Authenticity, Equity and Sustainability in Tourism
- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Sustainable Tourism
- Vol. 10 (4) , 267-276
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09669580208667167
Abstract
Sustainability became a leading concept in tourism development practice and research, but should be submitted to a critical examination in the context of wider theoretical and practical concerns. Three issues are considered in this paper: the possible misuse of the concept of sustainability in advertisement and as a means of legitimising takeover of control over natural sites or cultural practices of local people by state agencies or private enterprises; the interface between the discourses of authenticity and sustainability; and the problems of equity provoked by restrictions of access to valuable sites, in the name of sustainability.Keywords
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