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SfAA 2002
Session Abstract
Mass tourism, as understood by tourism researchers and
anthropologists alike, has often had negative impacts
on both the environment and on the affected destination
communities. In the past decade or two, alternative
forms of travel such as heritage tourism, cultural
travel and ecotourism have been conceived and
implemented in a reactive attempt to alleviate impacts
on host communities. In recent years there have even
been a series of innovative nuances of alternative
travel that are beginning to be implemented and which
are serving to proactively instigate cultural and
environmental conservation on the part of both the host
and guest communities.
The utilization of tourism as a mechanism for social
change is an emerging topic virtually unexplored by
anthropologists, but the implications of applying
tourism are potentially immense. Political tourism,
health travel and advocacy travel are only a few
identified methods for enabling tourism to be used as a
tool for empowering participants to work for change on
behalf of host communities. This session will explore
the nascent topic of researchers, environmentalists,
activists and educators who have applied the seemingly
boundless potential of tourism to work for social
change or environmental preservation.
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