Can we manage mass tourism for sustainable, equitable, and progressive outcomes?

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If one assumes that mass tourism is unavoidable without an authoritarian crackdown on mobility, what should be done about it?

Kevin Phun suggests that in every challenge lies an opportunity, and proposes how we might manage mass tourism for sustainable, equitable, and progressive outcomes.

It’s a “Good Tourism” Insight. (You too can write a “GT” Insight.)

In less than two hours’ time (as I write this), I will lead a webinar for the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) on almost exactly the same topic I am writing about here: exploring innovative strategies for mass tourism; to overcome it, mitigate its most negative effects, and even tap the opportunities it presents.

But are there opportunities?

Contents

• Mass tourism: The phenomenon, the issue, and the challenge
• Inevitable mass tourism: Time for a rethink?
• Sustainable mass tourism: A contradiction in terms?
• Manage mass tourism
• What do you think?
• About the author