Top Banner
Teaching about sustainable tourism? Professor Pete Burns With Dr Marina Novelli Centre for Tourism Policy Studies University of Brighton
12

Teaching about sustainable tourism?

Dec 31, 2015

Download

Documents

sonia-alvarado

Teaching about sustainable tourism?. Professor Pete Burns With Dr Marina Novelli Centre for Tourism Policy Studies University of Brighton. multiple perspectives on tourism (i). Performance 1 : acting out the tourist gaze and ‘seeing there’. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Welcome message from author
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Page 1: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

Teaching about sustainable tourism?

Professor Pete Burns

With

Dr Marina Novelli

Centre for Tourism Policy Studies

University of Brighton

Page 2: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

multiple perspectives on tourism (i)

Performance1: acting out the tourist gaze and ‘seeing there’

Co-presence3: temporary relationshi

ps of ‘being there’

Mobility2: people on the move and ‘going there’

1: Coleman, S. and Crang, M. eds. 2002

2: John Urry (various dates)

3: Shangyang Zhao (2003)

Page 3: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

Two areas of sustainability

• Sustainable livelihoods (community-based tourism, local clusters and networks)

• Environmentally sustainable futures (primarily climate change)

Page 4: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

Whose side are YOU on?

1. Tourism production and knowledge are not value free

2. Tourism knowledge develop in an institutional or environmental vacuum

3. The traditional binary divide of tourism as ‘business’ or ‘problem’ is not sufficiently nuanced

1 & 2 From an idea by Michael Hall 2005)

Page 5: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

Tourism education

1. CENTOPS explicitly frames tourism within social sciences theory and reflects on how tourism knowledge is used

2. Tourism production is predicated on human interaction with the natural environment

3. Introducing environmental concerns raises issues of equity, social justice and security as well as environmental sustainability

2 & 3 From an idea by Michael Hall 2005)

Page 6: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

Sustainability linked to ethics & values

• tourism uses and (abuses?) landscapes, townscapes, culturescapes, and the lives of others (ethnoscapes) as part of its core product

• Such relationships require sensitive individual social responsibility and complex corporate social responsibility

Page 7: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

Specifics: content/ approaches

• Community based tourism• Development studies/ anthropology/ visual

sociology• Tourism as vector and victim of climate change• The UG brochure for SSM is the only UoB UG

course that specifically refers to sustainable development: “the overarching theme of sustainability explores the socio-cultural economic and environmental issues and impacts related to tourism…”

Page 8: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

More specifics

• 32 of SSM modules claim to ‘encourage adoption of a different value/ attitude towards others/ the future’

• “In SSM tourism students talked in detail and enthusiastically about what sustainable development means to them as members of the local community, in their work and family lives and as future professionals…”

Jenny Elliot’s research into ESD at UoB)

Page 9: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

(ESD) Quotes from tourism students

• You never know what it really means so you can’t really get the concept and apply it to something that really makes sense…

• I think one of the main problems with this sustainability thing is that many people use it as a buzzword but they don’t really do anything…

• Companies tend to use it sort of as an advert because it sounds good and people believe them…

• They put it in their annual reports and all this as companies, but they don’t really do anything…they don’t distribute wealth in a sustainable manner…

• Its not just companies, its every level of society. The government does it all the time, sets unobtainable goals for 50 years time…

• If I go on holiday now, to some remote place, I’ll make sure I don’t just drink a can of coke, ‘cos the money will just run off somewhere else, I’ll try and buy something locally sourced… just try and help out…

Jenny Elliot’s research into ESD at UoB)

Page 10: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

Quote about the students

• “the focus groups (particularly SSM) revealed sustainable reflection on behalf of students concerning ways in which sustainable development challenged their own values and social and environmental behaviours as well as decision making on behalf of other stakeholders…”

Jenny Elliot’s research into sustainable education at UoB)

Page 11: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

“…we would welcome a good, deep, bloody recession for 12 to 18 months. We need one if we are going to see off some of this

environmental nonsense…”

Michael O’Leary, CEO, Ryanair (2008)

Be careful what you wish for…

Page 12: Teaching about sustainable tourism?

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) 1958

Literature tells us: “…If we want things to stay as they

are, things will have to change…”