Moral Limits of the Market: The Impossibility of Balanced Tourism Development

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    Abstract

    Scholars and the practice community unanimously advocate sustainable balanced and sensitive tourism development. Engaging with locals and setting up public-private partnerships are frequently championed. This working paper introduces a set of lenses in the moral philosophy tradition and argues that the current pragmatic solutions to sustainable tourism development could not resolve issues of authenticity, equity, rights and fairness. There are three in-built moral limits in the tourism market, and namely: the market assumes it can price everything including culture and nature; the market distributes welfare through one's ability to pay rather than one's needs; and the market is structured in ways that benefit some groups more than others. The so-called solutions are compromises, and are tainted ideologically and politically. This work-in-progress is merely a starting point to a longer discussion on how narratives of balanced sustainable tourism development gloss over the contradictions in the tourism market.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TitelCAUTHE 2017: Time for Big Ideas? Re-thinking the Field for Tomorrow : Proceedings of the 27th CAUTHE Conference
    RedaktørerCraig Lee, Sebastian Filep, Julia N. Albrecht, Willem J.L. Coetzee
    UdgivelsesstedDunedin
    ForlagUniversity of Otago
    Publikationsdato2017
    Sider536-540
    ISBN (Trykt)9780473388195
    StatusUdgivet - 2017
    BegivenhedThe 27th CAUTHE Conference 2017: Time For Big Ideas? Re-thinking the Field for Tomorrow - Dunedin, New Zealand
    Varighed: 7 feb. 201710 feb. 2017
    Konferencens nummer: 27
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    Konference

    KonferenceThe 27th CAUTHE Conference 2017
    Nummer27
    Land/OmrådeNew Zealand
    ByDunedin
    Periode07/02/201710/02/2017
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