Life Cycles and Carrying Capacities in Tourism
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Buckley, R
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2006
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If I understand correctly, Sagar Singh argues that the concept of carrying capacity has the potential to be a key unifying theme in tourism research. He thinks that it was introduced too early to be accepted, and abandoned before its potential was realised. And he argues that the concept of a stable carrying capacity can be reconciled with the concept of an evolving destination area, by subdividing carrying capacities into different types and timescales.
His rationale, which I fully endorse, is that tourism research is far too heavily influenced by postmodernism, post-structuralism and similar constructs in the academic ...
View more >If I understand correctly, Sagar Singh argues that the concept of carrying capacity has the potential to be a key unifying theme in tourism research. He thinks that it was introduced too early to be accepted, and abandoned before its potential was realised. And he argues that the concept of a stable carrying capacity can be reconciled with the concept of an evolving destination area, by subdividing carrying capacities into different types and timescales. His rationale, which I fully endorse, is that tourism research is far too heavily influenced by postmodernism, post-structuralism and similar constructs in the academic social sciences, which have little to do with the realities of tourism either as a commercial business or an individual activity. Selling goods and services to people travelling for social reasons – it’s not that complicated a concept, surely.
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View more >If I understand correctly, Sagar Singh argues that the concept of carrying capacity has the potential to be a key unifying theme in tourism research. He thinks that it was introduced too early to be accepted, and abandoned before its potential was realised. And he argues that the concept of a stable carrying capacity can be reconciled with the concept of an evolving destination area, by subdividing carrying capacities into different types and timescales. His rationale, which I fully endorse, is that tourism research is far too heavily influenced by postmodernism, post-structuralism and similar constructs in the academic social sciences, which have little to do with the realities of tourism either as a commercial business or an individual activity. Selling goods and services to people travelling for social reasons – it’s not that complicated a concept, surely.
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Journal Title
Tourism Recreation Research
Volume
31
Issue
2
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© 2006 Tourism Recreation Research. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
Subject
Tourism