ABSTRACT

A key characteristic of our argument, as Figure 10.1 emphasises, is the need to understand sustainability within a broad context. We have argued that such a context provides a richer basis for understanding and analysing the emergence of these new forms of tourism; in a nutshell, sustainability and new tourism are intimately related. It is also suggested throughout the book that sustainability as a key word is open to a wide variety of competing meanings. At its most basic, the perception and understanding of sustainability for the residents of the leafy suburbs of Vancouver, London or Melbourne is considerably different from that of local tourist destination communities in Bali, Bolivia or Uganda. Moreover, as has been suggested, sustainability is a conduit, as it were, of power; and power is reflected in and transmitted through notions of sustainability, as both Figure 10.1 and Table 10.1 seek to illustrate through examples.