There Is No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Re-Conceptualizing Tourism as a Tool for Sustainability
There Is No Such Thing as Sustainable Tourism: Re-Conceptualizing Tourism as a Tool for Sustainability
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DOI：
10.3390/su6052538
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发表时间：
2014-04
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3.9
通讯作者：
G. Moscardo;Laurie Murphy
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作者：
G. Moscardo;Laurie Murphy
全球对可持续发展的日益关注给企业带来了压力，要求企业证明其产品和服务的价值超越个人利润，并为其活动的负面影响承担责任。旅游业特别容易受到这种压力的影响，因为旅游业在社会、文化和环境负面影响方面的记录普遍较差，而且缺乏令人信服的证据表明旅游业对个体游客或目的地社区有利。虽然旅游影响的管理以及旅游与可持续发展之间的关系受到旅游学者的极大关注，但几乎没有证据表明旅游实践发生了任何重大变化。本文认为，这种变化的缺乏反映了旅游学者在概念化可持续旅游方面存在的问题。在回顾了可持续旅游业的这些问题之后，本文将为可持续旅游业提供一个替代框架，该框架侧重于生活质量的概念，认识到旅游业在当地和全球系统中的复杂性，坚持负责任的旅游业的原则，并明确评估旅游业作为可持续发展工具之一的价值。该框架的一个潜在应用将通过澳大利亚磁岛旅游业开发的案例研究来展示。
Increased global concern about sustainability has placed pressure on businesses to justify the value of their products and services beyond personal profit and to take responsibility for the negative impacts of their activities. Tourism is particularly susceptible to this pressure, given its generally poor track record in terms of negative social, cultural and environmental impacts, and the lack of compelling evidence of benefits for either the individual tourist or destination communities. While the management of tourism impacts and the relationship between tourism and sustainability have been paid considerable attention by tourism academics, there is little evidence of any significant change in tourism practice. This paper will argue that this lack of change reflects problems in the way tourism academics have conceptualized sustainable tourism. After reviewing these problems with sustainable tourism, this paper will offer an alternative framework for sustainable tourism that focuses on the concept of quality-of-life, recognizes the complexity of tourism within local and global systems, adheres to the principles of responsible tourism, and explicitly assesses the value of tourism as one tool, amongst many, for sustainability. One potential application of the framework will be demonstrated with a case study of tourism development on Magnetic Island in Australia.