ABSTRACT
While many destination authorities heavily rely on tourism due to its likely effects on the generation of income and employment, conventional tourism and its company “scientism” can be a source of problems as well, particularly when they are not well planned, managed, developed, and researched. As with any “ism”, which generates its own course of “endism”, conventional tourism and its scientism have produced a set of beliefs, attitudes, and measures to explain how tourism should develop and how its research ought to be. Certainly, no “ism” is free of its costs and deficiencies. This chapter, therefore, undertakes a humanistic critique of the inherent costs and problems of conventional tourism (i.e., tourism enlargement) and its scientism.
