Sustaining the Ego

Wheeller, Brian

doi:10.1080/09669589309450710

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“…Several critics contend that there is in fact little evidence for the claim that there exists a particular type of ecotourist driving the industry's growth through a demand for eco-friendly experiences. Rather, these critics assert, consumers have simply responded to an increased supply of nature tourism services -what Sharpley (2006) calls a 'supply of nature' -developed by operators in search of profit through developing a niche market neglected (or created) by mass tourism (Wheeller 1993;Sharpley 2006).…”

Section: Explaining Tourism Growthmentioning

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Sustaining Tourism, Sustaining Capitalism? The Tourism Industry's Role in Global Capitalist Expansion

Fletcher

2011

Tourism Geographies

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This article contends that international tourism may be one important means by which the capitalist world-economy seeks to sustain itself in the face of inherent contradictions that threaten its long-term survival. Marxist critics have long identified an inevitable tendency towards crises of overproduction (over-accumulation) within the capitalist system, provoked by what Marx termed the central contradiction between imperatives of production and consumption. Subsequent analysts have highlighted a variety of so-called 'fixes' by which overproduction crises can be forestalled through spatial and/or temporal displacement of excess accumulated capital. Building upon this analysis, I outline a number of such fixes intrinsicto the development of the international tourism industry. In addition, I suggest that ecotourism development in particular provides additional fixes for capitalism's so-called 'second contradiction' between the imperative of continual growth and finite natural resources. In sum, I propose that advocacy of global 'sustainable tourism' by a transnational capitalist class may play an important role in sustaining capitalism as well.

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Section: Explaining Tourism Growthmentioning

confidence: 98%

Sustaining Tourism, Sustaining Capitalism? The Tourism Industry's Role in Global Capitalist Expansion

Fletcher

2011

Tourism Geographies

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“…The process of sustainable development is integrally linked to social and environmental integrity in order to produce equitable outcomes and the preservation of community culture (Butler 1998;Wheeller 1993;WCED 1987). Although social values were always implicit in the core idea of sustainability (European Commission 2007), they were rarely defi ned (Innes and Booher 2000).…”

Section: Benchmarking Sustainabilitymentioning

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Reviving the Mediterranean Olive Community

Zaferatos

2011

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

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This article presents the fi ndings of a collaborative investigation by six nongovernment organisations (NGOs) from fi ve European-Mediterranean countries to identify a framework for reversing rural marginalisation in Mediterranean communities through sustainable forms of community-based agricultural development. The project brought together knowledgeable community organisations, farming communities and experts to address systemic problems that continue to threaten the survival of rural agricultural communities. The investigation resulted in a framework for community

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“…As has been argued before (Butcher 2003;Butler 1999;Wheeller 1993) smallness does not automatically equate with sustainability, certainly not in terms of economics, one of the three "bottom lines", and not necessarily in terms of socialcultural or environmental aspects either (WCED 1987). One person in an inappropriate location may have a greater negative impact on both the environment and the resident population depending on their activities, than a much larger number in an appropriate location.…”

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Small is Beautiful, but Size can be Important

Butler¹

2011

Tourism Recreation Research

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Sustaining the Ego

Cited by 190 publications

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Sustaining Tourism, Sustaining Capitalism? The Tourism Industry's Role in Global Capitalist Expansion

Sustaining Tourism, Sustaining Capitalism? The Tourism Industry's Role in Global Capitalist Expansion

Reviving the Mediterranean Olive Community

Small is Beautiful, but Size can be Important

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