ABSTRACT
Calls for a political ecology of tourism were made first by Susan Stonich and Gerald Sørensen, whose talk at a Society for Applied Anthropology meeting in the early 1990s further solidified the coinage of a rather appropriate name for a field deeply linked to the need for political action and ecological impact in tourism contexts.1 Calls for political engagements with the tourism industry and with tourists themselves continued through the end of the millennium, when discussions about the various connections between globalization, tourism, and the environment began to reach their peak. By the dawn of 2000, tourism had emerged as the ‘world’s biggest industry’, the environment had become the world’s biggest ‘cause’, and the world was in a state of serious ecological crisis.
