The Practice of Sustainable Tourism: Resolving the Paradox

by David A. Weaver

Book Overview

Sustainable tourism is a widely used term that has accumulated considerable attention from researchers and policy makers over the past two decades. However, there is still an apparently wide gap between theory and practice in the area. Recent scholarly research has tended to focus on niche areas of alternative tourism rather than address the broader issues and vagaries and paradoxes that appear to plague the broader notion of sustainable tourism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415749395
• ISBN13: 9780415749398
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"