Journal
JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 29-48Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2017.1308372
Keywords
Sustainable development; paradigm change; tourism stakeholder; policy-making; neo-liberalism; political economy
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The established mindset underpinning tourism planning, development and research is under attack from many quarters on the grounds that business as usual seems impossible to reconcile with sustainability. The paper first highlights key characteristics of the prevailing paradigm associated with tourism industry expansion globally. It then identifies common elements of an alternative sustainable futures paradigm, contrasting its features with those of the established paradigm in relation to seven fundamental elements: neo-liberalism, anthropocentrism, shareholder orientation, growth, price, space and promotion. Next, the paper identifies the implications of the alternative paradigm in terms of the underpinning mindset (attitudes and behaviours) of major tourism stakeholders. Pathways to facilitate the transition to the new sustainable futures' paradigm are identified. The paper concludes with reflections on the power of the new paradigm, and its implications for a global sustainable tourism research and action agenda.
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