A clear path towards sustainable mass tourism? Rejoinder to the paper 鈥極rganic, incremental and induced paths to sustainable mass tourism convergence鈥?by David B. Weaver
- 作者：Paul Peeters ; peeters.p@nhtv.nl
- 关键词：Sustainable development ; Mass tourism ; Systems thinking
- 刊名：Tourism Management
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：83_02615177
- 类别：bus
- 出版时间：October, 2012
- 卷：33
- 期：5
- 页码：1038-1041
- 文件大小：127 K
摘要
The paper forms a rejoinder to the paper by David Weaver (鈥極rganic, incremental and induced paths to sustainable mass tourism convergence鈥?. It fully agrees with David Weaver that a sustainable development of tourism should focus on sustainable mass tourism development and not, as is currently the case, so much on niche products labelled 鈥榮ustainable鈥? However, it critiques Weaver's operationalization of sustainability, his assumption that sustainable mass tourism (SMT) will be the 鈥榚mergent norm鈥?due to external factors, and his destination development theory showing different paths that, however, all end in SMT. Finally it is shown that the path development idea might be at odds with systems thinking.