ES295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Greenwashing, Walt Whitman Rostow, Ecotourism
17 Nov 2020
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Nature tourism: tourism focused principally on natural resources such as relatively undisturbed parks and natural areas, wetlands, wildlife reserves, and other areas of protected floras. 6 themes commonly found in ecotourism definitions: nature-based, preservation, education, sustainability, distribution of benefits, ethics/responsibility. Genuine ecotourism: experience sensitive to all 6 tenets. Greenwashing: normative tenets rarely guide operational policy and practice. Tourist: a person travelling for pleasure for a period of at least one night, but not more than one year for international tourists & 6 months for persons travelling in their own countries. Relies on numerous economic sectors: primary, secondary o tertiary. Attractions are empirical relationships between a tourist, a site & a marker. Can categorize tourist groups based on attractions. Provides long-term development opportunities: dependency theory: resources flow from poor countries to wealthy ones o rostow theory: 5 stages of economic growth a country can be placed in. Mass tourism is the worst: seasonal labour for locals is common but unreliable o.
