TY - JOUR
T1 - Authenticity, equity and sustainability in tourism
AU - Cohen, Erik
PY - 2002/8/1
Y1 - 2002/8/1
N2 - Sustainability became a leading concept in tourism development practice and research, but should be submitted to a critical examination in the context of wider theoretical and practical concerns. Three issues are considered in this paper: the possible misuse of the concept of sustainability in advertisement and as a means of legitimising takeover of control over natural sites or cultural practices of local people by state agencies or private enterprises; the interface between the discourses of authenticity and sustainability; and the problems of equity provoked by restrictions of access to valuable sites, in the name of sustainability.
AB - Sustainability became a leading concept in tourism development practice and research, but should be submitted to a critical examination in the context of wider theoretical and practical concerns. Three issues are considered in this paper: the possible misuse of the concept of sustainability in advertisement and as a means of legitimising takeover of control over natural sites or cultural practices of local people by state agencies or private enterprises; the interface between the discourses of authenticity and sustainability; and the problems of equity provoked by restrictions of access to valuable sites, in the name of sustainability.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0036974977&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09669580208667167
DO - 10.1080/09669580208667167
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AN - SCOPUS:0036974977
SN - 0966-9582
VL - 10
SP - 267
EP - 276
JO - Journal of Sustainable Tourism
JF - Journal of Sustainable Tourism
IS - 4
ER -