Butler asks: How do we solve one of the great conundrums of ‘sustainable’ tourism?
“Interesting range of views”, Richard Butler (of Tourism Area Life Cycle model fame) writes in the comments section of the “GT” Insight Bites on opportunities and threats to tourism in 2025.
“How do we square the first response re air travel and the second and fourth positive responses about tourism in [Southeast] Asia where many of the visitors rely on air transport to get there from their origins?
“If anyone can resolve the contradictions, they will solve one of the great conundrums of supposed ‘sustainable’ tourism; travel to most self-styled sustainable destinations is almost always mostly by air.”
And so your correspondent put the challenge to “GT’s” network and received three interesting responses: from C Michael Hall, Geoffrey Lipman, and Jonathon Day, in that order.
Thanks also to K Michael Haywood who was the only respondent to a question about meritocracy in tourism media; a topic close to your correspondent’s heart given the “GT” platform and its mission to advance viewpoint diversity. Prof Haywood’s thoughtful response is honoured here as a “GT” Insight BiteX.
Bites menu
- Less long-haul, more ‘polluter pays’ | C Michael Hall, Professor, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- ‘Guaranteed routes’ to needy places | Geoffrey Lipman, President & co-founder, SUNx Malta
- Externalities: ‘… so the entire global aviation fleet must be replaced’ | Jonathon Day, Associate Professor at Purdue University, Indiana, USA
- “GT” Insight BiteX (‘X’ is up to you)
- BiteX: ‘Mediacracy’ in tourism | K Michael Haywood, publisher, ‘Destinations-in-Action’, Canada
- What do you think?
- Previous “GT” Insight Bites
