Sustainability

1 11, 2010

Combining Sustainable Tourism Concepts for more Sustainability?

By |November 1st, 2010|Ungategorized|1 Comment

Over the last decades, widespread discussions about the impacts of mass tourism and a need for new tourism experiences have led to a development of alternative tourism concepts. Alternative tourism describes all small-scale tourism concepts that minimize the negative effects of tourism, contribute to economic growth of local communities, and preserve host cultures (Neil […]

1 11, 2010

Can we dare to think that Sustainability is wrong?!

By |November 1st, 2010|Ungategorized|4 Comments

‘If the artists don’t perform the old well-worn numbers with which we are familiar, with which we associate them, the audience is muted, disappointed. New material is met, and treated with, indifference, even hostility and antagonism. What we want is familiarity; safe nostalgia. To suspend thought. To forget about today until tomorrow’ (Wheeller, 2004).

Just […]

31 10, 2010

Leave Nothing but Footprints: Mission Impossible?!

By |October 31st, 2010|India, Nepal, Regional developments|4 Comments

Mountain tourism is growing and therefore as well the environmental degradation induced by these tourists. This entry deals with the impact trekking tourists have on nature, especially in the Himalaya regions in India and Nepal. Subsequently it will be discussed which measures would help to reduce these impacts. Moreover the role of the trekking […]

25 10, 2010

Tell me what’s on your plate and I’ll tell you where you’re from!

By |October 25th, 2010|Ungategorized|6 Comments

Sustainable tourism is one of the most important trends in the tourism industry. The different forms of implementing this type of tourism are frequently being discusses as well as the question of “what is and should be sustained?” This blog entry deals with the sustaining of regional identity in association with food tourism and […]

24 09, 2010

The emergence of ‘last-chance tourism’: an opportunity or a threat?

By |September 24th, 2010|Ungategorized|6 Comments

Vanishing destinations such as the Great Barrier Reef, Maldives, Galapagos Island and polar regions provide tour operators with an opportunity to market their products with the unique selling point ‘to see it before it is gone’ tourism. Bleaching corals, melting ice caps disappearing islands and wildlife are indicators that put these destinations on the […]

24 09, 2010

Stakeholder conflict in context of forest-based tourism in Bangladesh

By |September 24th, 2010|Ungategorized|3 Comments

Forest-based tourism is an opportunity for the poor, undeveloped countries to rise up. Unfortunately the most important positive impact of it seem insignificant to the government and governmental organisations in Bangladesh, where  tourism could become an effective way of the economic upturn. Tourism development leads to the improvement of local residents’ level of life, […]

24 09, 2010

Slow Travel in a Speedy World

By |September 24th, 2010|Ungategorized|11 Comments

Within the last decades modernity has mainly been characterized by a strong acceleration “in which speed is the natural and welcome byproduct […]” (Molz, 2009). In the tourism context this became evident especially in the increase of air traffic within the last century.
While speed and mobility were connoted with positive magnitudes, slowness has […]