1 Sustainable Mass Tourism: Toward Unequal Convergence of Paradigms & Scales Presented at The Business of Sustainable Tourism Symposium Curtin University February 18, 2013 By Professor David Weaver Dept. of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management Griffith University
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Sustainable Mass Tourism:
Toward Unequal Convergence of Paradigms & Scales
Presented at The Business of Sustainable Tourism Symposium
Curtin University February 18, 2013
By
Professor David Weaver Dept. of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management
Griffith University
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>1945 Mass Tourism
Technical/managerial Large-scale
>1980 Alternative Tourism
Ethical Small-scale
<1990 ‘pre-sustainability’ era ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>1990 ‘sustainability’ era
Thesis Antithesis
Sustainable Tourism
Synthesis?
Dialectical approach
Resolution-based dialectics = extract the best from each (evolution)
Conflict-based dialectics = one overthrows the other (revolution)