The debate continues!
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>Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 11:18:19 +0100
>Subject: Re: Tourism
>From: Graham Gardner <[log in to unmask]>
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>At 06:00 PM 5/4/99 +0100, you wrote:
>>I like this succinct debate. My contribution is:
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>>Surely the worst thing is 'development tourism'. What can we do to put a
>>stop to that?
>>>Mike Kesby
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>If you mean it literally, I could suggest several rather inviting ways...!
>But as a serious response, I would suggest a problematising of what the
>term 'development' (including 'sustainable development) actually means.
>What do different socio-economic and cultural groups mean by the term?
>
>In response to an earlier response (sorry, I forget who), which talked
>about sustainablity in terms of the environment - yes, I meant in those
>terms, but also in terms of cultural identity and quality of life (the two,
>of course, are linked).
>
>Graham Gardner
>IGES University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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>>>From: David Crouch <[log in to unmask]>
>>>To: Graham Gardner <[log in to unmask]>
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>>>Well, either claim is absurdly reductionist and deserves investigaiton.
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>>>Tourism means lots of things, in any stage of `development`, and so can
>>>have lots of different effects. Sustainability is equally slippery, but
>>>can be of positive value in the ways to which you are alluding.
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>>.>>very best,
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>>>Prof David Crouch, Anglia Univ
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>>>On Tue, 04 May 1999 15:34:53 +0100 Graham Gardner <[log in to unmask]>
>>.>wrote:
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>>> Neither do I - in fact, I'd argue that tourism was a major OBSTACLE to
>>> development (that is, development defined apart from the requirements of
>>> tourists and capital...)
>>>
>>> Graham Gardner
>>> IGES University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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>>>
>>>
>>> At 05:12 PM 5/1/99 +0200, you wrote:
>>> >In reply to this very brief statement by Robert Morgan, my answer is
>that I
>>> >do not agree.
>>> >
>>> >Michael Davie
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>>> >>From: "Robert Morgan" <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> >>The tourism is the only way to development of the third world.
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Dr Neil Carr
Dept. of Business and Finance
University of Hertfordshire
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