peut suggérer lapplication de critères solides. On voit que le développement du tourisme soutenable est problématique, puisquil peut générer plusieurs sortes deffets dentraînement qui peuvent faire échouer la réalisation du tourisme soutenable dans des situations de concentration, de dispersion ou dopération à petite échelle. Au niveau plus large du secteur, on voit quune politique de développment qui est concentrée sur le tourisme a fondamentalement peu de valeur pour la réalisation du tourisme soutenable. On affirme donc que la politique doit sorienter vers lintervention de la planification stratégique plutôt que vers les instruments et les processus du marketing.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)98-109
    Number of pages12
    JournalAnnals of Tourism Research
    Volume26
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jan 1999

    UN SDGs

    This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    1. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
      SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
    2. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
      SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
    3. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
      SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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