ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the extent to which advances from organisational science that advocate ‘the project’ as the principal unit of analysis are able to contribute to our understanding of current and future practices of sustainable tourism. Sustainable tourism remains one of the most enigmatic concepts in tourism management. Although an agreed meta-statement remains elusive, a de facto understanding has emerged among practitioners and scholars on the basic conceptual building blocks as well as the guiding ethos. Projects are therefore common forms of socio-economic organisation and of self-regulation among the multiple communities of practice that understand and use the principles, practices, and technologies of project management. Project-based learning points to the considerable importance in contemporary economy and society of knowledge creation in the context of application. The nature of the inter-connections among the community of practice focused on sustainable tourism are far more intricate than one may even expect upon fi rst inspection.
